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How do you make an LCD image into a CRT image?
nitz:
Outputting the games in their original resolutions isn't going to give you a CRT look on an LCD. LCDs can only display one resolution - their native resolution. Sure, you can send other resolutions to it, but the LCD just scales it to its native res, and generally does a bad job of it at that.
Mame's HLSL is the best way to go, you can tweak it to look pretty much however you want. If your video card isn't up to the task and you feel that just having scanlines is enough, get the scanline generator.
matsadona:
Now it seems that everybody was assuming that you use MAME, but if you have something like the 60-in-1 boards, you need gizmos like this one: http://www.arcadeshop.de/Audio-Video-Scanline-Generator-SLG3000-v2_1078.html
Hm... I'm to tired today, and now I realize that others already answered the same thing.
dmarcum99:
Order the mini-SLG....
It creates scan lines to the picture and makes the image TONS better. Granted, it's not arcade authentic, but you're playing on actual arcade hardware either.
My 60-in-1 has it and it's awesome....like playing on a flat-screened crt.
MonMotha:
--- Quote from: nitz on July 13, 2013, 03:04:24 pm ---Outputting the games in their original resolutions isn't going to give you a CRT look on an LCD. LCDs can only display one resolution - their native resolution. Sure, you can send other resolutions to it, but the LCD just scales it to its native res, and generally does a bad job of it at that.
--- End quote ---
Not only that, but the vast majority of LCD (PC monitors and TVs) won't accept classic ("standard res") arcade resolutions on their RGB analog inputs at all. You'll either get an out of range message or a garbled image.
So not only is it ineffective it may not work at all.
Of course, if you've got a CRT arcade monitor, native res is the way to go.
DickTurpin:
I don't agree. I have seen the difference. It might not be arcade perfect but it is very good. Each to their own.
EDIT: This graphics card is perfect for an original monitor. But decent for LCD.
Reason for edit: I was wrong. :o
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