/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3542019
>A BVM, I assume?
Not even. PVM-20M2MDU, a medical variant of the 20M2 and a 600TVL tube at that. Rather common all in all. Lower color palette consoles(NES/SMS/Genesis at times/GB/GBC/etc) give some crazy stupid contrast when it comes to scanlines.

>I haven't seen "TVL" before. What is it?
A measure of horizontal sharpness. "TV Lines" or "Lines of horizontal resolution". It comes down to how fine the phosphor pattern on the inside of the tube(the bits that actually light up to create the image on the screen) is, refered to as dot or stripe pitch depending on the tube. and how sharply the electron gun of the TV/Monitor can focus. Consumer sets tend to have tubes with higher dot pitches(and as such, a more coarse image).
To be blunt, it's how many alternating black and white lines the monitor can draw horizontally and still resolve each one of them separate from the other. The highest you're going to see if 800 on M4s, L4s, and L5s, and the lowest being 250 on some 5'' and 8'' models. Older stuff tends to be lower all in all, floating around 450-600 for the most part

Most BVMs, meaning the larger (14''+), aren't going to be below 800TVL or so no matter if they're from the 80s or 8 years ago. Even the 9'' models have 450TVL in their normal aspect ratio.
The highest you're going to see is 1000TVL, which is absolutely insane in terms of sharpness.

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>>2849272
>What game's that?
Keio Flying Squadron

>I'm going to have to buy a save RAM cart (sigh... those are like $40 on ebay right now
From what I've heard, that's about what they go for, whether it's the holidays or not.

I decided to just say fuck it, and grab a Mega ED during Black Friday. It's able to act as a RAM cart, so that helps to make up the price gap between it and the EDMD.

I actually did see a Sega CD for sale locally some months back, but it had a shitty Genesis paired with it(was still looking for a good Model 1 then) and they were asking way too much.

Should have tried making an offer on it, but oh well.

>>2849285
Power cables, at least as of right now, aren't really anything I'm concerned about. I have 2 "Model 1" styled power bricks that I can use for the Genny+CD.