The save game he's currently on is 10 years older than he is.
His feedback so far is the "graphics are pretty cool for an ancient game" and he didn't like the fact the crowd sang "you suck" during Angle's theme tune. I explained the context afterwards 😅
Pretty cool watching my kid enjoying my childhood game.
Hey team
I use my CRT mainly for older games but I have it hooked up to a fairly powerful GPU. Anyway, I've been doing a run of GTA 4 lately and saw a video on YouTube with DLSS5 being applied to older games. Obviously everyone trying this is doing it with modern hardware and monitors so I thought I'd give it a try on my CRT. Here's how it looks!
Visually I think it's great but performance does suffer, I'm sitting around 40fps. But I expect this will improve with further optimisations over time. If anyone wants to see other games let me know.
I moved to this house 2 years ago and finally have my office the way I like it. Nothing beats the warm glow of CRTs and with autumn/winter and darker nights moving in I'm looking forward to many an evening in here enjoy past and present games!!
Stay with me, and hear me out 😅
I'm not talking an all singing all dancing port like we've seen recently with the Dreamcast..
But recent "impossible" ports from very skilled devs have got me wondering what would be possible on the Saturn.
Maybe one Island only, reduced missions, draw level restrictions and limited variety in cars and NPCs. Could we see it? Would you want to see it?
Nowadays with modern techniques, Devs would make much better use of the VDP chips than what we seen in the 90s. Rather than making VDP1 draw every road, pavement and large flat surface, VDP2 could handle much of the ground as enormous tiled/rotating planes. It's specifically capable of large transformed background planes, leaving VDP1 to concentrate on your character, Peds, cars, street furniture etc.
What do you think?
This is my original copy of SA, on my childhood PS2 with my original memory card.
It's weird to think that when I saved that top save in 2005 -
The first ever YouTube video was still a couple weeks away from being uploaded.
50 Cent Candy Shop was number 1 in the US.
George W Bush and Tony Blair were still in charge.
Pope John Paul II had died that day.
Windows XP was dominant.
Revenge of the Sith would be out in cinemas in a few weeks.
At least it was until this comparison f**ked everything up.
My PS2 OG 🤝 GTA 5 enhanced
San Andreas is my favourite art style.
Got a PVM last week and been playing lots of 240p games like sega and PS1 as that's where this screen really shines. But this evening I decided to fire up GTA 5 on the 360 and connect it via composite and here's the results. In comparison I have GTA 5 enhanced on ultra settings. The 360 definitely holds it's own!
I enjoy CRT gaming and recently acquired an old school PVM (professional video monitor). These bad boys were used back in the 90s/00s in video editing suites and have an abundance of analogue connections.
Anyway I decided to hook my 360 up to it via component and give GTA 5 a go. It looked truly amazing, all things considered.
I then fired up GTA 5 Enhanced on ultra settings as a comparison.
Graphically it's night and day, but man, that 2013 vibe hits hard. The colours are great.
PVM's (professional video monitor) like this were used back in the day by film and TV studios (like Paramount) in their editing suites as they provided the best and most accurate visual reference for films. It's almost certain they were used while editing this movie. I've watched First Contact countless times since I was a boy, but this was extra special. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Back when it was released, I was a teenager and could only run it via composite on a cheap TV. After picking up this PVM over the weekend, I got it hooked up to my childhood PS2 and ran it alongside my Sun. I know there's a lot of hate for the definitive edition, but I think both versions have their share of upsides and poor areas. For me, they're unique experiences both visually and physically. I can't decide which one I prefer, I love them both.
PVM 14M2MDE > Fat PS2 via Component > OG game.
Alongside
Sun Microsystems X7149A > RTX 4070 Ti Super via StarTech DP2VGAHD20 > Definitive edition ultra settings 2048x1536 85hz.
Could hear laughing coming from my office, so peaked in to be greeted by this. It's so cool to see my kids playing my original 360, that I bought with my saved up paperboy money back in 2006. Other than brief arguments over who's turn it was, they had a blast playing Sonic Generations together. My 9 year old even managed to beat one of my times that I'd set back in 2012 🥲
But he'd argue it's still "too new to be called retro"
Saw a post on a CRT FB group (can't remember which one) the other day re forcing their diamondtron to display a 240p signal. I tinkered about with their settings and achieved a pretty good result. The Tekken 2 pictures is my "240p" which is basically 2560x240 @120hz versus my usual 2048x1536 @85hz. The rest of the pictures are just the 240p setting. Tried it on Vice City for something a bit different - really enjoyed how it turned out.
Don't come at me for them being the wrong way round 😂 Always wanted a dual monitor setup back in the day. Teenage me didn't possess the fiscal ability to make it happen. Today is the day.
I'll let the pictures do the talking. But needless to say, I won't be gaming on anything else.
Picked up this absolute beauty last week, by amazing luck it was local to me, only a 30 minute drive away. This rebadged Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB has only done 690 hours and you can tell. The guy I bought it from explained he used to have around 20 of these monitors, which he leased to a company in Soho, London. The company kept them on retainer, reserving the option to use them if/where required, but he explained they rarely took up that option, hence the ridiculously low usage on them. The display is absolutely stunning and I'm looking forward to many happy years using this beast!
This is a huge milestone for me and I have no one to share it with, so I'm putting it here so at least someone sees it 😅
About 7 years ago I injured my wrist badly enough to need surgery. Post-op I was sent home with a prescription of 200 30/500 cocodamol with zero education around addiction risk. I was prescribed at least 5-600 more before my doctor cut me off, and so began my journey to acquire opiates any way I could online or combining over the counter meds in local stores.
I took codeine, in various forms and amounts, every single day, for 6 years. It completely controlled my life, priorities, decisions and mood. If I was running low I'd be anxious and irritable until I secured my next supply. If I had plenty, I'd be on top of the world. Codeine made everything great and bearable, nothing was an issue. If I didn't have any, life was a disaster.
And through it all, I hid my addiction completely. To this day, my wife, friends and family have no idea that I was popping 18-25 pills per day every day for years.
Throughout this period, I had a couple of kids and I knew that sooner or later, I'd have to stop. If not for me, then for them, because they deserved a father that would still be with them in the years to come.
So 1002 days ago I finally made the decision to change my life. I decided I would never take Opioids again, no matter what, under no circumstances. No excuses.
I had zero support because the shame I felt throughout it all meant I couldn't tell anyone. And now as I celebrate 1000 days sober, I can't celebrate with anyone either.
So I'm putting it here, because this is a pretty fucking big deal for me, and I need someone else to know.
Thanks for reading!
I bought this Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17 locally on Thursday. Got it up and running and everything was great until Friday afternoon. Had just finished a game of C&C when I returned to desktop and noticed the brightness had suddenly maxed out. Also the edges of the picture were warped. I turned the screen off and back on again and it was back to normal. However, I then fully turned off the PC and when I switched it back on a few hours later it was like this. It had been kept in a loft continuously since 2004 before I picked it up, and it smells pretty bad inside (the house i picked it up from was a mess) so I guess this was always possible but I'm gutted. I live in Glasgow so it's pretty rare for decent CRT monitors to pop up in my area. Currently on a mission to find someone to take a look at it. Hoping it's not too complex a repair?