/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4021979
... to how it looks after the console outputs it. Note that the C64 did not do RGB, it had RF, composite, and Y/C output (this latter used for monitors, but it is pretty much the same as S-Video that came later).

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>>3144301
You kind of do need that for C64 though, and VICE had such a filter ages before Mame started dicking with HLSL CRT filters.

>>2823062
... to the live version

And if a game does not take the output aspect ratio into consideration when having its artwork created, then it is the artists/developers fault, not the CRTs. Capcom for example had to draw everything elongated due to the non-square pixels of the CPS1-2-3 systems. When they ported those games to the Saturn, all the graphics ended up slightly wider as the machine didn't have such a resolution.

>>2704450
C64 palette was one of those things that looked way better on an actual TV.