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Fatty Glutton - Aug 11, 2004

		Fatty Glutton		Aug 11, 2004
			firstly hi, this is my first post here... Anyhow, I already do have a 'real' saturn, but the games look so much better on a vga monitor versus a tv. and I have this luvly ss pad adapter for pc from jandamans This 'cassini' emu does not seem to be going anywhere, and as it seems some emu devs post on these boards I'm just curious as to whether you have any general idea on when saturn will be emulated near perfectly? Or should I bite the bullet and spend 200 bucks + cables on an XRGB...

		dj898		Aug 11, 2004
			actually I prefer TV to monitor. At least I can lie down on the bed while playing with the wireless pad. cheers

Runik

Aug 11, 2004

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by Fatty Glutton@Aug 11, 2004 @ 06:27 AM



firstly hi, this is my first post here...



Anyhow, I already do have a 'real' saturn, but the games look so much better on a vga monitor versus a tv. and I have this luvly ss pad adapter for pc from jandamans  



This 'cassini' emu does not seem to be going anywhere, and as it seems some emu devs post on these boards I'm just curious as to whether you have any general idea on when saturn will be emulated near perfectly? Or should I bite the bullet and spend 200 bucks + cables on an XRGB...

That's exactly the question to not ask, as the answer will always be : "we don't know" ...

For mine you'll have to wait a few years to have something close to perfection (if it ever happens ...)

		lordofduct		Aug 11, 2004
			hehehehehe, don't expect shit dude... go out and write one yourself if you wanna know when itll be done. And i agree with dj898 on the TV vs. monitor. Shit when you put a low res picture on a high res monitor it looks like shit.

		dj898		Aug 11, 2004
			yep! GIGO cheers

		mal		Aug 11, 2004
			Yes, but you're forgeting about the ability of an emulator to render games at higher resolution than the real hardware, as Satourne (I believe) is able to do. If that's your cup of tea, of course.

		lordofduct		Aug 11, 2004
			That wouldn't matter when all the bitmaps and sprites are drawn and put in the game at a lower res... You can up the res, but it won't up the quality.

Fatty Glutton

Aug 11, 2004

	
	
		
		
			 hehehehehe, don't expect shit dude... go out and write one yourself if you wanna know when itll be done.



And i agree with dj898 on the TV vs. monitor. Shit when you put a low res picture on a high res monitor it looks like shit.

eh sorry i wasn't trying to be rude, just wanted your guyses advice...

also Radiant Silvergun looks way the fuck better on my monitor than on my tv with svid (too bad the music is fucked).

anyways thanks everyone guess i'll just put an xrgb on my christmas list

		SegaTecToy		Aug 13, 2004
			PDS looks much better on GiriGiri IMHO. Unfortunately the game is almost unplayable.

M3d10n

Aug 15, 2004

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by SegaTecToy@Aug 13, 2004 @ 05:10 PM



 PDS looks much better on GiriGiri IMHO. Unfortunately the game is almost unplayable.

Unplayable? You might be unfortunate on the hardware-side then, because it was by far the most playable game in my old Duron 950MHz, and it's perfect on my Duron 1.6Ghz.

Sega should've made it avaliable through the Cyberdisc, it would surely attract lotsa attention.

		Omni		Aug 19, 2004
			Yes, I would definately say I prefer the big TV screen to a cramped PC monitor. Heck, I'm thinking of getting a S-Video box to link my PC to TV so I can play more PC games on the TV...since most of them are console or console-ish. Though I imagine a lot of PC games look good on a big TV screen, even if you lose a bit of resolution quality.

it290

Aug 19, 2004

	
	
		
		
			That wouldn't matter when all the bitmaps and sprites are drawn and put in the game at a lower res... You can up the res, but it won't up the quality.

Ah, but when you're talking 3d, you can enable antialiasing, texture filtering, and so forth.. even putting super eagle type effects on the textures themselves, which can be rather nice. Also, although I used to hate those types of effects on 2d games, I've come to enjoy them a little bit more. I think scale2x + scanlines / dots looks especially nice, for example.

edit - I should also say that one thing I _hate_ is when low res 2d games are displayed in interlaced mode on a regular TV - ie Mega Man Anniversary Collection, SF3:3rd strike's default mode on DC, et cetera.