i cant believe you’ve all forgotten select button made the fucking sunfish game
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PC version of Remako hit “1.0”
said to be compatible with other mods
Here’s a trailer
and here’s 12 minutes of gameplay
yikes, I think I’m extremely sensitive to neural net image processing artifacts if most people think that looks pretty good
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it looks like Lego Final Fantasy VII
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the solution to higher resolution displays and the desire to play ancient games designed for low resolutions is simple. manufacture new crts
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final fantasy vii looks like lego final fantasy vii
I’m surprised there hasn’t been some kind of kickstarter or something for a boutique project like that. maybe it’s not feasible cost wise on a small scale? surely someone could do it…?
From what I’m hearing from speedrunners of older games, upscalers do the job pretty well without introducing a ton of input lag.
I think one of the things with CRTs is that they closed every single factory that could do manufacturing so now it’s become a lost thing
kind of like the 3-strip process of Technicolor film, the patent to which they sold off
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new crts are still made (perhaps from existing tube stock?), they are shit, there’s no way anyone could produce something good for what they cost when new in-period, which was up to tens of thousands of dollars for the kind of stuff people care about today, let alone less
crt simulation on contemporary displays is essentially close enough it just needs extra res to push it over the edge
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AI/Machine learning stuff goes way beyond regular upscaling
Here’s an FF8 mod, which used a photoshop script, rather than AI
are people nostalgic for their psx games to look like the emulated super eagle filtered snes games of their childhood
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isn’t there like, literally one record factory that’s had to handle all the new demand since the vinyl revival? i wonder if that’ll always be a bottleneck, even as demand keeps rising.
nah there’s a different quality of light to CRTs. more radiant and fizzly. also some slight optical distortion going on? last time i watched a scrolling image on an arcade cabinet it somehow seemed more “rapid” than the equivalent on a flat display. i know you can emulate the barrel effect, but it doesn’t convey the sense of distance between the image and the glass.
I actually read about this, there’s a few around the world and they’ve essentially been refurbished and I think the main one in the here in the States also do some manufacturing for the press equipment as well, though I’m probably misremembering because that’s my thing
there’s probably some stuff that will never fully be captured, sure. i doubt like, 3ds-style stereoscopy or elaborate headtracking will be brought to bear on faking geometry; VR? just put a piece of curved glass in front? rear projection? stuff like phosphor emission + glow, beam/subpixel+mask stuff is so close, i will argue as the real meat, all the pieces are here and will get all the way there, i think.
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CRT shaders on my nice TV definitely look better (under extremely subjective metrics) than my 2005 progressive-scan midbudget CRT that got dragged to SBCON1
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I believe there are at least a dozen vinyl presses operating but it’s still not near enough to meet demand. the real problem is that no one manufactures the lathes that press vinyl anymore and there are not many left in the world that still operate reliably enough for commercial production.
the machines that exist are still prone to failure and are expensive/difficult to maintain. there isn’t really an easy solution. further innovation on how to produce vinyl more cheaply and efficiently might be possible I guess, but I’m not sure if there’s ever going to be enough profit motive for anyone to find out. would be nice if enthusiasts could come through with something, would be even nicer if profit motive wasn’t necessary for these things to happen.
I imagine the barriers for cost effective production of CRT television sets are even more imposing.
(further reading on the whole vinyl issue, though this article is kind of old now so I’d be interested in seeing if anything has changed since then)
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I think the Vinyl situation is one of those things where its gonna stay the way it is until things break to the point of widespread, non-trivial production halts and we gotta figure out how to 3D print parts or there will be no more vinyl.
Yesss, Ken Sugimori is my kin 
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The once and future king is back, baby!
I may literally only play Bungie games from now on.
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