What's the /v/ approved alternative?

>>714590856 (OP)
Emulators.

erm that's illegal just pay nintendo for nintendo online

>>714590941
>just emulate on your TV in the other room bro

>/v/-approved
Stop being an NPC and think for yourself.

People will tell you either emulate or play on a CRT but the reality is nothing is as good as the Tink 4K. It's a league of its own product

>>714591496
I don't want to pay $750 though

>>714590941
too normalfag imo

>>714591553
Alright. Sorry?

>>714590856 (OP)
Most subtle advertising thread

why the think does it cost ps5 pro price for an upscaler

>>714590856 (OP)
Taking a shit in a toilet. Fuck off, shill.
Either go with original hardware or set up Retroarch/individual emulators.

>>714591171
>he doesn't connect his TV to PC

>>714592346
FPGAs aren't cheap and it's an incredibly niche product so it needs high margins
We know Mike made a couple million off it but that's years of work and risk, I think it's priced fairly. There's also the CE and 5X for people who don't need every feature

>>714592248
Emulation is literally anti-normie, faggot.
It is a perfect filter against newfags.

>>714591171
Yes?

>>714591553
Get the 5X

>>714592590
more people emulate than play on real hardware, what's it like back there in 2005?

>>714592659
1080p and no HDR

>>714590856 (OP)
What the fuck is this
Don't tell me it's just an hdmi adapter

>>714592783
It's a scaler.

>>714592851
So just an hdmi adapter?
Jesus Christ

>>714593063
No he said it's a scaler.

>>714592773
1440p, and if you're going to be picky, then put up the cash.

>>714593063
No, it's a scaler.

OSSC

>>714593121
>>714592851
Just saw a video and it's even worse than I thought.
It adds some shitty filter over your picture

>>714593738
You can turn that off

>>714593738
It lets you do whatever you want with the picture, filters are optional.

>>714593697
Sucks for PS2, signal switch dropouts are AIDS too.

>>714592773
>1080p and no HDR
And why is that a problem when the original signal is 240p SDR?

>>714590856 (OP)
Consider the humble CRT

>hdr on old games

>>714593997
Sleek, elegant, non-pretentious. I use my scaler for video capture.

>>714593778
>>714593801
I mean you could have the same result on a raspi pi and even un your game on it
What utter snake oil nonsense

>>714592664
A normie would try to buy an mCable, pay for Nintendon't Virtual Coonslow shit, or try to mod his coonslow with Terradrive, any other ODE, or buy FPGA shit, before they ever think of trying emulation.

>>714593939
>>714594069
Because if you emulate the shadow mask you need the increased brightness to fix the gamma curve.

>>714594124
No you can't, because raspberry pi is a computer, this is a scaler.
You can't plug an actual SNES or PS2 into a raspberry pi.

>>714594126
No, normalfags (normie?? lol) just emulates. I don't know why you're having a fit over this. Emulation has been the normalfag solution for the longest time. It's free and works on devices everyone has in their pocket. They even sell emulation devices that are obscenely popular they sell them at malls.

You are extremely out of touch if you think emulation is niche. It's literally the most popular way to play old games. You are not special for this, you are as good as a normalfag.

>>714593997
it's all fine and dandy if you are still living in your old bedroom in your parents house, but some of us have our own living room and want something bigger than a fucking 20" screen.

>>714594147
I use the shadow mask on my OSSC with my NeoPDP display from 2009 and the brightness is fine.

>>714594384
So get a bigger CRT?

Just emulate or plug into an old TV and be done with. People waste too much money trying to find the best accuracy or upscalers. Most people back then had shitty TVs anyways

>>714593997
It was proven months ago that OLED monitors with 8K res actually BTFO the tubes, because color accuracy and pitch is way better, while latency and response times are extremely low (OLED is 0.03 ms ORT), and 8K res allows to output even better scanline rendering than vanilla CRT were doing. CRT will be completely irrelevant once 8K drops in price just about enough for it to become mainstream, which will happen by 2028 at the latest and 2026 by the earliest. 4K sucks for scanline emulation and timings, pitch is not good enough, but 8K is the point where it's actually completely feasible. It's over for CRT.

>>714594506
I don't feel like going to japan and hiring a small construction crew to carry a 440lb CRT and mail it to me just so I can have a screen larger than 32".

>>714594534
Do you have an 8k TV?

>>714594534
CRT hasn't been relevant for 20 years. What a weird, insane, and unhinged post.

>>714594759
So get a 36 inch.

>>714594350
>You are extremely out of touch if you think emulation is niche
Bitch I literally worked as a QA alongside Steve Snake during the years when he was developing K-Gen '98, which directly led to Lazarus and Fusion.

>>714590856 (OP)
>Buy a Raspberry Pi from ebay for around 60 bucks
>Throw retropi on it
>Buy it a cool little NES or megadrive housing
>load ROMS onto it via FTP or SAMBA from your PC
>8bitdo controller

Takes around an hour to set up. Completely worth it. Plays everything from Atari right up to PS2 using AetherSX2 engine.

>>714594792
Currently I have 4K TV, but I'm definitely going to get an 8K one in next few years.
I'm not a retard, however, I prefer monitors connected through DisplayPort way more, HDMI is dogshit. I'd rather connect a huge 42+ " OLED 8K monitor to my PC and use that as a "TV", than a separate TV.

>>714591171
TVs are for movies and shows, monitors are for games

>>714595208
oh FUCK. I wish I could go back to the 90s and tell myself that! Little anon would care so much!

>>714595179
So how can you say 8k is better then CRT if you've never seen it.

>>714594868
That's ridiculously small compared to modern TV sizes.

>>714594994
Yeah and I beta tested his prototype Saturn emulator in 2009.

>>714592346
Because it's a fucing scam?

>>714594994
We get it, you know only the latest in emulation circa 2005. How is this supposed to prove you aren't out of touch? Gonna start talking about the good old days on Zophar's Domain?

>>714590856 (OP)
Please tell me you are only joking.
Please tell me you were never thinking of buying this.

>>714594384
You don't have an office space in your own home? I've got my work computer, gaming setup with an OLED and CRT and a squat rack in mine. Living room has a TV but I only use that when people are over, otherwise, I just use the living room for reading.

>>714592773
And Playstation 2 at 1080p looks good what's the issue. Love the 5x.

>>714595301
Reading comprehension is really not one of your fortes, I see. Read, nigger, READ!

>>714595439
Reddit go to response

>>714595343
36 inch CRTs are in the same size class as 60 inch LCDs. A little bigger, in fact.

>>714595390
Same, my PS2 games all look sharp as hell.

>>714593997
there are some pretty cool ones out there

>>714595375
I literally directly helped with finalization and release of the Echo Night 2's translation by Gemini and Tom, after DHN went down due to attack of fAtlus on their site. I thoroughly tested the translation during it's development, via playing the game on ePSXe first, then Duckstation. I was the one who got Tom and Gemini back together when they lost all contacts with each-other, after DHN's untimely demise.

>>714595390
Can you only connect one console at a time to these things or can you use a switch?

>>714595704
And now you're old and out of touch. Everyone emulates.

>>714595517
>36 inch CRTs are in the same size class as 60 inch LCDs. A little bigger, in fact.

That's the dumbest shit I've heard on /v/. A 60 inch modern TV has a depth of 8 inches and weighs 50 pounds. A 36 inch CRT has a depth of 25 inches and weights 220 pounds. The two are not comparable at all.

>>714595907
How big do you think 4:3 image is going to look on a 60" lcd?

>>714595386
Office spaces are for work, not for recreating your childhood home.

>>714595907
lil bro playin retro games like this thinking its HD lmfao

>>714595978
>How big do you think 4:3 image is going to look on a 60" lcd?

I don't give a fuck, I own a projector.

>>714596002
It's very strange the little rules people create for themselves with no benefit to any one anywhere.

>>714596002
Sounds like you got a bachelor pad or one bedroom place to me.

>>714591553
The Tink4k-CE is $450

About 7 years ago or so, I used to have a ghetto PC build. The GPU was capable of using that CRT Emudriver or whatever the fuck. So I used that with super resolutions because Windows 8.1 didn't support really low ones. It worked mostly ok except for platforms that needed to automatically switch between 240p and 480i, where I had to manually switch that up.
Of course I also had a modded Wii, but some of the emulators were authentic trash and RetroArch kept crashing all the time.

Nowadays I don't bother. I have a 360hz OLED display mounted to a monitor arm that I can place vertically, I can barely notice a difference in terms of motion clarity, it's plenty bright for me, I can use BFI. And I can emulate saturn games comfortably. And this build is no ghetto build anymore, I have a 4070S. And I have an OLED Deck loaded up with games too and sometimes I prefer that.
What I'm saying is I don't give a shit anymore about this nonsense.

>>714595297
You are a 30 year old, act like one

>>714596394
>>714596002
>>714595208
>>714596093

Did your parents raise you talk like such a fucking faggot?

>>714590856 (OP)
ossc pro

>>714596081
nta but my Pi outputs SNES games like this. Didn't bother with any fancy D3D shaders but wanted it to not look like ass on my TV. Way better than my old SNES's native output.

>>714596812
>Lookin' good

>>714596127
It's a small 3 room flat.

>>714596124
If you want to stay a child for the rest of your life, that's on you.

>>714597039
That's right. Unlike us adults that argue about children's toys on a venetian basket weaving imageboard.

>>714596739
>CRTroon tries to call others fags
Go to bed, grandpa

>>714595179
Weird statement. What difference does it even make?

>>714595716
Never tried a a switch. You can plug in multiple consoles to it and switch those inputs, at least.

>>714597189
I don't have to argue since my point is far superior to yours.

>>714590941
If someone is autistic enough to consider $750 on a device that just cleans up a video signal, they're too retarded to see that emulators are the best choice.

>>714596812
That shit is disgusting

>>714597743
Yup that's what adult men do. Make points about how to properly use children's toys.

>>714597743
seething hands definitely did not write this post