Tried a bunch and could only really settle on crt-guest-advanced and crt-royale. crt-royale looks better in screenshots but sucks when playing games with a monitor (which is what I do for about 90% of these games). crt-guest-advanced is pretty good, though not as vibrant as crt-royale. Left is crt-guest-advanced and right is crt-royale. KF kind of fucks up the crt-royale image, so you might have to zoom in once.
People think I'm mad when I point out that old CRT computer monitors looked great at any supported resolution. 1024x768, 800x600, and so on, it always looked sharp. Not like now when playing below native res makes the image a smeary mess. TVs were much the same. Playing a SNES on a TV looked good, but playing them on a modern TV looks messy and basically unplayable.
It depended on the CRT. A good monitor could be pretty sharp, but TVs really did look like shit.
there's also the funky realm of NTSC monitors rather than filthy casual TVs
One difference I notice between TV's back then and now are blacks. CRT TV's really made shit dark to where you sometimes couldn't see shit if you were playing a game in the day time (especially if your character was in a dark area like a cave or something) so you really had to fiddle with the tv settings to make the screen brighter but even then it just make the picture white and the colors pop up more than light up the room. HDTV's don't really have that issue as even the blackest of black has a tint of light.
That's true in the case of LCD screens because there's a backlight. LED displays are just off when displaying blacks, so there's no light to bleed through.
There are two major continuations of Citra: Lime3DS and PabloMK7’s fork (there’s also Lemonade but it was recently discontinued due to drama). These are forks, meaning they use the last public release of Citra as a base and are, for all intents and purposes, objectively better. I’ve heard good things about both, but the community is split on which is better.
A lot of people don't know about that one but it is a fun sim-racer. It always felt a bit half-finished, they nailed down the driving and such but the menus and campaign felt a bit rushed together so if nothing happening when you reach Rank 1 wouldn't surprise me.
Yeah. It was hated at the time, overshadowed by Gran Turismo, which makes sense. It's clearly a knock off, and GT was a much better game as a package. You can tell they were proud of their driving model, as by default the screen is covered in junk that, to me, feels like debug tools, such as displaying when your tyres lose grip, or where the weight of the car was.
It's entirely possibly that the game ends at Rank 0, but the amount of grinding it took to reach rank 1 was ridiculous enough. But doing dozens more 20 minute races to find out? No thanks. There is supposedly a credits roll, but I'm not sure what triggers it as the YouTube video showing it is 2 laps or Nurburg Ring at Rank 5. I'm guessing it's win all the calendar events, but again, no thanks.
It was also released on the same day as the first Forza which certainly didn't help.
The PS3 is like the PS2 where it blossomed fast for piracy and literally nothing else, it's been ages now and no one's even bothered to fully crack the later slims and super slims or go for proper 3D GPU support in homebrew due to the same "muh fat" complacency as the PS2
Because most homebrew developers are lazy and they don't go beyond making an initial port of an emulator/game source-port just to prove that it's possible, and then never update it to make it actually usable.
Yeah, either Batocera or LAKKA will give you some better results than modding most consoles that aren't the Wii/Wii U, especially if you get those old office pcs that are on clearance;
