VVVVVV arcade

[pubjoe]

I'd been meaning to try this for a while and had a sudden urge to set it up tonight.

Okay, I know it's more of a C64 game than arcade, but the graphics look really nice on a 15khz arcade CRT running at 320x240 ...and I'm hoping the joystick might give me a better edge on Super Gravitron as I've only managed 15 seconds so far on keys.

Oops, I've just thought, I should have got a close up shot to show the nice scanlines...

[pubjoe]

Well the japanese joysticks must have made a difference, as I just got slightly over 20 seconds on the Super Gravitron!

It's hard to get a decent close up picture of the screen (at least it is with my camera) but vvvvvv looks really really nice on the low res CRT.  Viridian seems at home.

[The Brass]

That's extremely cool. I guess we should experience that IRL, so tell us your location so we can see if our orbits pass anywhere near.

[Terry]

That is so cool Thanks for taking the photos too! I turned the one with Vermilion into my desktop wallpaper!

[Rox]

That's beautiful. I wonder if there'll ever be such a thing as picture-perfect CRT emulation for modern monitors or something. If anything could ever actually approximate how something looks on an old fashioned TV... As much as I like crisp, shiny pixel art, few people seem to remember that pixel art didn't start out that way. It was all supposed to be soft and fuzzy back then!

[pubjoe]

Thanks for the comments.  I love crts for sprite based games.

You can get a pretty good scanline effect with mame by using a good effects overlay and a high pre-scale setting (a high res monitor helps for this, but I think it could be a lot better with some sort of colour bloom effect.  ...Best just to use a good old CRT if you can though. 

I turned the one with Vermilion into my desktop wallpaper!

This has made my week.  I've been telling lots of people about this!

[SoulEye]

Awesome!

How do the speakers of that cabinet sound out my music?

[pubjoe]

It's not bad, but not as nice as it is on my Son's old imac with the pod shaped apple speakers.

I have a PC connected to the arcade machine using a "JammASD", which contains a tiny mono audio amp, which is then played through two average speakers.  So unfortunately, it could be a lot better.

But I still love it due to the awesome music.  I guess the thing with chiptune music is you don't necessarily need a great speaker set to enjoy it.  Afterall, it's inspired by old low-fi sound tech in the first place.

[TheoX]

HOLY SHIT!

YOU ARE MY GOD.

well, after Terry