I thought the last one (glitch whatever part 2) was the only one I haven't watched at all but I forgot about the horse whatever thing. I guess that makes two now for me, and I have been a fan since the "golden age" of AVGN and watched pretty much everything.
I can confirm that games do look way better on a crt, it's like a night and day difference. Old pixel games look awful on lcd monitors and tvs. It's not just old games that look better on crts either, there's certain aspects about modern games that look better on a crt as well. crt screens are great for displaying computer generated textures and I've noticed that the textures in modern games look way more lifelike than when played on a 4k monitor. You'll look at a brick wall or something in a modern 3d game and on a crt it will look like a real lifelike brick wall but on a modern display it just looks like a flat fake texture trying to look like a brick wall. Obviously there are other issues with playing modern games on a crt like the size of text being too small to read, so it's not completely an improvement and it's better to stick with old games on crts for the most part but I find it really interesting seeing how a crt makes modern 3d graphics look better.
This is basically just a marketing ploy to get middle aged men who want to relive their childhood nostalgia to shell out hundreds of dollars on video games they could emulate for free.
You don't need to buy a 300 dollar CRT and original hardware to enjoy old video games. That's the point I was trying to make. The way the pixels look on the screen is not why people play or enjoy video games we play them because they are fun. Ignore my retarded emulation comparison.
what, you'd expect him to have a DIFFERENT experience emulating a game than he did emulating a game?
To be fair, I think James has listened to his audience, at least kind of. You don't see him plugging Rex Viper much these days, the podcast died pretty fast, and he finally had a joke in his episode about being bald. As a whole, I think 2022-24 were better than 2020 or 2021 although he still puts out some real trash every now and then.I thought the last one (glitch whatever part 2) was the only one I haven't watched at all but I forgot about the horse whatever thing. I guess that makes two now for me, and I have been a fan since the "golden age" of AVGN and watched pretty much everything.
Even Null grudgingly listened to his supporters and restored reactions ("stickers"). Bimmy won't give an inch and won't stop Goatse-ing for Slobwave. Either he is seriously retarded at this point or April is just running the show. Or both.
Digging deeper into bitching about lag in emulation led me to realize most of the complainers are using Xbox gamepads on Windows wirelessly, so they get what they deserve. Xinput just isn't capable of instant response, good old HID-compatible wired pads work way better. Also, Mac and Linux emulators don't have the same issues in most cases, so clearly, as always, using Microsoft products gives a shitty experience.
James has Larry's hairline and NONE of his comedic talent or warm personality.
If the game plays the same whether it's hacks or emulated perfectly exactly who cares?
Linux sucks as much as you allow it to, based on how much you want to suffer to improve it, but it isn't as guaranteed not to work right as Windows and Direct X and usually has lower overhead for polling.
For a small selection of games, input lag beyond what the original hardware had can make things either more difficult, or unplayable. If you don't play those games, it isn't an issue at all.
From speedrun.com’s Super Mario 64’s allowed emulators section:
I can honestly in all the years I've emulated games, since the early 2000's say I've never noticed any kind of input lag that's affected any of them unless the emulator itself was lagging and I've played a lot of games in a lot of genres a ton of which require fairly precisely timed inputs. I'm sure for autistic shit like speed runs timed to the millisecond it's important but I really question average people who complain about this.
