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Honestly, I grew up playing those games on CRT screens, i'd prefer to play them upscaled on my phone screen than go back to CRT's. >Some mediums allow a lot of
by grawprog 6y ago
Honestly, I grew up playing those games on CRT screens, i'd prefer to play them upscaled on my phone screen than go back to CRT's.
>Some mediums allow a lot of interesting things, for example when Donkey Kong came out, Nintendo loved the pre-rendered 3D look, and demanded their next game be that way, Myamoto (that was orignally hired by Nintendo as artist, NOT as game designer), then made Yoshi Island to be the extreme opposite: art that is obviously 2D, with a painted look. I just want to see more people pulling that sort of stuff, instead of replicating something they don't understand, when they clearly have skills to do better.
I think you're comparing two different intentions here. When those games were made, the goal was to push the graphics of the snes as hard as they could. Most retro games are made with the intention of, well, looking retro.
If you look at a game like say Hollow Knight, that's where I feel like art styles like Yoshi's island evolved to. There's still people going for that painted look, you just don't notice them or compare them to retro games because, they don't look retro.
- willis936 6y ago>i'd prefer to play them upscaled on my phone screen than go back to CRT's A good thing too. Secondhand CRTs are getting scarcer and demand is increasing. It’s a very schizophrenic microeconomic case study.
- grawprog 6y agoI've still got a couple. Got rid of one last time I moved. Haven't used any of them in around 10 years now. ETA: Wait, I used the CRT monitor on my desktop server sometime about 5 years ago after a power outage and I needed to restart the server.
- speeder 6y agoMy problem now is how to ugprade my GPU :( My favourite monitor is a CRT, currently plugged into a R9 380X, that is the most recent GPU + RAMDAC combo... newer video cards do not have RAMDAC anymore :( Also I do have the CRT main problem too... I own a Television that I intend to use to play old consoles, and that TV is from a very sought after model, but it is stuck on my parents house because it is so big and heavy that there is no physical space inside my apartment to put it :/ It will wait until I move into a ground-level house to use it... (I still regularly turn it on and use for other things, it works great)
- willis936 6y agoThe lack of RAMDACs in new GPUs is a real problem. The nicest DP-VGA adapters I can find need to be imported from Germany and even they top out at around 200 MHz pixel clocks before there are sync drops. When the blanking time is factored in, 1600x1200 at 75 Hz is unstable. Very disappointing when I have a P1130 (rebranded G520, 1200 TVL).