/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1586424
Ironically and coincidentally enough, my Sony Trinitron just bit the bucket today, the color amplifier (or adjustment) and the v-hold both shit the bed at once. Hope you can figure out whats wrong, it may help my case as well.

>>685956

The abstract techniques used to do that emulation are definitely part of(the cross-hatched pattern in stippling gets me stiff) but the main thing is that it makes everything crisp and clear, with strong contrast due to the limited palette. Makes me think of those baby books of black-and-white geometric patterns, do they still make those? It appeals directly to a very basic and primitive part of our brains.

It also changes simplicity from a virtue to a necessity, which makes at least 90% of things better. Every scrap of detail has to be examined and evaluated for whether it's necessary and functional, so you end up with a highly purified image that's all signal, no noise, like a guy upthread was saying about how walls with shit hidden behind them could be just a few pixels off in sprites, but in modern 3D games they pretty much have to make the whole thing cracked and crumbly for you to notice over all the fluffy detail in the level.

>>434992
I'm with you, $20 is reasonable. I remember when Pokemon red and blue came out and these were selling for well SIGNIFICANTLY MORE. The same thing happened when they announced you could use Gamecube controllers with the Wii: game stores that had been selling Gamecubes for $30 started selling just the controller for $25