When Worse Graphics Are Actually BETTER

It's like the sentiment that electric guitars sound clearer with a DI but "better" through a tube amplifier, or even digital versus analog tape.

I am fine with playing retro games on my Ps4 and my 4k TV, but this video helped me understand why some people prefer old TVs. I don't really care about such graphical fidelity but I totally respect people who do, the games really looks incredible in the original hardware.

Hooked my PS2 and OG Xbox up to my new TV and went "...I don't remember things looking QUITE so bad...", but connecting them to my CRT from 2001 and... well they still didn't quite match my memories, but they improved greatly! Some of the jerky movements were even fixed because of the analog display. All magic to me.

i like how the title seems like click bait without actually being click bait

Hey. I have a giant (40") Pioneer PDP V402 Plasma that was in storage for many years. It is 4:3 640x480. It needs a new motherboard, but I actually found one. Is it worth repairing for retro gaming?

The color banding in this video it's atrocious on the purple section 🟣,I thought my tV or phone it's broken but it's definitely a video compresión problem, sheesh 🫣.

Bro looks like his wife has a boyfriend

No me gusta ver borroso, ni grisáceo ni bordes de sierra

Yep, I just hooked up a CRT for a third screen and sent my Retroarch setup to that monitor. SONY TRINITRON FOR FREE BABYYYYYYYYYYYYY

The CRT's hitting the electrons still happens on a daily basis in my game room!

RF cables did not have to be screwed in. I lived in that era and plugged in these consoles myself. Not a single one "screwed in".

Old type of cable is what makes it better, if you have it on component or rgb, it'll looks just as bad as it was on lcd

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Just play on old mini tvs if no monitor

Pashun!

This is why I was so sad when my Sony Vega Trinitron just died last year. She might have been a humongous beast, but I loved the picture on it

I definitely regret getting rid of my CRT's for this reason.

FINALLY!!!! Finally, I'm not feeling like crazy anymore!

Also, there is a similar saying about computers that says:

"Computers were faster when they were slower"

Modern games force you to upgrade your graphics card.

Smaller CRT also never induced motion sickness. Larger monitors and faster frame rates playing quake or doom really make me nauseous now.

And thus, FXAA was born

true for so many things, it's akin to the knowledge about widescreen vs. pan 'n' scan, colorization vs. black and white and framerates in silent films.. in the world of movies. games deserve to to be presented the way the designers intended.

Super cool 😎!!! It would be nice to get more details about retro gaming. I am actually using a HDMI/AV to play my retro games on a projector.

Nothing will ever top that Super NES sweet spot where the graphics were getting actually a LOT better but the games remained the good old 2D platform action. Mega Man X. Super Mario World. Yoshi's Island. Super Metroid. Or even top down views like A Link to the Past. I bought a Playstation 1. It was fine. But I just drifted away from video games. I dig the old style platform games. If I found out they made tons of new ones for the PS5 or whatever...like, "2D-ish" games but with the graphics they can do now...I could see myself getting back into video games. The 3D stuff just does nothing for me for some reason. I think the last games I really loved were Contra Shattered Soldier and Castlevania Symphony of the Night..

I'm getting a Sony Trinitron for 10 bucks to pair with my RetroPie. Can't wait.

i was also amazed when i connected my purchased retro pc, the old games actually look better on the crt, not just a little bit better. it also feels somehow more direct even at 12 fps.

the picture you used in the thumbnail is from super mario maker which isnt an old game and neighter it is retro, fix it.

I was never a fan of scanlines until I had Full HD TFT panels. Usually is much better than smoothing filters and also seems to fit brightness better to original intent.
SNES games especially seem way to bright and even modern stuff like SF3 benefits somewhat.

The transparency effects I have never seen filtered right.

Faxanadu on the nes was an interesting one. There is a "fog" in one area and it looks like crap on a modern display but if you look at it on a CRT it looks *amazing*. They knew what they were doing, sometimes.

One big problem I have with many "filters" is the scanlines option. It never looks good and it's way too clear. I have an old 28" CRT and it looks nothing like the scanline filter you see as options.

Lmao no. The dithering never looked that good.

"480i and up... since that's what's used by most broadcast and streaming content"
checks upload date huh?!?
Is low res broadcast an american thing?

There's some minor stuff that's a bit inaccurate but considering it's only a 6 minute video I'd say they did a pretty good job with this one

Super interesting, thank you for this video! I love retro games, fun, fun fun!

And to solve this they sometimes smooth out the pixels to a gooey mess, which is even worse.

This only applies to America. The rest of the world got SCART where we naturally got sharper images even on a CRT. I do feel bad for you guys never experiencing true RGB over 480p SCART, it does look much better

Really interesting video

I saw Mega Man X and got excited

Old TVs look better because the pixels get smoothly blended together. You're welcome.

They're OLD games, and OLD consoles. Old hardware is not retro. Owning old hardware is retro. YOU are retro. Shovel Knight, that is a retro game, made in the style of an 8 bit game even though it's modern.That's what retro is all about - echoing the past. Games made in the 1980s were not looking backwards.

480i. Barf.

In movies high resolution can bring out more of the imperfections that standard did not pick up.

Genesis was all of a dither because it couldn't do transparencies. bdum tsh

Yeah, I always add a CRT filter.

My NES emulator has an especially good one. It can simulate a CRT's contrast, color bleeds, oversaturated reds, RF noise. And you can adjust how much or how little of all that.

They've been a thing for as long as I've been using emulators (since about '01), but they keep getting better and better.

I have a simple solution for you. Put a piece of frosty glass in front of your display. Or, buy a pair of old people’s reading glass from Walmart.

Same reason why albums from the 90s sound better on cassette, and videos on VHs

To be honest, I adore these big pixels. I love playing 8-bit and 16-bit games on modern plays. I like playing some PSX games on them too.

Still have a small CRT around for whenever i want to play my old consoles, and I will never get rid of it.