The 30 Most Mind-Blowing Games Examples of Retro Pixel Art
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00:00 Intro
00:05 Video Topic
00:25 Sega Genesis/MegaDrive
04:01 SNES/Super Famicon
05:47 Playstation 1
08:25 Nintendo 64
09:35 Sega Saturn
10:10 Dreamcast
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I finally understand why images from my childhood don't evoke the same feelings on the mounds of emulators I have tried. Thank you.. I believe I should track down actual hardware
Emulators can do a lot of this too, if you use the right ones (the generic, standard RetroArch has a lot of this stuff built in), and turn on the appropriate settings. They're not quite up to the quality standards of filtering+scaling in RetroTinks et al, but it'll get you "most" of the way there, for free.
@@crtified1001 That's nice but the real reason to still go for a CRT with retro gaming is no motion blur and zero input lag. OLED screens are getting close to that with black frame insertion but still no cigar. Best solution for now, if you still want the benefits of emulators like save states, is to get a good CRT PC monitor (they are a lot cheaper than TV's) and use CRT shaders or SwithcRes.
@@islandboy9381 It's true, those are some of the remaining advantages of CRTs which have not been addressed yet by newer technology. They matter little to me, personally. I have several CRTs including PC monitors, and I'm rarely tempted to use them these days. Using a MiSTer means that what little input lag remains via the LCD is (to me) virtually meaningless in any practical sense, and frankly I don't see motion blur.
I'm sure there are more exacting and discerning judges out there like yourself, but you can't apply your own standards to everyone.
Finally, a matured conversation here. CRT technology is always I prefer for Retro gaming. But with modern games it can work pretty well too. The smoothness and clean look makes enhance games significantly
I know the feeling. I didn't realise that me as a child was playing fantastic looking games and it was that I was playing on a CRT tv. I think that the MegaDrive collection on my PS4 has the features to make it happen, but with my other games, I will need a CRT tv.
I love all the examples you use with dithering specifically. Crazy how pixel art games can go from looking like crap with sharp pictures, to having so much depth and texture when CRT masks are used.
Yes! I was thinking the same thing! Dithering, scanlines and shadowmasks really change the visuals!
I don't get people who like raw sharp pixels! I guess they probably never lived the CRT era and doesn't understand how it supposed to look!
@@andremalerba5281 there are games where it can look good. I think mostly with plane colors.
@@andremalerba5281 I grew up with CRTs and I never use scanline filters, but that's because most of them tend to be really bad. At least that was the case when I first started seeing them, 15 or 20 years ago. This video has definitely made me reconsider my stance though.
@@StraightOuttaJarhois yup. Filters make it just look shit. I actually considering getting crt monitor. Shame can't allow it now as I have no room for it. But definetly get one when I finally buy a house/apartment.
@@StraightOuttaJarhois You should seriously look into Retroarch. While you can use generic overlays for scan lines with it, they have an insanely huge selection of actual scan line shaders, and if your PC is strong enough can come eerily close to looking like the real thing. You can have it look like a very sharp Trinitron, or even a crappy, composite TV image, bad blooming and all.
Great video. A little tag indicating if it's RGB, S-Video or Composite would be helpful.
I'm sure it's just RGB vs composite.
The non CRT side is likely the RGB
@@cheplays2482 not at all, the pixelated images are all raw image, the crt side changes from composite, s video and rgb. The shaking blurry images are composite, the sharper images could be s video or rgb. This is why a tag would be helpful, not everyone knows the difference or fully understand what the video is about.
@@OrangeGeemer I get it now. My bad.
It's CRT.
Nonthing compares to the cozyness of a small glowing CRT with your favorite console, a blanket with your favorite food and a rainy day outside.
A potentially cool idea for a video would be to play modern indie games with pixel art graphics on a CRT TV/monitor to see how modern pixel art would look on it. Games like Sonic Mania, Shovel Knight, Owlboy, Hyper Light Drifter, Celeste ect come to mind.
Yeeees, this!
Sonic Mania actually has this built in and it definitely looks better with it in my opinion. Stuff like Hyper Light Drifter would be interesting as hell, though. It's got an artstyle that feels like it was made with more modern displays in mind (well I mean it literally was lol) in the way squares and rectangles are constantly repeated motifs across everything. Stark angular shapes and almost no gradients. I suspect it might actually look worse with a CRT filter. This goes for a lot of modern indie games with pixel art, actually. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery and Super Time Force immediately come to mind.
A lot of the modern retro pixel art look like shit because they're obviously faking the pixels, but not exactly counting the pixels out. Old-school 8 bit and 16 bit had pixel restrictions that developers actually stuck to. The retro pixel games seems to be mashing all kinds of pixel counts together.
@@superfightman2053 Sonic Mania actually is 240p in it's pixels with the engine that ran Genesis remasters and yea other indie games don't do that but simply try to emulate that look, however I think it would still be interesting
Make sure to include Songs of Conquest, they really nailed it on modern screens already, would love to see how that turns out.
Much like when comics were printed with halftone color, the artists made their choices with those limitations in mind.
Good point!
If someone wants to replicate the crt style on an emulator and doesn't have a crt monitor or something, an easy way is enabling scanlines, but adding the bilinear filter (only scanlines with sharp pixels makes the image just look bad and darker) even tho, some emulators like k fuson or retroarch have filters that can emulate the CRT blending 99% perfect, however in retroarch is a bit tricky finding the right filter
Imo, if you're in RetroArch, then your first port-of-call can simply be to enable the "CRT easymode" preset.
As a starting point. An easy one. Then, explore further from there.
I think for Sega Genesis the best shader is one that simulates NTSC composite video.
While for NES up to PS1 is one that simulates either S-Video or RGB.
You've used some fantastic examples there. Composite/scanlines/crt filters are absolutely transformative. I'm going to "downgrade" to composite with my Retrotink 5X and have a play around with it. Great vid.
I get so frustrated telling people this in retro videos, Raw Pixels look horrific, and were not what 2D games ever looked like. I argue with people who just don't get it, and they won't use filters.
@@alexojideagu it’s still better than those smoothing filters
Love it love it
One thing you didn't show off is text. Soul Calibur 2 (mine's on PS2 through s-video) is a game with lots of small text in the mission descriptions. I've found that the same shadow mask that you use in the video is really good at cleaning up text and making it super clear.
This really emphasizes how much thought and care goes into pixel art. All the shapes and textures they imply really came to life on the CRT.
The aesthetic just has such a video game feel to it that's beautiful in its own way. It's hard to capture the same feeling with CRT filters alone.
Thanks for sharing this. Far too many retro gaming creators just show us the raw pixels without applying any sort of filtering (and many of them seem to think this looks better? smh). To me that's such an eye-sore an not how these graphics were meant to be seen!
the trouble is video streaming sites like youtube and twitch use heavy compression on their vods that really screw up the image of games with with scanlines or other shadow masks
Amazing video! What settings are you using on the RetroTINK? Somehow, the CRT filters don't look this good on my end.
Great comparison! The filters looks amazing
Great video, i love comparisons like these
10/10 video, I've only seen these examples on image forums; it's great that they're available for the masses now.
WOW 😯 Amazing job with this video!
bro, seeing the CRT images hit me with such a huge way of nostalgia and feels. i have to figure this out or just get a CRT monitor lol.
This is an excellent showcase of the difference between raw sprites and properly filtered sprites. I use reshade to apply crt filters on all my old games. Through emulation front ends like retroarch to steam re releases, proper crt filters are an absolute must for older pixel based games. I have been explaining this fact for years, and have met much opposition, for some reason...
Looking so much better with scanlines. We are missing out a lot in the LED era
Thank you my God. I keep telling people this in retro videos, Raw Pixels look horrific, and were not what 2D games ever looked like. I argue with people who just don't get it, and they won't use scanline filters. Atari Lynx games really suffer too.
I see the scanlines stop at the Dreamcast. Would you say it's not required for the consoles that followed ?
@@armamentarmedarm1699 Some of the filters were/are horrific, but I found there was always way to find a decent filter setting in Mame even 20 years ago. I had a 19 inch CRT PC monitor so it looked a lot more convincing. But those filters where the lines remained in place look disgusting especially doubled. You had to configure or find the right settings.
@@djm9937 Dead or Alive 2 on the PS2, when you switched it to RGB scart, the scanlines, full screen 60fps really make a huge difference on a PAL CRT. Although in Pro Evolution Soccer the picture quality suffered in sharpness.
@@alexojideagu I didn't grow up playing games on crts but I use the CRT filters on some retro games and it looks like 10 times better
One of the best videos I've seen on the channel. Your content is getting better every day more and more! (Very well chosen music too ;))
Thanks in all regards ;)
Thank you so much for this video. I never thought the diffference was so enormous. You helped my understanding of 2D graphics massively.
You make me relive my childhood with these. Thanks!
@Wobbling Pixels: Great video as always. I’m wondering if you have a Mister FPGA and if so. Do you have good settings for that to get this kind of look out of it?
Awesome video , did you achieve the CRT look on the retrotink 5x? If so which filter 😁
i noticed a lot of Consumer-1 in there. I personally really like the look of the Medium mask best myself.
Incredible! How did you capture these? Or are these post-processed filters?
0:24 tink5x + og hardware
I find that activating the scanline effect in MAME and playing around with the different effects that it offers (through HLSL) really helps make games look a lot better even if not as good as original hardware it still gets really close. Thanks for this video 😊
Please, let me go back and live it all again! So many wonderful memories in here. I miss when games looked like this!
Stunning!
I know that the game I am working onf for Amiga computers looks significantly better on CRT.
The CRT effect superbly illustrated here. I would love to see some Bitmap Brothers stuff in here too though ;)
I use scan lines with my Retrotink 5x and it's amazing. The only thing I don't use is the wobble pixel mode like you have, that simulates cheap CRTs. It messes with my eyes a bit lol.
Yeah, I liked my CRT monitors sharp back in they day too :) RGB/component and a nice monitor means no fuzziness at all without loosing the CRT effect, especially the Sonic example was "terrible 😇
Thank you so much for all the work you have put in. I have been looking for a solution that could potentially let me retire my CRT's forever. And your work with all the CRT/LCD filters looks like it just might be the answer!
I don't enjoy the pixel perfect stuff because it to me it destroys the artists intent. There is a lot of color and detail blending you miss out on when not on a CRT. But I've never scene something replicate that really well digitally until your work.
You sir are a Hero to the retro game preservation world.
All these old games were designed ON crt screens, so all of the color and contrast decisions made in the illustration are suited gor the display. But when in the sharp pixel-perfect format, the coloring and contrast gets all messed up.
Also the 'softening' effect comes from how CRTs don't use pixels, instead using a dense rgb color mask system, as well as the horizontal blurring from the electron gun's movement.
Excellent video, until a few years ago I started to learn about the old tube TVs and how pixel art games should really look like, and although as a kid I played retro console games, I did it through emulators on a CRT monitor, with a clean image not much different from an LED or LCD monitor.
Now that I know how it works, I use quality shaders to imitate those old TVs in retroarch, achieving correct results.
Even understanding that tastes are tastes, I can't understand how there are still people who say that those retro games look good in raw image, with clean pixels that sometimes don't form anything recognizable or pleasant to see.
NOTE: These are Retrotink5x PRO CRT masks/filters NOT Retroarch shaders!
The video is a best of from second twitter account twitter.com/5Xpixels plus new examples. Less infomercial but entertaining video. Enjoy, relax and let me know which one is your favorite😎In case you would like to have a basic explanation about the benefits of CRT TVs/CRT filters with low resolution games : th-cam.com/video/1cGAP1i_4xQ/w-d-xo.html
Can you please share your shader presets?
@@Pender666 For Retrotink5x?
@@wobblingpixels3921 Was all CRTs shots on real CRTs or some kind of shader?
@@Pender666 th-cam.com/video/nw2QfPREu-Q/w-d-xo.html
Hardware scaler Retrotink5x PRO CRT Filters with real console hardware
@@wobblingpixels3921 What's up with 10:42? The first image has no teeth showing
Very nostalgic and instructive video. I had not seen many of these games in this form since I was a child. The games straight up did not look that bad back then, it's not just a nostalgia effect. Modern high-res pixel art (which is still beautiful in its own right) kinds of muddles the sleight of hand that they were doing back then.
Good idea for a video. As a guy in my 40s I had to watch until the end to see what games you chose.
I loved this video. Could you do a part 2 with more games?
yes in the future but this takes weeks or even months
the sega megadrive takes advantages with composite cables adding the ilusion of more color on screen
This is exactly why I thought I was imagining things when I remember games looking better back then than on emulators. It's because our modern monitors are different from old CRT TVs.
amazing!
but now can't unsee all the intended and missing effects and my brain always trys to image this with crt artefacts or dare I say intended effect.
please include a short crt-filter comparison in all your clips from now on!!! thank you XD XD XD
Beautiful pixels buchered by recent hardware. Thanks man, very cool video !
Do you think horizontal scaling is important to make crt masks like 'consumer 1' etc taking full effect?
I used to have it so good playing these games on a crt tv as a kid. I have been playing them on modern tvs now and it just isn't the same.
Note that in real crt TV, you dont see those black lines unless you're looking an inch from the screen, which you should never do.
This is wonderful you do kind of forget how these games looked and how sometimes lower clarity created better images.
This is why old console pixel art looks totally different from our modern pixel art, but old handheld art looks more in line with today.
i like the little specks of color it puts around stuff
Great, need full setting about scanlines for sega gen, ps1. Like for this great job
I like this simulation (filter) because it gives a pretty good approximation to how old games are supposed to look like, and also give people a proper introduction to the difference in display technology.
There's some caveats, however. As someone who exclusively hooks my old consoles to my high-range consumer-level CRT (because professional-grade monitors like the PVM give you an image quality no one in the consumer space would have ever even witnessed), there's multiple things you just can't do with a filter, and some things filters just get really wrong. One of those is the scanline effect actually not being really noticeable on real hardware, unless your console or device is outputting 240p, because that way the same lines are getting redrawn top to bottom, leaving the intermediate lines dark, although they still experience color bleed (due to the way the electron beam emits light), which fills up the blanks. Again, it's not really noticeable unless you basically stand 1 inch away from the screen, and this seems to be what people who program these filters do, which seems weird to me because you're not supposed to play your videogames at a very close distance.
The other thing is the vibration in the image is something filters get all wrong and/or mixed up constantly. Interlaced and progressive video modes can be told apart from each other exactly due to this. Some consoles output progressive scan (such as the SNES), some do interlaced scan (example, PS1 and 2), and some can do both depending on game or cables you're using (such as the Gamecube). Interlaced scan tends to flicker and "ride up", as it were. You can easily notice this on real hardware, if you plug your PS1 to a real CRT and turn it on, the PlayStation logo seems to waver up if you look at its edges. That's the interlaced scan in action, with the TV "knitting" frames together quickly one after the other. You'll never see this "vibration" on consoles like the SNES, because of their progressive scan output.
Overall, I think it's pretty cool to have technology that can approximate what real hardware shows you, but in the end, I don't think it'll ever be possible to accurately represent what you can experience on the actual hardware itself.
Thanks for your post.
When zooming in on PVM you will notice "scanlines" as in this video using Retrotink5x CRT filter. Here is one example with CRT TV:
twitter.com/CRTpixels/status/1498434093641617409
With BVM it's even more noticeable.
The video shows zoom in footage. When playing the game with the right scanlines settings you will not notice any scanlines.
The Retrotink5x has a CRT sim mode for interlaced content BTW.
CRT filters of the Retrotink5x are not on the same level as CRT TV I gree but they much closer than any hardware scaler before and with Retotink4k I expect tha gap will be much smaller.
Guys if you want best imitation of old CRT in modern retro games or emulated or ported games, use reshade and exactly GTUv50 + EasymodeCRT combo of shaders, GTU gives almost perfect blur and composite color bleed and easymodeCRT gives good enough aperture grid imitation that combined together looks close enough to real old CRT (you can also add motion blur and chromatic Abberation for better effect), But before doing it make sure to find out real internal pixel resolution of game to set up shaders correctly. Best way to find out is to make screenshots and measure size of on screen pixels in actual pixels and divide it. For example you play in 4k and your in game pixels on screenshots is 8x8 pixels, this means you have to 3840/8 and 2160/8 and you will get internal resolution 480x270 (that actually pixel resolution if most recent TMNT Shredders revenge) if game is 4:3 better play it in original resolution or you will have hard time setting proper float resolution of heights that compensates 4x3 to 16:9 resolution changes and adds black bars to count.
Some of these animated computer graphics conjured up the spookiness of early animations from the 1920's and 30's.
what tools/software did u use to change the normal picture to CRT scanlines ?
I've been using a shader set called "Guest CRT" and it's made 4th and 5th gen games look amazing
So it wasn’t just me. I though these games looked better when I was at an arcade vs emulating it at home.
Excellent video!
It’s not emulation that’s the issue it’s the display used
@@crestofhonor2349
My point being my pc doesn’t utilize a CRT when arcade machines do.
I feel that CRT shaders expecially from those working on Retroarch are getting there, dont know if they will ever come close to the real deal, but at least in its current state are way better than having none
CRT Royale is great, but on order for it to work, you need roughly a 4k/5k resolution minimum. You just can't store enough information when you only have 10x or 11x scaling, and that's just for 240p.
A lot of 480p games like Wind Waker end up better looking with native rendering in high revolutions than with CRT effects anyways, but it'll be a long time until we have high enough resolution screens that can properly do CRT shaders on 480p.
@@FLYNN_TAGGART Yeah I started to notice that, after I change from a 900p screen to a 1440p I'm been struggling to make the shaders work as intended, the only one that actually look good was a custom one made with 1440p in mind that I found in a forum
They are getting there, there are a few things though, that get little attention, like composite video artifacts, there is little work done to replicate a more accurate behaviour in that front. There is more work on moire patterns (from pictures) or curvature, than on the natural defects, or shall i call it quirks, like convergence and signal noise. Most are happy with the results of blargg that is really hard to find anything on composite and rf
I still have a CRT at home, I recently learn you can play wii u game with the composite cable from a wii, I want to test that out with some virtual console game or maybe shovel knight
Definitely is a different experience originally when we didn't actually look at pixels directly since the CRT offered a form of free antialiasing. Emulation kind of created this conflict where to this day people argue about aspect ratio even though 99.9% of the screens were 4:3 lol. I'm just glad filters came about to bridge the two worlds together and provide something approximate to the old video conditions. :)
Composite alone really does a lot for the Sega Genesis and Saturn, many examples where they took full advantage how that can blend adjacent pixel colors together and create new colors and transparency effects.
most of screens were 3:2
Is that a joke?🤨 Because 3:2 is more of photography aspect ratio, 35mm film and DSLR cameras/smartphones.@@kubistonek
All tv were 3:2 with overscan
Oh okay. Well it's hard to count overscan dimension as it's more of a margin than typical screen space. Kind of why aspect ratios like 4:3, 16:10, and 16:9 are used instead Ie. final visible picture shape.
There's been a few examples of retro PCs expanding window size further into overscan space but that's not very often. Also NTSC & PAL differ a lot. @@kubistonek
How do you emulate the crt look and the technical errors?
2:48, i don't believe, really! The eyes of the lady are squared, and on CRT looks like a good painting!
Is this from an actual CRT display or is it a filter to get this effect? Either way it's mind blowing how much better it looks
Some of the flickering later in the video implies to me they are CRT filter shaders, not an actual CRT. The quality also changes between systems
My CRT is a low grade consumer one so I get the vertical jailbars but man its still waaaay better than an emulator.
Now THAT...is eye opening. Wow.
1:02 Earthworm Jim art is mindblowing with the CRT filter applied.
CRTs did wonders for 90's games, that's for sure, but I definitely don't miss the eye fatigue that they caused me. I've actually started to appreciate visible dithering as an artistic choice.
What capture card do you use and/or recommend?
3:51 happier on the crt filter 🙂😃 👌
What is the closest CRT filter to match the one in this video? Specifically SOTN?
The CRT monitor is akin to lacquer when finishing a car's spray job.
With the newest firmware on rt5x, the hdr10 option increasing brightness and increases the gamma setting's range. This makes the CRT scanlines and grill/mask filters darken the image less. Combined with a new OLED TV with BFI, you get the best CRT emulation we've ever had. What scanline and CRT mask/grill settings qqare you using now? It's insane that so many features have been added...
I wish there was a good universal CRT filter for all the classic games.
CRT filters can be quite fascinating, especially at 4K.
I'm aware that Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn were adjusted for Composite Quality mainly for transparencies.
5:47- I have noticed the Grain/Dither Effects in Metal Gear Solid after playing the game with S-Video the first time. But I found out that the PC Version and Twin Snakes Remake has Higher Resolution assets for the Codec Avatars. Unfortunately in the PC Version, it lacks the center glow for the frequency number in the Codec Screen. 🙁
8:01- I found that starting with the PC Version (Again) that the Character Avatars were hand drawn and not 3D. Which would explain why Aerith's hair looks white.
And just like Metal Gear Solid, the PC Version of FFVIII has not only Higher Resolution assets for the Character Avatars, especially the GFs, but also has Higher Resolution FMVs!
Thanks for the infos. Always interesting to know the differences between the versions.
@@wobblingpixels3921 You're welcome. And thanks for the Heart Symbol.
The improvement is much more noticeable in 2D games, but in the case of 3D games, what shader do you recommend? I am using RetroArch as the main emulator @@wobblingpixels3921
This video really highlights how CRT TVs made the low resolution graphics look great. With that being said I like how Dreamcast looks over VGA on an 4K OLED TV. Tried both but it looks so much better on the HDTV.
it is not only the pixel art...is the crt monitors! and the scanlines of the retro feeling!
This is why pixelart with dither has been so powerful in the past 😮
if you dont have a crt and wanna experience retro games as intended you can use sonkun crt shaders for retroarch
YEAHHHHH I KNEW THEY WERE LOOKING SO GORGEOUS
This vidéo is awesome because with it you show to the world, and particulary to the new generation the BIG MISTAKE they do by playing those games without considering this aspect and at least search a way to reproduce the original render. Many young people would also reconsider how these games looks like.
Not a huge fan of scan lines on 3D games, but my god those 16-bit games look amazing.
Psx/saturn games look amazing in old tvs, the gains are as much or more than 2d sprites
Which Retroarch filter can I use to get visuals from this CRT?
In GBS (8200) Control this is also possible. With the advantage that by having a VGA output, we can use a CRT monitor. It looks beautiful.
I wish there was a way to get the retro CRT look as a filter for my computer monitors and phone screen. Why isn't there an app for that yet!
Which crt filter are you using here?
I also have some videos posted on my channel relating to this, but it's mostly tricks and such I did on an ossc.
This is astonishing.
I'd like to argue that in the case of Castlevania SotN and Metal Gear Solid, it wasn't actual pixel art, but rather physical artworks that were scanned and downscaled until they fit in the dialogue boxes, then slightly touched to add features like Dracula's red eyes or simply to avoid weird outlines.
Still impressive how they managed to fit that nicely without it looking ugly, but this is most definitely not real pixel art.
The touch ups are what it makes it pixel art IMO. Take for example the eyes of dracula. Both consists of one red pixel. The devs knew when it's displayed on CRT with the common cables like composite which have flaws like color bleeding the eyes will fit the eyes of a dracula. That is not always the case. Sometimes its just by accident.
Indeed, but both scanned and made from scratch assets were stored in low resolution, as it was possible at the time, knowing that the CRT would smooth them out when displaying them. You were not supposed to see the raw art assets.
3:51 CRT added teeth^^
Tip: If you still have a crt tv, buy a nvidia Geforce 9xxx series with s-video out ( if you tv don't have svideo there are some simple circuits using two ceramic caps and a switch that can convert s-video to composite) and configure the screen size at nvidia control panel. The ATI HD 4xxx series are easier to use because the s-video on it is more "plug and play" but, the OpenGL 3.3 support is a hit and miss with some more demanding emulators.
This makes me wanna try out CRT filters on modern 2d games!
It probably won't be the same. The old games were written and designed on CRTs. The artists were drawing their art, while looking at the results and outcomes on CRTs, and adjusting to suit. Allowing scanlines, etc, to define facial and other details, as they drew.
New 2D games, unless the art was made the same way, won't have been designed specifically to take advantage of CRT "helping" to define art details, and therefore - while they might still look great, and in a different "retro" way, the interpolation and dither effects simply won't have the same dramatic effect.
That's not to say it's not worth doing! Simply that the CRT-specific development chain has not been followed, in newer games, and so it probably won't be a like-for-like situation.
These games were made with a crt in mind so having them pixel perfect shows off the imperfections
I've never had those hideous visible scanlines on my CRT, even never seen them at other people's houses when gaming there.
What's the name of the different filters. I notice some with scanlines not only blur the image, but also mix the colors through vertical lines (for example Shinobi on Genesis). But others seem to have an octagonal structure (for example Battle Arena Toshinden and Mega Man X4 on Sega Saturn) the effect that I remember from the CRTs in my childhood.
PVM600 and FV310 Trinitron scanlines
@@wobblingpixels3921 that way quick! Oh cool, so you use them in Retroarch or in different emulators? Do you have to use a set resolution? I'm asking because someone said he did the math and to get a true CRT filter effect, you'd need an 8K resolution. But some of your effects you showed are stunning!
@@nowonmetube These are Retrotink5x PRo filters with real console hardware
@@wobblingpixels3921 okeey one last thing, all these the only filters you used or others throughout the video? Maybe you could put this in the video description for others to see, too? :) that'd be great. Thanks!
And this is exactly why I have a CRT tv in my study :)
Ah yes, the invisible grid that makes the magic happens... LCD and OLED is nice and all, but CRT is just something else, also the response time... *chef kiss*
When I bought my first lcd flatscreen monitor for my PC I was really disappointed that it looked worse than my old crt monitor. This video shows why.
The waterfall in sonic 2 looks more transparent and all games have better blending of colours on the CRT. I guess this was the intended look
ohh man, makes me want to get a CRT again and rebuild a RGB-Pi again.
Can I get that picture on the left with the 4k tink?
Best advertisement for CRT televisions I've ever seen.
Do any up scalers use crt blending?
I've been using emulators for over 20 years and I never realized the purpose of the scanline and lcd filters. They have gotten a lot better now. Try the simple "dot" in the handheld shaders on retroarch for gba, it looks so good. Snes looks good with it, but it's better with the simple scanline filter, I don't like the blurry look it gives me a headache, it's sharp but you still get the intended effect.
I wonder what undertale or other modern pixel art games would look like with it.
Song in the background sounds a lot like Around The World