I used to do emulation on my Raspberry Pi. It had an analog AV output, so I connected it to an old tube TV I had. The games managed to look better on that than on my HD monitor with HDMI. Even moreso once I figured out how to set the Pi’s video output to 240p (the resolution for most consoles at the time).
Apparently some older games took advantage of CRT screen artifacting to create effects, but they don’t translate very well to LCD or LED screens. Like the waterfalls in the 16 bit Sonic games. On a newer LCD they look like shit, but on a CRT they have a transparent look.
Back then the blurry CRT TV screens did the antialiasing and motion smoothing for free.
I used to do emulation on my Raspberry Pi. It had an analog AV output, so I connected it to an old tube TV I had. The games managed to look better on that than on my HD monitor with HDMI. Even moreso once I figured out how to set the Pi’s video output to 240p (the resolution for most consoles at the time).
Apparently some older games took advantage of CRT screen artifacting to create effects, but they don’t translate very well to LCD or LED screens. Like the waterfalls in the 16 bit Sonic games. On a newer LCD they look like shit, but on a CRT they have a transparent look.