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What do you guys prefer to use for non-hd gaming consoles? I hooked up my old consoles to a CRT and my hd consoles to a plasma hdtv. Any of you use clone machines like the Retron 5 to play on hdtv's and are they any good?
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I prefer CRT due to the lower latency, but due to lack of space in my apartment, I play all console games on my 4K TV. I can at least use things like OSSC to make the resolution crisp at 5x frame duplication. -
Original Consoles using rgb with a good upscaler to HD TV (or Monitor) would be my preferred option. Clone consoles like retron 5 are awful and if you want to emulate retropie is better option and you wil not be supporting scummy company like hyperkin. There is couple really good NES clone consoles from retrousb and analogue but they cost a lotComment
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I prefer CRT and a fairly small one. Big sharp pixels look weird to me. It's not the way I remember it.Comment
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HDtv. CRTs take up too much space, the screen flickering hurts my eyes and that constant whine really hurts my ears.Chickens are quite possibly the most vicious creatures I have encountered.Comment
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Why play with an old console if you do not play on an old TV? CRT gives you the original experience. To play in HD I prefer an emulator.
The best thing is a Slim TV CRT.
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If you want to act elitist, you need to know the little stuff like what is a PVM... or RGB signal... or how work Flat CRT... This website is from USA, the chances are that you are from US so, good luck finding a RGB CRT in USA... Here's what every real elitist says nowadays : "I thought I had the best of the best when I bought my Sony Trinitron Flat screen CRT, turns out, I was dead wrong". Real elitist play on PVM, they spent more for their PVM than most people for their 4K LCD screen and more for a full recap than those of us who sold a kidney to buy a really expensive 4K LCD display... Do you really think people ready to spend 2000$+ on a PVM alone (not talking about the other devices you need... Extron Emotia ? $600...) are wrong and ill-informed and should have played on a free CRT display found on the side of the road instead ?
"CRT gives you the original experience" ? You do know devs were using professional monitors and not random CRT, right ?
There's always a guy to state that "the only/best way to play retro consoles is on a good old CRT", it's not true and if you're in USA it's laughable...
"The best things are Slim CRT." Wrong again. Retro games were designed with bulb CRT in mind, so if you use a flat screen, the geometry will be messed up. It would look like you're watching through a magnifying glass (kind of). It's actually really distracting when the background moves.
In one hand, you can use a big screen that takes half of your living room real estate with no lag and a shitty picture, in the other you can play with your main 4K display and if you choose it wisely you get only 10ms of lag... If you didn't notice the geometry was all messed up and that composite was miles away from the RGB signal that were seeing devs on their screens while designing the games, you won't notice 10 ms of lag... -
Are you trying to use logic in a matter of nostalgia? I will continue playing with my old consoles on TV sets of the same period. And I will recommend what I like, from my subjectivity.
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Are they still making those!?Comment
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That would be cool if a company made CRTs/PVMs/BVMs for retro gaming with a lot of different inputs on the back. Id pay a grand or so for oneComment
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That's what i'm waiting for. A company that would make CRT for retro gaming exclusively. Would buy one instantly. -
That would be cool, but it won't happen. Even if there are enough people interested to buy them, the companies wouldn't take the risk. Take the Frameister XRGB mini for instance, they stopped making them about a year ago, you would think that with all those retro gamers there would be a drought and yet it's not the case. Even though it would be cool, it would be like creating a new product for 100 000 people at best. and it would be okay if all those 100 000 people would live in the same city, but it's not the case and you'd have to ship your big heavy CRTs all over the world, making them even more expensive and less desirable... But yeah, I would like that too. We're stuck with what's been made in the past.
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26 inch CRTComment
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I play on 4k with my retro pie. The graphics on old games are amazing. I haven't noticed any latency issues. Maybe I am good at adapting. But what I would like to get is a 4k CRT. It doesn't need to be 65 inches, 30 would be fine. But that is something I would go for.Comment
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Yeah, I forgot about the shipping logistics.. probably not happening. Guess it's just upscaling to HDTVs and fixing old TVs.Comment
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