Television emulation...

ryanj · Post by **ryanj** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:10 am

i'm sure this has been discussed to death already, but on the offchance: i saw this on rockpapershotgun.com and immediately thought of my favorite SNES emulator.

http://www.bogost.com/games/a_televisio ... ator.shtml

as much as i love the blur-o-vision filters in zsnes, this looks like a decent stab at emulating an ancient CRT.

Post by **Nach** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:18 am

Why does anyone want to make the picture look worse?

But even so, you should be able to tweak the NTSC filter to make it look as you want.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:30 am

The "texture" effect seems highly questionable to me. Those flat areas of color actually LOOKED LIKE flat areas of color on a real system.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:02 pm

Nach wrote:Why does anyone want to make the picture look worse?

Of course this depends on your definition of "worse". To me a sharp, unfiltered, blocky image is the absolute worst way to present a SNES game for example.

(edit) Ok no wait I lied. HQxX is the worst.

Gil_Hamilton wrote:The "texture" effect seems highly questionable to me. Those flat areas of color actually LOOKED LIKE flat areas of color on a real system.

Well, it is inherently impossible to simulate a glowy old TV on a PC display anyway, just like it is impossible to accurately simulate in a picture what a glowing lightbulb really looks like to us in real life. Of course even if it was, everybody remembers it differently because in olden times there was great variety in TV picture quality. I guess all they can do is try their best to simulate what they remember.

alyxx · Post by **alyxx** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:33 pm

For some reason whenever I try starting the NTSC filter my comp crashes. It never happens on other comps. Must be my graphic card.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:44 pm

ntsc does it better