Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation featured very distin…

Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation featured very distinct visuals that make these different systems easy to distinguish. Yet whereas the N64 mostly suffered from a small texture buffer, the PS’s weak graphics hardware necessitated compromises that led to the highly defining jittery and wobbly PlayStation graphics. …

  • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    656·
    20 days ago

    They were definitely 3d processors.

    Just tell us all you suck at math.

    CRT didn’t mask anything. They had significantly different gamma. That’s the biggest difference, maybe. They also had amazing GtG response times(grey to grey). Modern displays just can’t do that. Plasma TVs were the best. They accomplished temporal dithering. The display itself wasn’t high color. But it switched at extremely high frequency and accomplished the highest color fidelity known to man.

    • dukemirage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      20 days ago

      Pixels on a CRT aren‘t quadratic. Light bleeds between them, and persisted between frames. That was definitely some kind of post processing you could call masking and the games of that era leaned heavily into it. Hardware and games were designed to be displayed on a CRT.

      • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        218·
        19 days ago

        You’re quadratic.

        Crts don’t have pixels. They have scan lines. They have signals. They’re analog. Not digital.

        I used to play around with this stuff. some decades ago.

        They had much different gamma ramps. Things that look dull on lcds pop on crts.

    • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
      24·
      20 days ago

      This reads like someone who was born after the CRT era trying to describe them. No, you’re just wrong about that. CRT monitors had a huge effect on the output of the visuals in contrast with modern screens.

    • actionjbone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      19 days ago

      I’m not sure how to reply to this.

      Mainly because my own math skill is unrelated to processor technology of the late 1990s.