r/crtgaming

By the grace of Akatosh, I entered a time wound.

Hey so I had made a post on how I should connect my crt to my pc everyone was saying I should set the custom crt to 540p but there's so many other settings not only that but whenever I get done booting up my TV it says unsupported it has HDMI but it only support 1080i any help would be very appreciated and I don't mean to be annoying

Been using this 27inch Sony as my main gaming/VHS tv the past few months and it's been incredible. KV-27TX20. Got surround sound and picture adjustments on the TV itself, and a huge remote control. Got it for free from someone moving house!

Now I just need to find more 80s/90s shows but I wish they included commercials. I did finally sneak a soundbar behind the setup but the TG16 audio is still going through the PVM mono speaker for now so I can get dual audio.

Heres some before and after photos of the room!Looking for any ideas or things I might wanna put in here! Got a fun rug coming in and some black lights. Need to find game posters of the era. Any ideas welcome!

Please ignore the weird geometry.

Any tips? I think it reminds me of a PVM, but I've never seen one irl, only close up photos.

*it's actually 240p component

Happy with my little retro game area. Lots of stuff has been painted/wrapped/modded which is why you'll see some non-standard looking stuff. Controllers are all wireless and everything is running flashcarts or SD cards (the non-official console is a Retron 3. Not the best audio but otherwise good enough for me). TV is a 32" JVC D-Series

The VHS deck was cooked. Missing gears, snapped belt, stick tape, and jammed gears. pretty much unsalvageable unfortunately. Not like I care much, I just want it for the tube. If you don't care about the VHS deck, my solution was to manually remove the mode switch, manually reposition it into eject, and rehook everything back up.

Here it is in a rough drawing scale, it would have: a 27-32 inch component 4:3 crt from a decent brand (like my toshiba-orion), a fat ps2 w/ sata hdd adapter thingy, wii with gc support (rvl-001), and be on a desk that is 2' deep 4' long, preferably 30" tall. Note: both the ps2 and wii would be over component, and the wii would be used for 90% of my retro games.

I turned my monitor on after like 2 days and it looked like this. It looked completely fine before and I don’t think or know of anything I could’ve done to cause this. I kinda just did it on its own.

I’m not really sure where to go from here or what to do, so any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: Sorry I should’ve put this originally, but the adjustments were the same as before, and changing them doesn’t affect the geometry very much.

My first ever crt I absolutely love it and its right next to my oled:

The model of my crt: JVC BMH1300SU

Hi everybody !
I tried the new released demo of DERELIKT on steam so I had to try it on my CRT monitor at 1024x768. The demo is pretty long ( around 1 hours) and the game feel great.
I played with the low res setting and it made me wonder.

What do you guys think of the new "trend" for ps1 graphics in indie games ?
I am very mixed feeling, I like the vibes and what it can bring, but it doesnt itch my nostalgia that much.
I find it very hard on the eyes while playing on anything other than 240p and it need way more effect to work for me.

Can't get over how great this game looks on a CRT. Running at 1600x1200 and I can turn everything up to the max settings on a 9070 XT at get consistent 75 fps vsync'd.

I just got this Samsung TXJ2554 CRT recently for 100 bucks on facebook and have been going crazy over trying to get the screen to look just right. I’ll finally adjust it perfectly and then will come back to it a little later and will be like “oh it looks awful!” And spend like 20 mins staring at it and changing the settings and then running back to get a good view at it and running back like “just got to tweak the color down just a Tiiiinnnyy bit” and then I do that process over and over again until I’ve stared at it enough that I’ve tricked my brain into thinking that’s how it should look and I don’t know what to put it to. Please let me know like what the bars should be set to and how colorful it should look and everything.

Haven't had much time to use it, but it looks good and glad i do not have to deal with windas lol I was surprised to see that it has 2 VGA ports. These use Trinitron tubes

S video cables for the 64 and cube. Looks amazing in person!