I don’t have a real life reference point for CRTs, so for me just going from these flat images to something that suddenly looked like there was more detail sold me on it. Prior to that my assumption had been old games on modern displays must be better until comparisons made me see how there was actually more attempts to be more than mspaint type pixel presentation back in the day.
So these raw pixels look even less realistic to how the final product actually ended up coming out back on old devices to me. So between the two unrealistic options I prefer Crt filters now, and I in the past hadn’t liked them either thinking all people had wanted was scanlines.
What games are you playing that have CRT filters that make things look better for you? Most CRT filters I’ve just put fake scan lines over the image, which to me, looks neither more accurate nor better (but I suppose it’s all a matter of opinion.)
I’ve liked it for snes games and for like ps1 era games, but yeah it is subjective. I do get it, since for a long I defaulted to no CRT filters. Emulation is freedom after all, so shaders exist for those who want it or not with some doing opposite of CRT shaders where instead it smooths out pixels for a different look.
I don’t have a real life reference point for CRTs, so for me just going from these flat images to something that suddenly looked like there was more detail sold me on it. Prior to that my assumption had been old games on modern displays must be better until comparisons made me see how there was actually more attempts to be more than mspaint type pixel presentation back in the day.
So these raw pixels look even less realistic to how the final product actually ended up coming out back on old devices to me. So between the two unrealistic options I prefer Crt filters now, and I in the past hadn’t liked them either thinking all people had wanted was scanlines.
What games are you playing that have CRT filters that make things look better for you? Most CRT filters I’ve just put fake scan lines over the image, which to me, looks neither more accurate nor better (but I suppose it’s all a matter of opinion.)
I’ve liked it for snes games and for like ps1 era games, but yeah it is subjective. I do get it, since for a long I defaulted to no CRT filters. Emulation is freedom after all, so shaders exist for those who want it or not with some doing opposite of CRT shaders where instead it smooths out pixels for a different look.