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The sprites were made to be viewed on a blurry rear end CRT using the RF adapter it makes sense they look messy on clearer displays
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That's not the problem, the problem is that they don't look messy enough https://twitter.com/CRTpixels/status/1408451743214616587?s=20&t=bbVtWuIsmmpZXIPpUPAxlg Look at Dracula's mouth. He's supposed to have a smug grin with a squint to his eyes, but if you're looking at the sharp pixels he just looks like :3
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Feb 20, 2022 18:16
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after two decades of emulating, I like the pixel art tbh
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Finished Three Houses (Black Dragons, I'm not gonna replay with the other lame houses). What fire emblem should I try next?
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Feb 20, 2022 18:25
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Chas McGill posted:Finished Three Houses (Black Dragons, I'm not gonna replay with the other lame houses). What fire emblem should I try next? Donkey Kong Country 2
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Feb 20, 2022 18:37
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Snake Maze posted:Most of the time when the game comes up it’s the Dragon Quest fans who recommend putting the game on auto. It’s true that you also have the option of spending 140 hours manually selecting “attack” if you find that more entertaining, though. But if I'm on auto, why am I watching attack animations? Suddenly I'm playing Bravely Default and just watching numbers go up. And then I'm once again faced with 1. JRPGs are a beloved childhood genre. 2. This genre isn't for me.
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Feb 20, 2022 18:41
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i like my pixels sharp enough to cut my eyes, don't buy into big crt's propaganda
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Feb 20, 2022 18:54
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i use the crt filter, on my Nintendo Switch
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Feb 20, 2022 18:58
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I'm playing through grapple dog which is pretty fun but just enough cutscenes and unnecessary plot to be annoying
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Feb 20, 2022 18:59
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I like video games. I'm playing Legend of Mana right now. On one hand I am glad they left the pixels alone. On the other hand, these backgrounds look so nice and crisp still and these pixel people do not.
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Feb 20, 2022 19:30
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Tried my first Color Picross puzzles. They're weird. Are they easy? I managed the first page of 3 in Sega Picross without any aid, and now I'm feeling like I should just keep at it but I don't know. Once I'm done though, that's it, I'll put Sega Picross done for a bit before eventually hitting up Mega Picross. I'll probably refrain from buying a new one and dive into Disco Elysium.
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Feb 20, 2022 19:43
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the df retro guy has hosed up impressionable gamer’s minds about CRT. it sucks and I’m glad it’s dead!!!
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Feb 20, 2022 20:02
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Super Mario RPG may not look great in screenshot, but they do a lot in motion. Mario pantomiming what happened in Bowser's Castle to the Toad Chancellor is hilarious.
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Feb 20, 2022 20:04
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Quantum of Phallus posted:the df retro guy has hosed up impressionable gamer’s minds about CRT. it sucks and I’m glad it’s dead!!!
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Feb 20, 2022 20:05
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Thinking about the big screen TV my dad had in the 80s and how the exterior of the screen was grooved like a vinyl record.
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Feb 20, 2022 20:05
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I still have my childhood CRT and it owns and will never break
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Feb 20, 2022 20:06
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I play Alien Isolation with maximum film grain and I love it. This is on PC, don't even know if that's an option for the Switch port. That's as close to a CRT filter as I'll get. Project Warlock has a SHITLOAD of shader options, each one making it look objectively worse than using none at all, and I can't justify bothering with any of them. But if you're the kind of person who enjoys loving with retro filters, then I strongly recommend checking out the game. You can make it look like an overly saturated Amiga game with a curved screen. If the game wasn't so twitchy (in a good way), then I might try them but I need as much help as possible to see and kill them sumbitches as quickly as possible.  Also, I've finally started playing Earthbound and I love it. I barely survived the fight against Frank, and his tank killed me. Good god how am I supposed to do this?!
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Feb 20, 2022 20:33
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I play Alien Isolation with maximum film grain and I love it. This is on PC, don't even know if that's an option for the Switch port. That's as close to a CRT filter as I'll get. just go try again, i believe in you
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Feb 20, 2022 20:44
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If you take a picture of a game running on a crt and view that picture in your OLED or LCD it looks perfect. So they just need to figure out a filter that looks like you took a picture of a game.
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Feb 20, 2022 20:53
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i used the CRT filter for Super Metroid and it was nice and atmospheric. i thought it looked neat idk i have no strong opinions here
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Feb 20, 2022 20:54
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i don't really use it but its nice that switch online gives u a crt filter
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Feb 20, 2022 21:06
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flavor.flv posted:That's not the problem, the problem is that they don't look messy enough I both don't see the :3-face on Dracula in that pic and the tweet mentions definition on his teeth when his mouth is clearly closed so IDK about that.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:22
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John Wick of Dogs posted:If you take a picture of a game running on a crt and view that picture in your OLED or LCD it looks perfect. So they just need to figure out a filter that looks like you took a picture of a game. I would love some image filters for pictures taken on the Switch. - overly-saturated Nintendo Power screenshot - photo from 90 in a dark room no white balance, and you can barely make out the image on the tv. Complete with faded orange digital readout of date on the bottom of the picture. - polaroid picture taken during motion. - 80s vacation photo that shows your mom in the background in a swimsuit, showing juuuuuuuust a bit of cleavage.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:25
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Toad King posted:I both don't see the :3-face on Dracula in that pic and the tweet mentions definition on his teeth when his mouth is clearly closed so IDK about that.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:27
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I can kinda see that the single red pixel for the eyes was maybe meant to be softer looking but yeah a lot of it just comes off as aesthetic preference
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Feb 20, 2022 21:27
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Toad King posted:I both don't see the :3-face on Dracula in that pic and the tweet mentions definition on his teeth when his mouth is clearly closed so IDK about that. Yeah i feel ya. Like i see how the eyes are kinda weird as only a pixel but everything else looks fine to me
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Feb 20, 2022 21:32
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I definitely see the teeth and a smug grin.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:33
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He very clearly has fangs poking out and you should get glasses if you can’t see that
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Feb 20, 2022 21:36
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I wear glassess, buster rodd
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Feb 20, 2022 21:38
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The scanlines thing does look better if you're looking at a zoomed in picture on a monitor, but looking at it from a reasonable couch-to-TV distance, it's a wash for me. also uh that's a moustache; his lips are like a single pixel line and some shading one pixel below that
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Feb 20, 2022 21:39
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the red pixel eye thing also comes off more as a kludge than the idea that they'd meticulously design things with regard to how TVs would interpret the image but idk
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Feb 20, 2022 21:41
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I don’t think it’s particularly farfetched to think they were designing the sprites to look good on a crt tv, especially considering they were probably drawn on a crt monitor.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:44
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Boba Pearl posted:I definitely see the teeth and a smug grin. Bust Rodd posted:He very clearly has fangs poking out and you should get glasses if you can’t see that I mean I'm not the boss of what you or that crazy twitter person are seeing, but here's the concept art that portrait is based on:  E: v okay fine I won't spoiler tag it if you're gonna be like that 
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^ e: ah, beat me to it. Red eyes are more of a necessity, not enough pixels to distinguish lower eyelids and pupils if they're all gray, so they put in a tiny glowy red blur in the form of single glowing dot. Drac here looks like he's just Had It, though. He might be undead, but he's dead inside, too. Also, a lot more Japanese than Hungarian.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:52
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But enough talk... Have at you!
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Also, I've finally started playing Earthbound and I love it. If you're really asking, Earthbound is an old JRPG, grinding isn't glorious and maybe not even interesting, but even just a few levels more will usually make you strong enough to take any fight you're having trouble with.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Also, I've finally started playing Earthbound and I love it. Been ages since I last played but iirc the tank is slow so you can just stock up on healing items and heal as needed once you can't survive a hit since you'll heal before it attacks. Also it has a chance of doing nothing on a given turn.
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Bust Rodd posted:He very clearly has fangs poking out and you should get glasses if you can’t see that I think you might need to get yourself some glasses. That is a closed mouth with no fangs.
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I printed it out using my 3D printer and using braille it feels perfect. Sorry you don’t have synesthesia as one your side-effects.
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CRTs are great, but I've yet to find a filter that gives the actual effect of a CRT. There's a lot of nuance to it that filters just don't get right, but that's fine, because I've got my CRT setup right beside me. I can even commit crimes against video formats by down converting HDMI to RF- I have played my Switch on my CRT before. I don't usually have to do that though, as CRT doesn't usually look good for games made outside the era of analog video or 4:3 aspect ratios.  In any other situation, give me the sharpest drat pixels possible. I want full clarity with no filtering and no stretching- integer scaling only.
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