thouartfrugal
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- Comment on The First J.B Harold Game Is Being Reissued For Switch, But Don't Expect English Text | Time Extension 5 months ago:
Played the DOS version to completion, enjoying every bit of it. Then the TurboGrafx-16 CD version with its satisfying cinematic reveal of the big plot twist. Really wish I could play more games like this!
- Comment on My Pleasure, Sold, and Sure Will! 6 months ago:
The monitor had two obvious problems at first: yellow tint and rainbow patterning. Quick pass with a degaussing coil took care of the latter. Hooked up a composite lead and threw on my low-quality DVD-R copy of my VHS copy of my NTSC Reference Laserdisc and made some quick adjustments to the monitor; results below:
sharpness sharpness
color bars color bars
To make this post somewhat more relevant to the community:
Xexyz (NES) title screen Xexyz (NES) title screen
Xexyz (NES) in-game Xexyz (NES) in-game
The colors in the game look different in these pictures; hard to make them accurate. But it looks good in person.
Was reaching for my blue filter to set Color/Tint when I remembered this monitor has a “Blue Only” feature; pretty neat! Surprisingly, adjusting the Screen control on the flyback transformer seems to have more effect on the white balance than on the contrast. Still, had to maximize the Blue Gain control on the PCB and on the front panel to get the white balance close as possible for the time being. Heck, I might not actually bother with it much further; it looks pretty good. Will have to try the RGB inputs.
- Comment on My Pleasure, Sold, and Sure Will! 6 months ago:
Right you are; this one’s a PVM-8043MD. Looks like it lacks the 16:9 mode, manual degauss and tally light. I believe MD signifies “medical”; removed the cover and there is some shielding around the deflection yoke.
Thank you for mentioning that model number. That page has some good troubleshooting info relevant to the white balance problem I’m seeing with this one. Will post something nice if I can fix it!
- Submitted 6 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 13 comments
