Hey though, I found out an INCREDIBLY fun feature with those TV-VCR combos. It was really easy to record gameplay! :D
I thought that was pretty neat at the time. Got to show my friends some fun console gaming antics before it was easy to capture / upload / send such things.
That’s not exactly how CRT’s worked. They portrayed colors differently. Many people preferred their more vibrant colors. They effectively worked in inverse to today’s TV in the sense of subtracting vs adding light / colors. I wish they still made them
Yeah, lol. I don’t need a huge stack of game discs and cartridges when I can have a folder full of roms on my computer, with good backups.
Best of both worlds, really. The convenience of not needing physical media, the permanence of having it (maybe even more permanence, since files with good backups should last longer than physical media would – potentially forever).
And then there’s the extra bonus of emulation allowing me to make various improvements – running old games in widescreen with higher resolution, for example. Or using AR/Gecko codes to implement some quality of life features in old games that could really use them.
Reject volatile tradition, embrace modernity:
~/Games/ROMs/Nintendo 64/Also use a shitty CRT shader that mimics a broken black-and-white TV from the 50s for more tradition.
Lug around an ancient, bulky, heavy, obsolete, actual progressive scan CRT for maximum tradition. Bonus points if it has a built-in VCR.
You managed to make it worse with one simple feature!
Hey though, I found out an INCREDIBLY fun feature with those TV-VCR combos. It was really easy to record gameplay! :D
I thought that was pretty neat at the time. Got to show my friends some fun console gaming antics before it was easy to capture / upload / send such things.
That just sounds like a capture card. Nice that you figured out it could record more than TV shows!
Can I get Starfox on VCR?
Embrace the MiSTer master race!
That’s not exactly how CRT’s worked. They portrayed colors differently. Many people preferred their more vibrant colors. They effectively worked in inverse to today’s TV in the sense of subtracting vs adding light / colors. I wish they still made them
Yeah, lol. I don’t need a huge stack of game discs and cartridges when I can have a folder full of roms on my computer, with good backups.
Best of both worlds, really. The convenience of not needing physical media, the permanence of having it (maybe even more permanence, since files with good backups should last longer than physical media would – potentially forever).
And then there’s the extra bonus of emulation allowing me to make various improvements – running old games in widescreen with higher resolution, for example. Or using AR/Gecko codes to implement some quality of life features in old games that could really use them.
Oddly enough, I read this while wearing an N64 shirt.