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actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

3D graphics were incredibly primitive back then. There really weren’t “3D processors” as we know them today.

On top of that, CRTs masked many of the weirdest graphical artifacts - the shimmering we see on modern screens was much more of a blur on screens at the time.

It’s fun to look back at the PlayStation and the N64, and to see how each of them handled limitations in a different way.

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djdarren@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This Noodle video on how old games were developed with CRT in mind was absolutely mind-blowing to me.

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- floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, for example when emulating GB/GBC/GBA games, simulating the slow LCD response time makes all the difference. Jittery shaking animations become soft blurs, and everything feels much closer to the authentic hardware
  
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fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Pixels on a CRT aren‘t quadratic. Light bleeds between them, and persisted between frames. That was definitely some kind of post processing you could call masking and the games of that era leaned heavily into it. Hardware and games were designed to be displayed on a CRT.
  
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  - fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    CRTs don’t „have“ pixels, but they display a signals that originated from a pixelised source.
    
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- chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This reads like someone who was born after the CRT era trying to describe them. No, you’re just wrong about that. CRT monitors had a huge effect on the output of the visuals in contrast with modern screens.
  
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  - fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Were you hoping for a forum where people didn’t call you out on your nonsense?
    
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- actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not sure how to reply to this.
  
  Mainly because my own math skill is unrelated to processor technology of the late 1990s.
  
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LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Resident evil for N64 is mind boggling how they were able to shrink it down enough to fit on that tiny rom chip.

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