/vr/ - Retro Games

If you can only have one or the other? Nope.
Unless you plan on moving soon keep the big telly. 13" is small and kills multiplayer games. I never in my life gamed on a TV under 19".

>>8453141
Picture sample

>>8453141
>Would it be worth it to zoom larp cringe
If your goal was to make me throw up a little bit on my mouth then the answer is yes.

>>8453215
What the fuck are you on about >>8453153
That seems fair, we’ve had the trinitron since 1996, but there’s talk of it being tossed so I was considering saving it

No, it's rarer to find S Video crts, keep it.

>>8453141
13" is pretty darn small. That is really only suitable as a very close distance desktop monitor (arms length maximum).

I've got a 17" JVC in my office for Gamecube games and it works alright at about a meter distance. I have another room with a 20" setup and that's the sweet spot for me at relatively close distance (1-2 meter). I don't currently have any CRT's larger than 20".

Screen size diagonals are deceptive, because the total screen areas squares as the diagonal increases. For example, for a 13" the screen size is (27/13)^2=4.31 times smaller than a 27", which is a huge difference.

>>8453141
No.

>>8453141
Nope.
You'll hate playing on the smaller screen.

>>8453281
It’s 13 inches, retard. If you don’t like it, put it in a closet or the corner of a room or something

>>8453141
Would make a good monitor

>>8453672
This is the autism that quells my curiosity to browse /sci/
Thanks anon

No OP! Take care of your eyes!

No, small screens suck. The good thing about "retro stuff" is that one can enjoy things now that used to be stupidly expensive. There are of course smaller screens that have a unique picture and thus serve a purpose.

Thanks bros

>>8453141
14" 15kHz monitor, yes, but a TV? no, unless it's some 600+ TVL or something

>>8453141
I have a 15" TV and I find it a bit too small for PS2 games, but perfectly good for PS1 and NES.

Too small. Maybe as a secondary/backup TV or something, maybe if you want to keep something on a desk. But for a main gaming setup it's just too small unless you're sitting right up against it.

>>8453141
>component only 13”
You mean composite.
Unpopular opinion but I say go for it. Unless you’re frequently playing 4 player split screen or playing from more than 8’ from the screen I think you’ll find the increase in picture fidelity is worth the trade off in real estate.

>>8453282
No, it’s fucking not little zoomer.

>>8457494
Give me yours then, nigger. I have 5 CRTs and none of them have it.

>>8457515
I have three crt and the only one that has component also has s-video.

whats a good use case for a super old 2003 computer? is it worth trying to use it as a modern machine with some linux distro or should i just keep it as a museum piece off the net with WinXP or Win98SE ?

>>8457479
100% that tube is a composite(2) and one RF. I am using one. Its good for SNES, NES, GEN, SEGACD, and PSX. I don't like how PS2 looks but XBOX GBA emulators look good. Old 4:3 movies/tv/anime are good.

>>8458497
Well, 2003 hardware usually still has good Win9x driver support, so using it as a dedicated DOS/Win9x gaming machine can make sense for the handful of games you can't play on a modern Windows machine. Even when it's not very period accurate.

>>8458497
AGP or PCI?
Pent 4? Multithread?
If your onboard graphics are DirectX 8.1 or higher you have good XP options.

>>8458509
What's the point of XP tho? Anything that runs under that will run under modern Windows too, anything that has problems, usually still has problems.

>>8458504
im not that well versed on DOS games besides for Skyroads or Commander Keen, any place to find recommendations ?
>>8458509
AMD Athlon 1800 XP
graphics card is ATi Rage 3D or something weak like that only DX6/7 support if i remember correcttly

>>8453282
Not in America.

>>8458497
You could get a rpi or a netbook or something with better perf than that box. Don't bother wasting it and it's power draw on something easily replicated by more modern hardware. I second keeping it as a old games box.

>>8458501
All that white plastic next to a bunch of sunny windows makes me uneasy

>>8458519
XP is a great OS for the hardware. For a use case Tiny XP is what everyone who made a Mame cab uses. Normal Xp service pack2-3 is very good for all the translated Japanese PC games( hentai).

Archive.org has Tiny XP or Mini XP and explains what it is.

Has a 28 inch trinton TV way back. Have a qled q90r now. Qled is orders of magnitude superior.

160 nit CRTs are for basement dwellers, literally

>>8453282
Seriously? Come on now.

>>8455849
There is a like new in box 20" CRT TV near me on CL going for $50. seems kinda pricey to me.

>>8460157
I would murder and rape a bitch to find a deal like that

>>8458961
It objectively is, there are way more composite/RF only CRTs, stop acting like that's not the case just because you have a different one

>>8460176
>>8458961
I just got a 27" Sony KV27S10. It has no S-Video.