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The biggest difference you’re going to see for fidelity on CRT displays will be improvements for 2d and early 3d games. There are some SNES games with some great art styles that are better suited to CRT. If you like RPGs, I’d check out Shadowrun, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, and Super Mario RPG. For 3D games, FFVII is one that particularly stands out for me as looking pretty bad on modern monitors but pretty good on CRT. Even something like Goldeneye for N64, which looks comically bad on modern screens, was a lot nicer looking at the time.

Admittedly, especially in the case of Goldeneye, some of this may just be that the games looked comparatively better before later 3D gave it us a better basis for comparison, but CRT is at least a factor. SNES games really shine with CRT, though. The art styles had really come into their own in that final 2D console generation, and a lot of them look much better than what followed on the first 3D consoles.

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thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And that’s not a coincidence. Not all, but the best pixel artists took the limitations and quirks of the tech from that era into account when designing. Not only the CRT technology with scanlines and other properties, also the cable connection you got plays a huge role. Not only on SNES, but also very apparent on the Mega Drive / Genesis. Nowadays I play old systems on emulators only and don’t want to miss a good Shader which simulates old CRT effects. They get pretty close to the original thing (depending on the shader and depending on to what monitor you compare).

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- thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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  - popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Let’s not forget possibly the most iconic one, Dracula from Symphony of the Night
    
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    Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    99% sure this one is fake, every time it gets posted its mentioned that his eyes are doctored
    
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worhui@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Would the nintwndo switch remakes of the Square game through HDMI also carry the improved look?

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- hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t have a switch so I don ‘t really know. Emulators that simulate CRT blur aren’t terrible, but they’re not really the same. I think most of the remakes tend to have more modern looking pixel graphics, though, so it’s not going to be quite the same as genuine CRT blur.
  
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  - worhui@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I was thinking of running the switch games though the crt.
    
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    FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If it’s not doing any processing to the image maybe, it’s certainly worth a try.
    
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