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There's no business like retro gaming business. You can get away with stuff which would be unthinkable in most other markets.

Lol, it'd probably make the house collapse or something. I also can't really lug anything bigger than 21" myself, but negotiating with sellers often does wonders. Last big 29" Trinitron I got, the guys who sold it (plus another small one) to me for ~40USD were so happy that they carried it up to the 2nd floor themselves. I also once just hired a moving van with two young big geezers to do the legwork. The TV in question was nearly free - and awesome - so it was a good deal anyway.

I thought as much. Somebody was asking earlier why the negativity, this perhaps helps to explain it a bit. I also wouldn't be surprised if the OP was yet another incarnation of the old TigerSuperman/LeeroyST/Bubsy/etc troll - the posting pattern pretty much fits the bill.

Do tell! I mean, do link plz!

This sounds like there might've been something wrong with the cable itself, if the difference was really that big. I'm a bit of a CRT fanatic, and have just finished taking photos from N64 for this collection. I used a cheapo S-Video cable from Aliexpress for the connection. The quality is also "close to RGB" with no interference, and I also have a few other micros/consoles which use basic cables for S-video with great results. I had one for 3DO which had a lot of noise but it was a ridicululously cheap job (like >4 bucks) and also very long - 5 meters. Bought a slightly better one which is fine. It's very easy to suggest yourself when talking/thinking about these slight differences, hence my question about side-to-side comparison. It happens to me all the time, since I constantly switch between many different displays and connection types. And Monster cables are well known to be overpriced, to the point were they literally became memes and have dedicated Wikipedia section on the subject. That doesn't mean that they are bad of course, I'm sure the IQ quality is also great on them, but it just can't be better than on another well-made cable because they can't improve the original signal. So imo it's rather pointless overpaying for them. Build quality in a cable only matters to some extent - it's not a moving part, and for 95% of time it will just hang/lie there undisturbed. In the end of the day, it's anybody's choice and indeed 40$ is not breaking the bank. Still, I prefer to do it my way and spend the difference on something else. And if the OP already has a cable, then trying it out is probably the best idea. If you don't see any interference using this cable then a Monster one won't really improve anything past that.

You should try posting on ebay or classifieds. These monitors command wild prices these days (200-500USD) and are much sought after, so if you put a lower one on somebody might travel far to get it.

Have you actually compared the image they produce side by side?

A reasonably well made generic cable should offer exactly the same quality as the Sony or Monster branded one. I'd avoid some absolutely basic ones and go for a generic-branded, since they're usually only marginally more expensive. I'm not sure about HD Retrovision ones, whether they actually bring anything to the table in this case. It might depend on whether you connect to a CRT or a modern panel too.

The beige box might've been bland to look at, but it certainly packed a punch and most importantly was cheap. The latter is a function of the former too. Japanese PC computers from that era were great, but also rather expensive, and so would have been the case with MSX (like what happened later on with MSX 2 and Turbo models). If not, then it would be just another bland beige box, only made in Asia. As for the modern times, they can indeed be very addictive to collect, what with the variety of models and funky shapes. I have 2 myself. I even actually think that I somehow prefer my humble PAL Philips VG 8020 model over the more capable Panasonic FS-A1, there is somthing alluring about its simplicity and the really charming, simple early games. The later multi disk ones can be a bit of a pain to run from the flashcarts.

Call me old fashioned, but I still can't fathom why would I watch someone playing games when I can just do it myself.

I wouldn't bother with RGB modding if it already has component. The difference is minuscule, and there's always the risk of upsetting something inside and ending up with a worse result. The same goes for tweaking for a "perfect" image, which is a kind of oxymoron when it comes to CRTs. I'm usually happy with having 90-95% okay IQ, because chasing that remaining few percent can be a rabbit hole - you get one thing right and two others will go out of whack. And if you have a lot of systems, then settling for some "good enough" median is a must, otherwise that hole can get really deep

I know these Amigas are highly sought after but they actually don't do much for me. I'm firmly stuck in the A500-A1200 era, anything past that leaves me cold, at best lukewarm. That's not to say I wouldn't grab one, of course, if there was some bargain miracle to be found

I don't see any imminent red flags myself. There's plenty of legitimate auctions where people sell expensive stuff out of the blue, have done it myself.

From 3 billion punters to a hush-hush family jewels sell off. Quite a trajectory, eh.

Recommended reading on the subject: https://www.raz-plus.com/books/leveled-books/book/?id=1441&langId=1

In a way, this is amazing, it's like large chunk of modern attitudes and approach to life encapsulated into a couple of paragraphs. The fact it's about beating a bloody videogame and not cancer or some such, makes this example even more vivid. As for the subject itself, of course it matters if you use savestates, rewinds, or any other way of playing not originally intended to finish the game. In OP's defense at least they did mention that, whereas I bet a huge number of people on the net who blithely claim they have "beaten" X or Y don't. They think that modern emulator conveniences are a natural way of playing. Similarly to other posters ITT, I'm not saying it to belittle this way of playing, but it really is necessary to make this distinction as these ways are hugely different experiences (the aforementioned "cheat to train" way is a bit of a special case here). I've spent a big chunk of my early gaming life as PC gamer, where Quicksaving is a given and I took it as a norm. Some more involved PCmasterracers would even use the lack of it it as a stick to beat consoles with. It's only later when I started using consoles and thought more about it, that I understood how corrupting this convenience can be. Later on getting the roguelike bug, and also getting into 1CC STGs, has changed my outlook completely. When I was a kid, who could only stare at the arcades and only occasionaly had a quarter to spare, an Ultimate Cheat was kind of a pipedream, which you would jokingly talk about with your mates. If only!...we could press a button and see what all lies ahead in Vastar or Gryzor. Well, this magic button is here now, but I've never actually used it. I've been playing Metal Slug, R-Type and countless others zillions of times in the recent years, but am happy dying at my customary 2nd-3rd level boss. But, I am also not judging on people who choose to see it through using some modern crutches. But a) please do mention it and b) don't throw a hissy fit when somebody states the other way might be better. It's only an opinion, sure, but with strong arguments behind it.

Oh golly. Thank god then it's on Amiga too

What does it even mean, "disrespectful"? I'm not gonna watch these vids, can somebody recap? As for EVGA, I couldn't care less. There are plenty of other solid brands out there and they're all pretty much indistnguinshable. As for Nvidia, I don't like their market position and bullying any more than Intel's or MS's but, what can you do. If you're into high-level modern gaming (I mean the pro-nerd level) then their stuff is usually the one to get.

That "marketing blunder" somehow didn't stop it becoming a bestseller, probably because real enthusiasts did not really care about something so trivial. I'm pretty sure if I was in the States back then and had some spending power (instead being a 7 y.o.behind the Iron Curtain) I'd be getting exactly the TRS. It was "people's computer", just like ZX Spectrum. Sure, Apple II might'd been a fancier proposition but it was also vastly more expensive. The lack of colour really wasn't as big a deal at the time as it might seem now, seein as me and many others spent had B&W TVs and monitors as the only option anyway, and yet were only top happy to be able to have a compute at all. And there were heaps of good games on the TRS, especially in my favourite RPG/strategy/adventure genres, but also arcade ones. TRS eventually faded away because the Coco models were rather unimpressive and couldn't compete with the C64 in the US or other options, like ZX, MSX, CPC and Atari, elsewhere. And the PC clones slowly chipped away at the business side of sales.

The links Trebor mentions are all good, but these days most of the dev action is on Discord.

Apart from the actual consumer.

I wish. There's this: https://www.bu22.com/wiki/ ...but it's not really that great for somebody with 0 GB experience (or even with some, like me - too complicated) What I usually do is -run the GamebaseSetup v1.3. Make sure you install it to the root of a hdd, preferably 😄, umm, I mean C : Must run it as Admin on Win7 and up. -download/unpack a Gamebase (like, a pack with actual games and extras and stuff, eg GamebaseST) somewhere. In theory into the location where the exe install is from the setup (C:\gamebase) but it's okay to keep it elsewhere, since messing with C : is not good idea -then fire up gamebase.exe (as an admin) from the directory where the actual Gamebase (with games) is (eg I just set it up on my new laptop as D:\gamebase\Atari ST\. So the gamebase.exe is in D:\gamebase\) -If you use the shortcut the setup made on your desktop it won't detect anything, because it points to C:\gamebase. You can change it to your proper one. -when you get to see the actual Gamebase pack screen for your machine, you should set up paths (Tools>"xxx" Paths) to games and stuff. They are in D:\gamebase\Atari ST\Games and so on in my case. -one gotcha is that the specific gamebase directory (the one with games) name has to be exactly the same as the .mdb file inside. For GamebaseST there is Atari ST.mdb file in GamebaseST so the directory has to be also "Atari ST" hence D:\gamebase\Atari ST\ Now if all went well you should be able to see the scr$, extras, and play games. It's important to remember about Run As Administrator otherwise eg emus won't work. Somebody might perhaps offer a simpler and less convoluted explanation, but this one does work for me (just set it up this way on my laptop away from main PC).

That thing about the slowdown on SNES is one of the biggest modern exaggerations in regard to retro gaming. It's absolutely normal for games from this era to have slowdowns, even on powerful arcade boards. And nobody cared about little slowdown back then (which only happens in occasionally, btw) because you'd be over the moon to have a fantastic arcade conversion playable at home.

This is really relative. I can usually get to level 2-3 bosses in R-Type quite easily, whereas in PoP I seldom even get to the first fight.