/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4458270
Currently?
Black curved Sony Trinitron with SCART (RGB).

I've played on an LCD since the 70s

A 20 inch Apex and and an old Zenith with wood grain
I plan on picking up something better eventually

19" Sylvania Superset from 1984, RF-only. Probably not an ideal setup for most people no matter what, but this is the most fun for me to use. I own a PVM and at home have a 26" Mitsubishi with S-Video that I've played on for years, and this is my favorite set out of all of them.
It's hard to explain and I'm still gonna sound like a dumbass hipster but I'll try anyway. It's not nostalgia because I never grew up with anything this old. It just hits all the right spots for me, the excellent external design with woodgrain sides, super low hour tube with like-new picture, the tuner makes RF look better than on any other TV I've seen, it fits snug on top of my fridge with the mushroom stand, I just... I just fucking like the thing, ok?

>>4458270
Too many broken ones. My house is a CRT asylum. Between monitors and TVs I can count at least 7. But they're all capable of RGB so hey.

2005 Samsung SDTV with component and S-video input.

>>4458513
n00b

28 here and counting...

27” Toshiba cinema series with component

27" citizen that my parents threw out when i left for college

it was getting discolouration in the corners, but still

I still have my 21" Admiral branded TV as my main TV. I have no idea what or who Admiral is, but it takes S-video at best.

A giant Philips piece of shit I got for free. I want to get a smaller one with a square screen at some point. I swear the image comes through tilted to one side

>>4458305
patrician taste

This is as good as it gets

>>4459065

>>4459025
do you play on any real consoles or just emulate?

>>4458270
A bog standard consumer slot mask CRT, and a 40" Trinitron
Unfortunately I found out the Trinitron I got is actually a HDCRT, which means up-scaling artifacts, and about 30ms of lag.
I wouldn't care about the lag, except for the fact that it means no lightgun games.

Panasonic BT-1390YN. It's probably the best looking shadow mask CRT I've seen in person.

>>4458497
that's a great photo

it somehow makes the RF look good

Apex 14" shit tube with composite and mono sound

Wega Trinitron KV-24FS120

PVM 20M2U

>>4458270
This model; not actually mine, though. It's nice; have had it for many years. Lately it takes a few power button presses to get it to turn on and it's worrying me.

>>4458270
I'm too lazy to fish around the back but I have never owned a flatscreen TV.

I have a CRT I use normally and have always used.

It's nothing special, I notice no difference between mine and other displays other than resolution, but

This TV is mine.

It's a pretty late gen thing, though. Rather big, rather modern. Probably made in the late 90s or early 00s. Still. It's mine.

For it, I like the old analogy Top Gear made about a bunch of awful four-door supercars once
>It's awful and loud and annoying most of the time, but if anyone took it away from you, you'd kill them!

>>4458270
Most of the time I played on various Commodore Monitors. But mainly the 1084 series that originally was intended for the Amiga. A played almost all my retro systems on these monitors, because the image (despite the small screen) was just so much better than most of my (admittedly cheap) TVs.

I started gaming on a C64 (not counting the east german computer that I never owned myself) using a worn out wood grain east german black and white TV with failing phosphor, so I had to darken the room to see shit. My first "western" TV weren't that good either. You know RF is shit especially if you want to see text on the screen.

My first Commodore Monitor (I guess it was a dedicated C64 Monitor like the Commodore 1901) was way better. But it looked like shit when I got the Amiga (the Amiga could only connected to these via Composite) and the built in speaker was just awful. And just like that I switched to an 1084 and used the C64, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, Playstation, Playstation 2, Dreamcast and Game Cube on it.

Too bad my last 1084-S (maybe my third of that series) died some years ago.

Exchanged a 24" Sony CRT for a 19" Belinea - not really a good "deal" but I do not have a use/room for the Sony and playing low-res PC stuff on the Belinea is a blast.
I wish there was a 20" version of the 1085. I had former and it was excellent but so small.

>>4459713
that looks like shit. JVC has better shadow masks

>>4460506
>being this butthurt

I used to have a sony or something. It was really big, heavy, had s-video, and had insanely good super loud and bassy speakers on it.

I had to give it to a thrift shop because it was too heavy and big when I was moving. Now all the thrift shops around here have a strict no CRT policy because they are too big and heavy and nobody wants them anymore.

Feels bad.

14" RF when I was a kid, then we got a sharp 27" with composite.

Now I have a 32" Sony with component and s-video

>>4458270
All sorts. I got my first TV in 78 and used my parents TVs before that. Now I have a few late 90's TVs. All multi system with either RGB or component.

I have 3. Ikegmai HTM-2050RA1, Panasonic BT-H1700p, and a Sony CPD-G220R.

>>4460514
>being in denial you own an inferior brand

>>4460294
Commodore 1084 monitors are better than most sony pvmemes anyway

I have this Zenith TV that's pretty big and heavy. The sound is a bit messed up bit it's holding up... for now.

I'm looking for a Japanese TV because I'm planning to get a Famicom and I heard Famicoms dont work on American TVs due to region formatting.

>>4460778
I also need to look in other house for another one manufactured by Sharp, but unknown model.

>>4461770
Nice sets, just don't start on the 600TVL horseshit :)

>>4460506
You're a retard. Most of the professional level Panasonic monitors were re-branded JVC's. They're quite literally the same monitor with a different brand label.

>>4458270
Mitsubishi cs2611r

I use a pretty comfy but sort of shitty 13in 2001 Orion that I found on the curb but that still works great, though it only has AV inputs. I'm looking into one with S-Video or SCART, though.

>>4463264
>orion
dang man, i had one of those that was so bad the phosphors literally burned out just from normal use

XM29 Plus

>>4458270
These days i have a 2 15khz sets. A 27" Sony and a 20" LG. LG looks way better (shadow mask > aperture grille). Both running component.

>>4463775
Patrician taste

>>4462809
>most
not the picture he posted. looks like shit compared to JVC

Sony Trinitron PVM-9041QM, its only 9 inches but its worth the RGB

>>4458497
Great comb filter.

>>4463796
I was the one who posted it, you fucking troglodyte. The Panasonic BT-1390YN is a re-badge of the JVC BM-H1300SU. Literally the exact same hardware.

They have the same internals. The same bezel. The same color scheme. The same service manual.

Why must you speak so confidently when you're so absolutely wrong?

>>4462161
They are 600 TVLines. I have the box next to me retard.

>>4463525
noice

>>4464156
>being this butthurt over owning an inferior brand

>>4464156
that other anon is just some dumbfuck

>>4464167
I'm just calling you out for being wrong, anon.

>>4464225
being wrong never felt so right. enjoy your shitasonic

I have two olympus sets, oev203 and oev143... I got the oev143 new in box.

They are great but I always felt they were overkill for playing anything below psx, n64 etc. Colours of course are great, but the scanlines just are too pronounced.

I recently got a snesc mini and must say with a good flatscreen, I can`t notice any lag at all... I even have the feeling, it has less lag then emulating via wii onto a crt. Also using the crt-filter I realized again how a little blurriness is important for the overall picture.

I also got a low hour grundig shadowmask set that still has the right amount of blurr, but I will mostly keep using it for watching SD movies and series.

>>4464845
Not even him, and damn you're a faggot.

>>4464160
Sure, now have a look at a real 600-line set. The spacing is waaaaay higher on the 1084's. And not just waaaay higher but like waaaaaaaaaaaaay higher. About double, in fact. And when you turn them on next to a 600TVL monitor, using the same source, they look like about 300TVL - which don't mistake me is awesome, and twice that of a consumer 34cm set. So yeah, that.

>>4459073
I like how the faggot you quoted keeps posting about his shitty clone consoles because it's cheaper and he doesn't want to shell out the money for real ones, yet he still has all those flash carts and a fucking wondermega in that photo.

PVM-14M4 800 lines of feelsgoodman

>>4465239
if you have kirby superstar for snes, try comparing it to the snes classic using the samurai minigame

it's pretty close but actually there is some lag, enough that I can't win at that minigame

>>4463525
Nice. I've got a XM37+ and a Mitsubishi Megaview 29 (well 2 but one doesn't work)

>>4465543
There's multiple variants of 1084. Some of them have 600 lines. You're wrong.

>>4458270
A really shitty Panasonic 21 inch. Has 1 RF in back, and 1 composite with audio left and right in front. With a headphone jack. The picture is blurry af and is dark, even after doing my best to adjust settings to solve this.

I only use it when my friends are over because they are sensitive to input lag and complain if we use the OLED.

I am not sensitive to input lag though, so when it is just me alone, I play on my OLED through an RGB SCART to HDMI converter/upscaler. The picture is really clean and the colors are beautiful.

Pic related is not mine, but is the exact same model. (cant be bothered to pull it out of the closet to get a pic, that thing is heavy like a pig)

>>4462834
>playing n64 in 480i

>>4465239
>scanline filters on flat panels

Oh wow

>>4468194
What upscaler, anon?

>>4463842
>having to put up with a 9 inch screen that probably costs a hundred bucks just for RGB
Ah man, Yurotard land is wonderful. 32 inch Trinitrons with RGB for 5 bucks a pop.

>>4462161
>>4465543
Fuck off retard.

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_1084

Obviously not better than VGA CRT Trinitron though.

>>4469615
>implying PAL is any good

>>4469546
This one. Its no Framemeister, but games still look really good through it. The difference between composite and this thing is instantly noticeable (especially on Genesis). It still blows me away how much better Genesis looks through RGB. PS1 also is dramatically improved, especially in color accuracy.

And instead of $370 (like the Framemeister), this thing only cost me $35.

Only down side is it gets a little hot after a while, so maybe dont leave it plugged in when not using it. Also in 1080p mode the lag is pretty unusable, but in 720p mode, it isnt really noticeable (to me anyway). But the visual difference between 720 & 1080 on this arent really any different anyway. So just leave it in 720p mode.

Toshiba 34HF81 720p widescreen.. It looks great and it's huge but the speakers don't work. I have it running through an amp and some nice monitor speakers.

Trouble is, it's obviously got some input lag, because light gun games don't work.

Ultimately I think I'd be better off with a 27 or 32. Good thing they are abundant and cheap/free around here.

>>4470250
That's a 1080i TV.

It upscales everything to 1080i. The image processing fucks up light games

>>4469694
You don't have to use PAL, most yuro SCART TVs are perfectly happy with 480i/240p RGB.

>>4469981
Mind opening it up and taking pics of the board? I want to see what chips it uses.

>>4469694
>implying PAL/NTSC affects RGB

>>4470414

>>4470419
I think he may be referring to PAL being 50hz and NTSC being 60hz

>>4461770
Only if you're counting those 9" ones. Otherwise you're wrong, only the really early, JVC-made Commodore 1080 monitors really have an amazing dotpitch (0.31mm between dots). All the other one have a way lower dotpitch (0.42mm) compared to even those mid-80s PVMs (0.25mm).
In other words my '92 C= 1085S-D2 (which has the same tube as the 1084S-D1) is in no way superior to my '85 PVM-1390QM.

>>4461770
Only if you're counting those 9" ones. Otherwise you're wrong, only the really early, JVC-made Commodore 1070 monitors really have an amazing dotpitch (0.31mm between dots). All the other one have a way lower dotpitch (0.42mm) compared to even those mid-80s PVMs (0.25mm).
In other words my '92 C= 1085S-D2 (which has the same tube as the 1084S-D1) is in no way superior to my '85 PVM-1390QM.

>>4458497
Nice, but the color convergence is going off on it.
If you're up to it, and feel confident touching the neck of a tube while it's on, get a mirror and adjust the convergence rings so you don't get that chromatic aberration looking crap on the bottom text.

>>4470452
thanks

>>4458270
This thing. I was stuck with it until 2006 as my parents go at least a decade before upgrading their TVs.

>>4470523
I'm counting all of them. The image on a PVMeme is overrated, I prefer how the colors on a commodore look. It's not all about numbers

>>4458270

BVM20F1E because it was cheap here (~$60). I'm not meming, just enjoying the damn CRT for what it is.

>>4471687
Now that's subjective. Especially when things like color rendition can adjusted.

>>4458270
I just got a 13 inch durabrand from goodwill and unfortunately seems like I need the remote for AV mode...

>>4473208
this set up needs some mounted dildos

>>4472331
You can't make a PVM look anything like the colors of a commodore. PVMs are objectively worse

>>4459073
>implying those clone consoles are emulators

>>4461813
You just tune to channel 95 or 96 and Famicoms work perfectly over RF, I do it every day and have done so on many different US NTSC TV sets. Importing a Japanese TV is ludicrous, it would be cheaper to buy an AV Famicom. If your TV doesn't play nice with channel 95 or 96, you can hook the Famicom to a VCR and use the tuner on that.

>>4473208
>>4473221
Update: Remote App on the Play Store worked :O

>>4469618
>https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_1084

wow, a webpage that says something! It must be right.

Look at it this way. I have a PVM-14M4A with it's 800TVL tube. The dot pitch of that is 0.18mm, or as good as it gets, AFAIK. The dot pitch of the 1084 listed on that page of yours says 0.42mm. Assuming the PVM is slightly smaller physically than the 1084s (which it is) you'll get about 400TVL at absolute best. I'd go with about 300TVL, personally.

TL:DR the numbers on that webpage are screwy, and can't be right. Whoever wrote them was either measuring something wrong, or is full of it.

Enjoy!

>>4470457
>I think he may be referring to PAL being 50hz and NTSC being 60hz

Not involved in this yet, but wtf do you think that has to do with anything?

>>4474650
oh, and if you go digging, note that there's a misprint in the PVM M-series spec pamphlet, because the 14M2's are listed at the same dot pitch as the 14M4's, but the M4's are finer.

>>4473223
>objectivly

I think you mean subjectivly

I use a KV-36FS13 for all my SD needs. I have a few VGA monitors for PC shit as well, my current best one being an LG 915FT+ but soon I'll have an electron blue iv 19".

stupid question but still

why do all of you seem to prefer curved crts to flatscreen crts?

>>4476209
curves are sexier.

>>4476209
less geometry and convergence issues is usually why.

>>4458270
Sony wega flat screen with component and 3 RCA ports.

Picture is perfect, looks good in my study. Found on the side of the road near my house.

>>4476215
Noriko a CUTE!

>>4474650
>>4474674
You're a sour loser.
Must suck having not money to buy things and having to autistically defend everything you own to be able to sleep at night.

I don't even believe you have a PVM. No, a picture with timestamp won't make me think otherwise.

you people are such autistic fucking losers
>hurr durr I have this piece of garbage serial number 2857248572 from 1982
>blurr ddrururr I have a better piece of garbage serial number 985429729 from 1981
all of you should get in a car together and drive into a lake

>>4476209
CRT's are supposed to be curved to keep the image in focus uniformly across the entire screen. It's like a big glass lens. Flat screen CRT's use some sort of trickery to achieve this without the curvature, but it usually results in less-than-perfect geometry.

Curved glass also provides more structural support, meaning flat screen CRTs generally had to have thicker glass, and were much heavier as a result.

Oh, and a lot of later flat screen CRT's were EDTVs which did some terrible kind of digital to analog conversion, which adds input delay to the equation.

>>4476721
You've essentially described /vr/ as a whole, why are you here in the first place?

>>4476826
It's pretty obvious, he's here to get (you)s, like the one you gave him.

Sony Trinitron KV-27FV300

Just picked it up yesterday for free

Cheap 2003 14" Orion TV/VCR combo. Sound is shit, but at least it supports RGB.

>>4474650
There are 2 variations of dot pitch for 1084s. One with 400 TVL and one with 600 TVL. There isn't one as low as 300.

>>4476685
>You're a sour loser.
Nice riff, alternative facts notwithstanding. Where do children like you come from?

No, don't answer, it was a rhetorical question. You're confusing and boring.

>>4477495
Ok, better. Do you have any information on the dot pitch of a 600TVL model, though? And why does that page anon listed before say both 0.42mm and 600TVL? The four or five i've seen recently definitely have the 0.42mm pitch - or at least one significantly larger than a 600TVL PVM, which i'll grant *might* still put them as high as 400TVL. I'll have to maintain that the 300TVL I guesstimated is closer to 400 than 600 is, whichever way you slice it :)

I've never tried to photograph the dot pitch of a CRT, though if it's possible to do so with a rule in front, perhaps we should try. I'm away for a week later today though, but i'm keen in the new year if anyone else is.

>>4458270
I love it for rockband, no lag and works with hdmi

>>4477681
For which autism i should probably apologise, lol. I'm a CRT fetishist, i guess. Out and proud. I just keep hearing the claims of 600TVL, with nothing to back it up beyond contradictory reports on the web.

>>4464160
That anon is claiming to have to box next to him. Does it say 600TVL? Does it also say 0.42mm dot pitch though? Because one of those numbers isn't right, and i know which one i'd guess at.

>>4477689
>no lag
All HD CRT TVs have some lag from the scaler.

>>4458270
a Trinitron KV-36FV310

>>4477681
>>4477751
The 600TVL claim come from thet C64 wiki alone. All the reliable information sources (big book of amiga hardware, the commodore monitor list...) mention the 0.42mm dot pitch (or 0.41mm for one specific model, the 1084-D) of these 1084 monitors.

Is there a guide out there or something that'll give me some good info for getting CRT's?

>>4458270
I loved Magnetbox brand. It was awesome but not as big brand as Sony etc.

>>4478103
what scaler? I'm not scaling anything. I'm sending it a 480p signal over hdmi and component, why would there be any lag?

>>4478382
look on facebook marketplace, search for TVs and look at free shit, people are always giving them away

>>4478542
I'm more of a Panaphonics guy

>>4478542
>>4478743
>he doesn't have a Sorny Tranitron
LOL
O
L

>>4478768
My tranny died years ago

Zenith and Daewoo.
People can't understand how awesome daewoo once was

currently, 90s Zenith, good blacks, rare for Zenith

>>4478671
It scales everything to either 540p or 1080i. If you want a display that handles 480p directly you need either a professional multiformat monitor, or a PC monitor, consumer HD CRTs always scale.

>>4479202
there are very rare and odd 480p capable EDTVs.

>>4478382
Craigslist, yard sales, the side of the road, family members or friends wanting to get rid of one
As far as being choosy, Sony, Toshiba and Samsung are pretty good brands generally. If you want something that goes into more detail look in the catalog and head over to the /CRT/ thread. There's some pastebins in the OP.

A Toshiba 28Z44B that was given to me. This was literally the best pic I could find online but it's very nice.

>>4458497
Your consoles look very clean. But come on. R fucking F only? At least get composite.

>>4458270
We used to have a big fat CRT that even had component ports. It was big and fat and I think we threw it out when we moved. As nice as it was I dont have room for it in my room anyway. Now I have a pretty standard 19" Toshiba CRT with a DVD reader built-in that I will never and have never used. I only use it for Melee practice, I either emulate or hook up my PS2/Wii to my BenQ monitor with some chinkshit component to HDMI upscaler from Amazon. I also have a PC/Wii U/Switch but obviously those just go straight into the monitor

>>4459025
>clone consoles
>flash carts for all 3
>no real consoles

>>4462834
>>4469540
Thats a wii running the gamecube zelda collectiors edition
You can tell by the icon colors. On a side note the majoras mask version is laggier than the n64 one because it doesnt emulate the expansion packs expanded memory. The rom especially runs slower than the original cartridge when ran on a real n64.

>>4459025
>chinkshit consoles AND snes controllers

>>4458270
is this a steal for 225$? it's a bvm not sure the exact model 14in

>>4481643
Not a BVM
Not a steal at that price

>>4481673
what you think is a fair price, I want to haggle this guy

Paid $175 for my first tv. Back in the 90s sometime. It was a Sharp. Only had RF. Was a good heap of shit. Used it for Sega and then PS1.

>>4481716
>fair price
I paid the equivalent of $13 for my BVM-20F1E and $8 for my 27" Profeel so probably nothing.

That said your market is clearly overinflated and meme-driven so maybe 50 bucks, being generous?

>>4481757
yeah it's pretty pricey here, most people try to charge 100+ for shit CRT here as well. hopefully this guy will bite. thank you anon

I used to have a 21" trinitron for my NES, SNES, PS1 and Saturn, but I gave all that stuff away and switched to emulating games on my laptop and using 23", 43" and 55" LED and OLED screens. Playing retro games never felt so comfortable before.

Inb4 input lag, image stretching etc. I'm not a speedrunner, I play my games in 4:3 without any filters and I work hard so the last thing I want to do after work is fuck with wires, carts, retro hardware that may or may not cause problems etc.

>>4481757
>I paid the equivalent of $13 for my BVM-20F1E and $8 for my 27" Profeel so probably nothing.
you must have gotten one years and years ago before e-celebs and hipsters fucked the market over

>>4482093
The market is only ruined in the US.
Contrary to popular belief of US citizens, the US is not the whole world.

>>4482093
Last year on eBay, BIN

I'm a lucky sonofabitch it's true but plenty here have scored them for free recently too.

>>4482135
I'm talking specifically about PVMs and BVMs which are costly no matter where you are. And I'm Canadian.

>>4482152
>PVMs and BVMs which are costly no matter where you are
Nope. Last time I bought a bunch of them for 12€. Two PVMs and two other professional CRTs.
They are hard to come by as they are literary trashed, but if you do they are always cheap because people here aren't into the PVM/BVM meme. Probably because you can get +30 inch Trinitrons with RGB for free even.

>>4482152
I've got over 20 now and paid in total less than a single clapped out BVM-20 generally goes for on NA eBay.

Over here in the UK it's just a case of keeping one's ear to the ground and moving quickly when one appears.

>>4482152

Lol nope, you're just too close to US. I got 2 of these for free when I was interested in this, you can still find these in garbage nowadays where I live, I even thought about collecting few and selling them to US, but shipping would be crazy expensive.

>>4482152
Depend on where you're getting it. There are still studios using them and giving away the ones they don't use anymore.
I bought one 2 month ago for less than 50€ from someone who actually work for on of the national TV channels and used an it for his personal studio (it's an older mid 1980s model that's now harder to come by, but it's still capable of displaying 600TVL) and he told me how there are still many in use where he works (though they're getting replaced more and more over time).
>>4482154
It's starting to get pricier because muh retro gaymen monitor but they usualy don't sell them. The exception being Kx-27 monitors, those alway sold for around 50€ here, even before the whole retro gaymen craze (bought mine for that price).

>>4481643
so for a US buyer, Is 225$ good for a 13 inch pvm ? if not what would be? this is the only thing in my local area I could find. I'll try thrift shops and Goodwill's for Sony brands if this isn't worth it

>>4482181
>It's starting to get pricier because muh retro gaymen monitor but they usualy don't sell them. The exception being Kx-27 monitors, those alway sold for around 50€ here, even before the whole retro gaymen craze (bought mine for that price).
We don't really have much that retro craze here. Specially about PVM/BVMs, as I said, probably because people who even are into the retro craze, prefer bigger Trinitrons that already have RGB also over smaller PVM/BVMs.
But there are still plenty of places cleaning out their old CRTs, usually they go on sale in bulk or literary to recyclers. So when you shout out you pick them up for free, you get more offers even because it's cheaper for them to get rid of them as when you sell them, specially for anything more then a few eur, they might stay on sale for a while.

Philips magnavox 27 ms3404/17 is my main tv and my favorite.
Sony kv 27fv17 which is nice for 6th gen and up but it's flat screen so the fro is a little off.
I also have 2 pvms a Panasonic bt-m1310 and a Sony 1341, the Sony gets used. I just need to get rid of the Panasonic pvm and the Sony consumer set.

>>4482206
the model number is
PVM-14L2

>>4482310
Merry Christmas anon, I wouldn't pay more than $125 for a 13 inch monitor. I also wouldn't buy in to the pvm meme if I were you but I didn't listen to the anons telling me not to buy one either. Just get a nice sized consumer set with svideo or component and you should be good to go.

>>4482317
Just haggled him down to 100$ I think i will just bite the bullet the pay the man, Merry Christmas bro

>>4459073
Both. I enjoy emulating, especially MAME, NeoGeo, and those obscure systems that I cannot afford. Playing on real hardware is also a great experience, since I find it satisfying when I feel like a game I can just plug in a cartridge, turn on a system, and be directly in a gaame without any system-on splash screen or tech logos.


>>4465554
The Super Retro Trio was my best option to play my NES games I kept since it was $50. A NES in my area goes for $110-$135USD. As for the flash carts, they are sourced from China for their low price, which has been reported to damage consoles, so if they damage the Super Retro Trio, I would not be too distraught. Good eye to see the WonderMega, I love its looks and fancy motorized door.


>>4481361
I also have two of these monitors, GDM FW-900, for my computer. It is able to support the resolutions of my Xbox 360. Sadly I can only use one at a time because my desk is only rated to support the weight of just one. Also, I love Candy Cane, I bought her games.


>>4481375
I have to settle for cheap stuff from China because I don't earn enough. While I would definitely want to play on the original systems, they have just gotten too costly and I can't really tell the difference to the Chinese stuff unless I really focus on sensing it. The SNES controllers there are actually Genesis controllers, they are just shaped like SNES controllers. They came with the Super Retro Trio, and only the start and select buttons feel different from real SNES controllers.


>>4482324
I am so jealous. I want a large BVM/PVM but they just don't exist in my part of the USA. At $100 that's an amazing deal, if those monitors were in my area, they'd be worth at least 5-6 times more than what you will pay.

>>4482376
I'm in FL and this pvm was the only thing I could find around me.. try apps like let go and pray someone is selling one. Best of luck anon

>>4482206
>>4482324
200 for 14inch is ebay price with shipping. If you're picking it up it should be less. 100 bucks locally is a great deal.

If the TV still works well and you're not poor, you should be satisfied.

The price on these things could still go up. I think the even the current meme prices are still undervalued.

Is there a guide anywhere for someone looking to buy a CRT?

>>4475853
no. PVMs are the fedora of the retro gaming

>>4483075
in the crt general
>>>/vr/crt

>>4477689
"Insignia"? Where do you live? In Kasiniestan? Do they have Panaphonic and Sorny there too, champ?

>>4482135
Wrong. Here in Meh-hee-koh the PVMs cost around 10,000 pesos (500 USD) and they only had 2 composite inputs, and they're like 8" and beaten and dirty.

>>4483713
insignia is best buy's house brand, usually just something else rebranded

>>4458540
I have that as well as a D32E1WU BVM.
The D32E1WU is on my game room with a 7.1 surround setup (even if it usually only plays 6.1 at most) and my Samsung CRT is on my bedroom and it has a 5.1 surround setup.
All of my pre-7th gen (and Wii) go to the BVM while I have some extra consoles on the Samsung.

I have an LG OLED 77" G6 4K TV on my main home theater with an 11.1 Dolby Atmos/DTS:X surround setup and all of my post 6th-gen (except for Wii) consoles and my PC rig goes there.

>>4477689
That TV upscales everything to 1080i. I've told you this before and you still call it a "480p" tv. It's a 1080i TV

>>4479550
This isn't one of them. It's a 1080i CRT

>>4485521
I know, I'm just saying that EDTVs are a thing even if they are rare.

>>4482376
Well im glad you like candy cane but regardless you might wanna think about getting real consoles. Those clone ones often have sound issues and once you hear the accurate sound it will piss you off.

>>4482410
Thanks. I have tried for the longest, got plenty of those apps. Those types of monitors just do not exist in my area, and I will have to resort to freight shipping from CA if I ever amass enough cash for one.


>>4486009
Yeah she's great. I think about getting real consoles all the time, it is just being able to afford them is the issue. I hope to get a real NES, a SuperGrafx, Xbox One X, Playstation 4 (Pro), NeoGeo AES, and Wii in that order. The Super Retro Trio is surprisingly not bad, the only games I have issues with on it are the MMC5 chip games on the NES.