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JWeinCom said:
Hmmmmm... I played Mario 64 recently and got 120 stars, so obviously I didn't find the lag unacceptable. My brother was over, and he plays the game a lot on an emulator. He complained about it, but I thought it might be that emulators just run differently. I just went back to compare both and I do feel a little input lag. After changing my TV to game mode the difference was less noticeable.

You mean the TV wasn't already in game mode? O_O



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I 100% completed Super Mario 64 and I don't believe I noticed any input lag.



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LemonSlice said:
JWeinCom said:
Hmmmmm... I played Mario 64 recently and got 120 stars, so obviously I didn't find the lag unacceptable. My brother was over, and he plays the game a lot on an emulator. He complained about it, but I thought it might be that emulators just run differently. I just went back to compare both and I do feel a little input lag. After changing my TV to game mode the difference was less noticeable.

You mean the TV wasn't already in game mode? O_O

Nah.  Just not something I ever thought about honestly.



JWeinCom said:
LemonSlice said:

You mean the TV wasn't already in game mode? O_O

Nah.  Just not something I ever thought about honestly.

I spent around 15 hours calibrating my current TV. That's 15 hours of toying with the settings over a month. It's perfect now, and it was worth it.



No lag for me on Super Mario 64. Felt fine on both TV and gamepad.



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LemonSlice said:
JWeinCom said:

Nah.  Just not something I ever thought about honestly.

I spent around 15 hours calibrating my current TV. That's 15 hours of toying with the settings over a month. It's perfect now, and it was worth it.


I'm really not concerned about those kinds of things.



JWeinCom said:
Hmmmmm... I played Mario 64 recently and got 120 stars, so obviously I didn't find the lag unacceptable. My brother was over, and he plays the game a lot on an emulator. He complained about it, but I thought it might be that emulators just run differently. I just went back to compare both and I do feel a little input lag. After changing my TV to game mode the difference was less noticeable.

Honestly, I couldn't swear 100% that the input lag is there. I feel it, but it might just be a placebo effect. A few parts of the game were harder than I remember, but maybe I'm just not as good as I remember.

At any rate, I find the game perfectly playable


well older TVs hadnt so much reaction time, same goes for PC displays. so its only normal that you feel a little lag if you play on a never tv.



JWeinCom said:
LemonSlice said:

I spent around 15 hours calibrating my current TV. That's 15 hours of toying with the settings over a month. It's perfect now, and it was worth it.


I'm really not concerned about those kinds of things.

You should be. You spend hundreds of hours watching the screen, and the TVs never come with acceptable settings in my experience. I don't like things screwing up my sense of reality and fantasy so getting the picture to look and move as natural and as pleasant as possible is a top priority.



It wasn't "unacceptable", so far the N64 games I've played are fine. If I screwed up on something in-game, it would be because of me, not lag.



LemonSlice said:
JWeinCom said:


I'm really not concerned about those kinds of things.

You should be. You spend hundreds of hours watching the screen, and the TVs never come with acceptable settings in my experience. I don't like things screwing up my sense of reality and fantasy so getting the picture to look and move as natural and as pleasant as possible is a top priority.


What is acceptable varies from person to person, like the level of lag in Mario 64.  Some people will be ok with it, and some won't.  It doesn't really damage my immersion, and the effort of looking into how to fine tune it and actually doing it wouldn't be worth it for me.