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Which one? There a dozens commonly used ones. All of these games are from the CRT era and were developed on and for CRT monitors.

Might and Magic Book One

Notice the dithering pattern on the characters in this screenshot:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1619/might-and-magic-book-one-secret-of-the-inner-sanctum/screenshots/dos/115836/

This was only done for CRTs, since it results in blended pixels.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2

More CRT dithering everywhere, just two generations later and with more colors and fine detail - but it’s still the same technique:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1513/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-the-succession-wars/screenshots/dos/634491/

Carmageddon

https://www.mobygames.com/game/367/carmageddon/screenshots/dos/887670/

Notice the color banding on the textures? CRTs blend that together, resulting in a much smoother look even with software rendering.

Elder Scrolls Arena

https://www.mobygames.com/game/803/the-elder-scrolls-arena/screenshots/dos/305893/

Our old friend Mr Dithering makes an appearance once again.

I hope I’ve made my point clear. It’s fine if you prefer the clean pixelated look of LCD displays, but it’s clear that this is not what these games were meant to look like.

A cash grab is what they did with the sloppy re-release of Chrono Trigger, which is vastly inferior to the original game on original hardware - or running a ROM Hack with bug fixes (or even just the game as it released originally) in a cycle-accurate emulator.

Remaking a game from the ground up with AAA production values is a costly and complex endeavor - and a risky one too, even with a titles as popular as Final Fantasy VII, since there is no guarantee fans will enjoy it. Almost the same kind of high risks as with any other game production of this sort of scale apply here. And while I haven’t played these remakes, their reception seems to indicate that they are anything but cynical cash grabs.

Thanks for the reply. I might come back to you at some point.

A quick heads up: For some reason, this reply does not appear in my Inbox here on Beehaw. No idea why, maybe it’s worth looking into.

All I’m saying is… BIGDADDY.

Any cool webcomics you can recommend? Doesn’t matter how obscure or weird they might be. I haven’t read any, not even xkcd, in ages.

The motor that pulls in the filament is ridiculously strong on this printer. It has never been unable to feed, even if it had to drag the entire printer or a full filament roll across the table. It has broken filament holders and arms, to the point that I had to modify the current solution with a metal core so that it wouldn’t snap apart. I’m feeding from a filament dryer and I had build a crazy contraption that fixes the thing in place so that it’s not dragged around by the sheer torque of this motor - and after this mishap, I have clamped the printer down with metal profiles. My worry is that the next time a filament roll gets stuck sideways in the dryer, the printer will tear itself apart or at the very least dislocate the print head (or destroy the plastic housing of the dryer). We’ll see.

Either way, I adore this thing. With careful calibration and the properly dried and stored material (mostly that, I have to admit), I’ve been able to exceed the print quality of printers more than ten times as expensive, make complex functional prints within days of setting the thing up for the first time. It just took two or three times as long per print.

You’ll quickly realize that this place isn’t fundamentally different from reddit from an end-user perspective. The same highly opinionated people who think they are better than you (I’m not excluding myself from this, but there are quite a few others here who tend to lean far more left politically than your typical reddit user, sometimes until they fall on their knees and kiss Stalin’s boots), the same kind of moderators with god complexes as in every other forum ever since forums have existed, the same misinformation and propaganda, the same potential for people to ruin your day by showing their true colors. The best intentions by the creators don’t really change all that much, because they are flawed human being like all of us and because it’s ultimately still just the same flawed human beings who make up the user base, people who are not suddenly behaving differently, just because there’s some vague rule to “bee nice” in the sidebar.

Make a decentralized copy of reddit and you get people behaving like they are on reddit, it’s as simple as that.

You can totally have nice time here and I have managed to get my own blood pressure back down to the usual far too low levels by blocking a few communities with the worst moderators and users (or with topics that showed less flattering sides of their personalities and beliefs) and spending more time on topics that offer less potential for conflict, but ultimately, it’s the same ol’ as smaller subreddits or smaller forums of old. The best thing you can do is use Beehaw like a smoker would use an e-cig: As a (hopefully) less harmful detox from social media that ultimately leads to abstinence. I’m not there yet and might never get there, because it’s still social media and still addictive.

Either way, welcome to smaller reddit with bees and lemmings. Sorry for the slightly less upbeat introduction and I hope you’ll still enjoy your stay.

I had a nice day playing board games with my family (Dorfromantik ftw!) and wrestling with my cheap 3D printer (Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro) - which is strong enough to lift itself, not exactly light at 8.1kg, almost entirely off the table on a filament string. Can you believe it? I wish I had taken a photo of this mishap.

Original hardware, especially CRTs, is increasingly difficult to find and getting more expensive and less reliable by the day (both of my N64 are completely dead right now - just from sitting unused in a dry cupboard for a few years).

Love it or hate it, this is the future of retro gaming.

Up to a certain point in the early to mid 2000s, virtually all home console and PC games were designed for CRT displays. I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea from that the type of display that was used by 99% of gamers on these systems was somehow not influencing the art design and technology of games.

Happy to help. If you don’t like this shader, but end up preferring a different one, I’d love to hear about it.

Clickbait would not include in the title that the secret is CRT shaders.

I’m currently toying around with ares (the only fully cycle-accurate SNES emulator) and it has a lovely selection of CRT shaders (that are also available for other emulators). Try out crt-maximus-royale (or the half-res-mode variant). At least to me, the latter looks perfect, with just the right amount of blur, distortion, bloom and scanlines - and it comes with lovely details, like the bezel reflecting the image in real time and speaker grills filling the rest of the screen.

Someone uploaded a gallery with various games to reddit that shows just how versatile this shader is:

https://old.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/1ag834e/while_mega_bezels_is_great_and_all_i_think_the/

Now I’m curious what your criteria are. Do none of the shaders shown in the video appeal to you? To me at least, they look remarkably close to several types of old CRT TVs that I remember.

Thanks. I shall avoid the motion blur variant as best as I can, because that’s one of several aspects of this device I do not remember fondly.

I borrowed a friend’s Game Boy for an afternoon when I was a kid and I was so disappointed by it (primarily the screen, but also poor ergonomics and the limited nature of its games) that I lost nearly all interest in gaming for a year.

It’s been that way since at least the first Trump administration. The sanewashing continues.

Does this shader also replicate the horrific motion blur that the display of the original GameBoy suffered from?

Shadowrun (SNES)

I had never even heard of this game, but reading the description on Wikipedia, it sounds absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll definitely give it a go!

I’m using emulation, so this doesn’t matter to me. Thanks for the recommendation!

I’m definitely counting translations! Being able to play games that would otherwise be behind a language barrier is a wonderful thing.

No worries, I should have been more clear on that. Thanks for the list!

(And bloody hell, why do people keep using Discord for this?)