I could never get into Atari games. While I do love an occasional round of Asteroids, overall the games were too primitive (both visually and in terms of gameplay) to hold much appeal for me. This is pretty impressive, though: UvrpXc8C3S8 You don't need to tell me about the quality of a good CRT; ou...

Christus, you may want to update the main post.

On a semi-related note, it is disappointing that even now, nobody has brought an NES clone to market that's actually any good. The SNES has been cloned to near perfection, and they've done pretty well with the Genesis (even if they can't seem to get the sound quite right--though that varied a bit ev...

[sigh] You know what? You're right. There is more signal degradation than I'd originally realized; perhaps the CRT plays a bit of a mind game. Things appear sharper because you assume "that's as good as it gets," with sort of an automatic background assumption that any lack of clarity or d...

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Christuserloeser wrote:And why are they allowing payment via credit card only when most Germans still don't have credit cards.

Germans don't have credit cards?

That said, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this project. The Dreamcast could use more new releases that aren't just space shooters.

The reasons PS4 and Xbone are stretch goals is understandable though as there likely are additional license fees involved. True, but it seems strange that they are so much farther down the list than SNES and PCEngine. Depending on how the game is constructed, a Dreamcast build could require a bit o...

Nice to see more support for old system, but this particular project needs to hit a $200,000 stretch goal for Dreamcast support and a $250,000 stretch goal for SNES/PCEngine support. That doesn't make much sense to me, for a couple of reasons. For systems as limited as the SNES and PCEngine, wouldn'...

Man, Sunsoft really knew how to work magic with that system... even if they were stuck doing licensed games most of the time.

Whatever happened to them?

That's exactly what I'm saying. The artist is taking advantage of a known CRT flaw to fake a transparency, since the Genesis can't do that in hardware. Lots of Genesis games use stippled graphics for this exact purpose, and while a cleaner picture will give you a sharper image, it will also "ru...

Working on a couple different sets of alternate key caps. Set 1: I bought a set of used black blanks, which I'm going to cut up for their stems and use as the base for the typewriter-style keys. I've got both a package of printable foil and a couple sheets of phosphorescent paper that I can use for ...

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Fancy! Definitely sounds useful, if you have the equipment to utilize it. There are a few other features I can think of that would be nice to add to the BIOS, but they'd be considerably harder to implement, as they'd involve additions to the interface rather than just changing parameters or disablin...

A big part of this will depend on how the game is written. At first I was afraid it might be built with an authoring tool like The Games Factory (a popular option for small indie pixel-art games), in which case a port would be impossible. However, I see from their Kickstarter page that they are actu...

Your broadcast monitor is higher resolution and more precise than most consumer CRT sets, even good ones. It preserves pixel boundaries better and the scanlines are more pronounced with less blurring... both of which are kind of the opposite of the desired effect here. In fact, some games were speci...

...are much less apparent on a normal CRT set than a direct image capture. Even your broadcast monitor won't handle this quite the same way as a consumer TV. Dot crawl is still an issue, but honestly, color bleed on a normal TV blends in with the general CRT artifacts and isn't really noticeable. I ...

Yeah, look how chunky and sharp all the pixels are. The combination of the CRT scanlines and the minor signal degradation from composite really helped soften and disguise that, while keeping the overall image pleasant and clean (unlike the mess made by RF). The only thing I can really compare it to ...

My original plan was to keep it clean. The PS3 was supposed to handle all PlayStation content, and the Wii (between GC compatibility, VC, and homebrew emulation) would take care of everything else. I still had a Dreamcast, just because... but everything else was consolidated into either the PlayStat...

Currently, we have an NES (ZIF connector replaced ~5 years ago), SNES, X'Eye, N64, PS2, and Wii connected to a Sony KV-27FS120 in the bedroom. NES and X'Eye are composite, SNES and N64 are S-Video, and PS2 and Wii are component. Dreamcast, GameCube, Wii U, and PS3 are in the living room on a Sony KD...