/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5971649
Such a stark difference

>>5091184
>i'd really only call NTSC filter "essential" in cases where you're emulating a machine that outright relied on NTSC signal wackiness to fake color from patterns of black+white dots.

That happens more often than you think.

And besides, dithering was used even up to the early 00s to fake more colours.

>>4901067

>modding your NES for RGB

Not even once.

>>4336493
RGB Scart and expensive upscalers will only amount to the games looking like they do on unfiltered emulator output.

Lot of games actually use composite to mask things or add more colours or do transparency, using RGB ends up detrimental for those.

>>4021806
>The only time I know of where a developer states they intended the dithering to be blurred was that Lion King video.

CGA games nearly all took advantage of composite dithering. Sonic 1 and Streets of Rage 2 took advantage of it specifically. C64 had a dozen different software techniques for doing multicolour hi-res, many which relied on the RF or Composite signal blurring the video. But even normal games tended to use combinations of colours that ended up better looking due to composite blurring.

>>3616239
because he did not buy into the rgb meme.

>>3263587
>Playing on a PVM/BVM with scart cables and original hardware is objectively the best way to play retro games.

You are objectively missing out on all the things that the coders and artists did to take advantage of the composite video signal to produce more detail and more colour.

Composite on a shadowmask is the best choice since games were DESIGNED with those in mind.

>>2881406

>Developers don't take into consideration the type of display that 90% of their consumers will be viewing their product on

KEK

sometimes they're necessary

"Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design."

Pic related, obviously. We have a tendency to think of our hobbies as less honorable somehow, as those of the past, but can we not begin to see, through the profusion of trifling entertainments to which we cannot stoop, that one day the deepness of our play will be apparent - and why then cannot we begin to feel that now?

Since some games like chrono trigger were made with the blur of crts in mind, does that mean I have to use lower quality cables like composite to get the most accurate colors and picture as possible, or will it be fine as long as it's a crt? Kinda new to crts.

Pic related. I don't want to end up with something that looks like the left.

>>1852560
Whoops!

filters can be alright

>>1654873
>Filters will always be shit by definition.