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ed12:
most rca jug's like to lean a tad red..ever note that 1 ?...

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Jack Burton:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 23, 2011, 09:46:55 am ---Makes me wonder if there are any LCD filters that can intentionally make the image a little crappy....

I always leave a couple of rough edges on my machines.  For example, the pinballs will intentionally have a few mismatched rubbers, or I'll leave a couple of overstretched old ones in there.  When I use a CRT, I generally overdrive the red a little.  It's not a question of laziness, it takes just as much time to do it that way as it would to make it 'better than new.'  However, it simulates the visual experience I had growing up playing the games.

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I kind of agree with you there.  Having a "perfect" image kind of takes away from the magic a little bit.  For games like black backgrounds and white text I'll usually crank the contrast up just a little bit high so that the whites bloom a bit and it gets that nice arcade glow around the high score with the lights off.  


--- Quote from: ed12 on November 23, 2011, 11:07:38 pm ---most rca jug's like to lean a tad red..ever note that 1 ?...

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Not really sure what a "jug" is, but I do know that most tv's push red.   They're set that way at the factory because apparently people think an overly red image looks better.  I always go into the service menu and turn it back down if I can.

Who knows, maybe in the past some arcade ops or companies would dial up the red a little bit like pinballjim said in order to make the games seem to have some more "pop" (hate that word).

Paul Olson:

--- Quote from: Paul Olson on November 20, 2011, 02:55:55 am ---



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This one has HLSL enabled. Not sure if you can tell the difference in the snapshot, but the game screen looks a lot more arcade authentic. This is the result I wanted when I decided to go with an LCD - scanlines on the game screen and hi res artwork around it. I never would have guessed it was already this far along.
Ignore the ugly layout on the DK; it is a work in progress that needs a lot of work (and different artwork). I think you can see the HLSL difference a little better in this one though.
wizkid32:
I might add that some arcade machines used LCD monitors...  I plan on using one simply for availability.  Please no hate comments about MY choice.  Besides, M.A.M.E. has the option to mimic scanlines if I really want an lower quality picture...
Jack Burton:

--- Quote from: wizkid32 on November 27, 2011, 07:24:59 pm ---Please no hate comments about MY choice. Besides, M.A.M.E. has the option to mimic scanlines if I really want an lower quality picture...

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No hate, just astonishment at the ignorance displayed if you think just turning on regular old scanlines in MAME in any way approximates the look of a CRT after reading this entire thread. 

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