Yeah but how many people had a TV with VGA then? That was pretty rare.
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i used a vga cable with my 360 because at the time i didnât have a tv, only a 4:3 pc monitor!
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I rinsed the 360 vga connector with a dell 2007wfp and one of those samsung hdtvs with the really chunky black bezels, takes me back
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I know youâre not doing this but the way youâre posting is the exact same way people would just shit on me for being too poor for luxury television goods in the early 2000s and itâs the wrong kind of nostalgia!!!
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It was crazy how much the 360 cost once you accounted for all the accessories youâd probably need and now so many people online were âso what? Just buy it.
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I yell now with the hindsight that LCDs were just, absolutely god awful until nearly that generation was over
at the time, among all of us who had 360s, the VGA cable was a widespread thing because High Definition televisions were fucking expensive and we all already had the CRT monitors we dragged to college with us (hell, I still have mine, still kicking after 22 years)
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I had an enormous 19â CRT monitor that could do 1600x1200 at 75hz and I excitedly replaced it with an (admittedly very nice for the time) LCD because it was a lot easier to take to LAN parties. Between that and my perfectly sized toshiba CRT TV with component input that I left behind when I went to college and it was inevitably given away⌠I knew not what I had, forgive me.
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there was a year or two my dad had a 1920x1080 CRT we got at the thrift store and it was amazing playing bf1942 et al on it. it was so heavy it felt legitimately dangerous taking it down the basement stairs even with two people holding it. great example of how heâd get something awesome and then just get rid of it without thinking about it at all. i would have been using that monitor for decades if he kept it lol
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the 26" panasonic tv I bought in 2009 had an hdmi input, rca input, component input, and vga input, in addition to the coax tv tuner. oh, plus a thing with the old-style apple connecter so you could dock your iphone 3g on it. oh, and an sd card slot so you could slideshow your digital photos.
the computer monitor i bought the next year had all the same things, except for the iphone dock and sd card slot, with a 35mm headphone jack (because it had built-in speakers) and an extra hdmi port that for some reason doesnât seem to handle 1080p signals well.
still using both, and I kinda still love them both and hope they never die. they feel way more sturdy and reliable than the 55" TV with paltry input options i bought in 2020.
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donât get it wrong, while I love CRTs, I also love being able to move a 55-75in display by myself
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How the fuck do you move a 75â TV yourself
I donât think Iâd trust myself to move a 75â piece of paper solo
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this is probably more in terms of weight than actual logistics
my current TV is 55" and even the box was going âhey this is a two man liftâ
then again my computer case also said it was a two man lift so maybe I just hate myself
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huh? i thought you were one of those freaks who likes stuffing supercomputers into micro-ITX cases. how could one of those be a two-man lift?
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canât believe you would insult my large adult son like this in front of his younger brother
bear in mind the case boxed is only 35 lbs so the two-man lift thing felt weird
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you are correct, but one bit of nuance worth noting: Masters '98: Harukanaru Augusta is, in a sense, the Japanese version of Waialae Country Club. Instead of merely localizing Masters '98, they updated the course as well - making it effectively a different game. The UI is near-identical.
(re: videogame things you think about a lot lot lot lot - #2048 by smbhax )
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Ah yeah thatâs true, even the main menus are nearly the same. And unlike most of their other golf games, those N64 games donât have music during playâa rather startling omission really but that would be another thing they didnât have to change to convert the game. They did give it English voiceover, at least.
Although, aside from the music, I suppose you could say more or less the same thing for a lot of their golf releases, a lot of them shared nearly identical UIs and more or less just changed the course and music. It was how they were able to crank out so darned many of them. ; )
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it is true! and thatâs part of why i needed to hedge my statement a bit, but the important point is this:
the reason Waialae CC N64 didnât come out in Japan is because it was, itself, a localization of a Japan-only game that ended up being its own separate ROM. presumably they thought Hawaii would sell better in the rest of the world, and i guess from the 1m sales they were right
the golf conversation activated me
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this rips so hard
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ââŚI warned you about the T&E soft soundtracks!â Hella Jeff says as he queues up Chaos Separator from the Super Hydlide OST.
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