/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2502830
Image related.

Older games are often in 240p - 320x240 (effectively, but it's more complicated than measuring in pixels) 240p does not fit neatly into 1080p on your LCD, for one. As in, you can't just multiply the dimensions by an integer and make them fit. Which means the image gets stretched weirdly, and objects like sprites move funny and the whole image looks weird/wrong. Most LCD's do a shit job of scaling things up, and even expensive scaler boxes can have issues.

CRT's display images at native resolution, ideally. Added to which, they're are brighter, warmer, and have far better contrast. They also have less delay and ghosting. The games we're talking about were meant to be seen on CRT's, and look nicer that way. Image related - even if it's a software shader used on an LCD, it highlights the warmth, halation and resolution issues, if not the scaling per se.

Some anons here will tell you expensive OLED screens are just as good as CRT, but broadcast TV people can tell you this isn't true. The potential is there, but it hasn't quite been realised yet. Added to which longevity used to be a real issue for OLED. And these are the really expensive broadcast standard OLED sets we're talking about.

I personally use a lightweight frontend called IV-Play that just lists all my games and displays title screens. I also strongly recommend using the HLSL post-processing options in your mame.ini. Even a lot of hardcore shader haters say the MAME filtering does the originals justice.

I've been enjoying the Sengoku games lately. Pretty good beat 'em ups with transformations and different weapon pickups.

>>1502017
The filtering in MAME is set by editing the mame.ini file, which should be in the same folder as mame.exe. You just paste the settings in the post over the settings in your mame.ini. If you fuck something up, you can just rename/delete mame.ini, and mame.exe will generate a clean one next time you run it.