I've found that it works pretty decently on a 16" portable monitor (and with a second controller plugged in--retains the portability for a nice 2-player experience you can bring with you) but I haven't done extensive trials on a big-screen TV.
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Retrogaming Hardware
This was on a 20-inch screen, might have to fiddle with some settings
Started this sort of stream of consciousness earlier thinking about how the consumer-grade technology advances made in the early-to-mid-2000s completely changed how we arranged our living rooms and how that cascaded out into various aspects of product design, including consoles. Like, consoles used to be designed with the certainty of exactly how far the player could be from the console, and then larger displays that necessitated sitting further away came along, and then low-latency wireless controllers came along, and suddenly you had to think about things like how nothing past the Gamecube can ever have the power button on the top of the console again* because now that console is in the entertainment center across the room and not a maximum of 2 metres away on the carpet or on a coffee table. Same for top-loading disc mechanisms; those had to be retired in favour of pop-out trays or slot-loading mechanisms. Controllers need a way to remotely turn the console on and off because of how annoying it would be to do it manually every time. Everything adopted the HDMI-CEC standard. Entertainment centers changed from big vertical cabinets to low horizontal ones to accommodate wider TVs, and every device in the cabinet had to become flatter in turn. It's neat stuff to think about! I'll bet someone into the history of furniture could tell you a lot about how like, sofas and coffee tables changed, either in design or even just arrangement.
*except the Switch, but I mean, come on.
*except the Switch, but I mean, come on.
Yeah, when I was a kid we had this enormous wooden entertainment center that went from the floor to the ceiling, had room for up to a 32 inch CRT, a slide out panel for CDs/VHSs, a door with a glass window where my dad kept all his audiophile equipment that I was told not to touch when I was a kid, and a drawer under the TV that we basically used as a junk drawer. It took up most of the wall it was up against. In the basement, we had one of those console TVs sitting on the floor that you turned on my turning the volume up, with just a RF input, which is where I played videogames through the N64 era.
Now my wife and I have a very wide, low, black wooden basically platform, mostly filled with my wife's DVDs, where I have to figure out where to put all my systems next to our enormous 70 inch 4k HDTV. It is fascinating how much that has changed just in my lifetime (I'm in my 30s).
Now my wife and I have a very wide, low, black wooden basically platform, mostly filled with my wife's DVDs, where I have to figure out where to put all my systems next to our enormous 70 inch 4k HDTV. It is fascinating how much that has changed just in my lifetime (I'm in my 30s).
ArugulaZ
Fearful asymmetry
I for one welcomed our thinner, lighter, sharper LCD overlords. I know people romanticize them, but realistically, I think we all knew CRTs were a pain in the ass, and I'm quite happy to leave their ponderous bulk and power sucking design in the past where they belong. A fourteen inch CRT set for the sake of nostalgia and compatibility with older consoles is fine, but anything larger than 20 inches and I am out.
That's not a judgement call; I obviously prefer my big flatscreen setup. I was just putting together a lot of thoughts aboud things I hadn't thought much about previously since I just bought a new entertainment center and realized what a pain in the ass it is to turn the Gamecube on.
ArugulaZ
Fearful asymmetry
Phantoon: I thought it was common knowledge that CRTs use significantly more energy than LCD and other television models. Just in case, I did a quick Google search, and this study seems to verify that.
Research conducted by E Source, an energy efficiency and technology company, in 2011 compared a 55-inch of each style for five hours in active, or “on,” mode. The CRT set used a staggering 400 watts (W) followed distantly by the plasma and LCD sets at 165 W and finally by the LED at 155 W. The data also revealed that the same televisions in standby mode (when the television is turned off, but still plugged in and drawing some power) for 19 hours a day, the CRT drew 8 W compared to the LCD drawing .4 W. And a 25-inch CRT used more power than a 35-inch LCD at 95 W and 65 W respectively.
Phantoon
I cuss you bad
That's true, but nobody I know ever had a 55 inch CRT. They were much, much smaller. Whereas now the sky is the limit, and the bigger TVs are comparable in power consumption. I'll bet if you compared electrical consumption now with then there will be very little difference.
On the one hand, 50 inch CRTs could double as shelving all on their own.
On the other hand, nothing else about them was a good idea
On the other hand, nothing else about them was a good idea
We had one which cost at least twice what a 50 inch tv costs now, without adjusting for inflation, and was about the size of a small couch
Not appreciably
Well, that depends on how much you enjoy them.
I'm not a fan myself, but I won't tell you you're wrong if you feel differently.
I'm not a fan myself, but I won't tell you you're wrong if you feel differently.
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
I do suspect that with OLED tech and high enough resolution coupled with CRT filters, it's close enough for most people. I'd consider getting an OLED, but the 4:3 aspect ratio of so much content I consume plus using it as a monitor makes the burn-in/uneven wear problem terrifying to me.
Ludendorkk
(he/him)
Yeah this is how I feel, LCDs really just can't replicate the effect properly due to the difference in how the technology works. I do like some of the "dot matrix" type filters though
I’m not sure if this is a setting I accidentally bungled (accidentally reset the Retroarchs settings and spent a good long while trying to get it back the way I liked) or something else, but it’s taking me a longer time than before to create and load savestates on my Retroid. It used to be instant, and now there’s a good five second delay before it’ll load or save anything.
Anyone know why?
EDIT!
AHA! Buried unintuitively, several menus deep was an option where nothing about its name would suggest "speed up writing and loading save states" (Threaded Tasks), which I had turned off.
Anyone know why?
EDIT!
AHA! Buried unintuitively, several menus deep was an option where nothing about its name would suggest "speed up writing and loading save states" (Threaded Tasks), which I had turned off.
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I don't know if the Super Nt retains its power state once it loses electricity, but if it does: smart outlet. I had one for my MiSTer for a while, you could just yell at the thing to turn it on.
This is potentially a much more elegant solution for my Gamecube problem than the one I was considering: a wifi-enabled robot finger.
Counterpoint: wifi-enabled robot finger is fucking hilarious.
Purple
(She/Her)
I know I'm repeating a little, but to get all the answers in one spot:
1. Yes for CDs, no for cards. But if you're paying for a PCE, grabbing an Everdrive (will only play Hueys, not CD games) for like $70 is probably worth it, and that will do both regions no problem.
2. This is true, and you should be able to handle it yourself, but.... (See 4)
3. I personally use a Duo-R with an Arcade Card Pro, but with Duo-R/RX or American TurboDuo you ONLY need a card if you want to play Arcade Card games, which, uh... you probably don't care all that much, there are very few games that need it and the majority are Neo-Geo ports. As for other models (PCE with add-on OR Japanese pre-R Duo models), you'd want the 3.0 card, a.k.a. the Super CD ROM card, because a good portion of the library is Super CD-ROM2 games, which are unplayable without that.
4. Composite is the best you'll get without a mod or the SSD3 from massive dickheads TerraOnion. If you get a video output mod, most modders will do the recap, too. That's how I got mine done.
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
Anyone got feedback on the best place to get Neo Geo MVS boards? I've actually got two, but they both have issues and I'm not sure I want to trace them all out right now (although I do have leads on what may be wrong with one). I was looking on Arcade Projects and saw this one for $150. I have no idea if that's a terrible price or not, but it doesn't look like a bad deal with an installed UniBIOS 4.0 and a battery mod.