How important is 60fps to you?

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JackHandy said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah, CRTs are awesome, I actually picked one up from my grandmother when she moved houses late last year to play my retro consoles on, and I can't believe how amazing games like Donkey Kong Country still look and feel on these glorious old machines.

Sure, it's fucking massive and bulky by today's standards and takes up a lot of space, but its weird how in some ways display technology has actually gone backwards compared to twenty years ago.

The thing I notice right away when playing on a CRT is how there's almost-zero input lag. I was trying to play SMB3 on my 4K TV via the Switch one day and kept dying in ways that I never use to die when I was younger. Curious, I went downstairs, popped the actual cart into my actual NES, turned it on, grabbed my controller and within seconds, I was literally flying through that game on my CRT. It was crazy how much more accurate my button presses and timing was. It was as if I were some sort of cyborg ninja utilizing the full brunt of the force!

After that experience, I completely gave up trying to play anything retro on newer consoles (I own all three). From now on, if it's PS2 or older, it's on a CRT via an actual disc/cart. There's just no other way.

I had a very similar experience with the Donkey Kong Country games. Playing them on a HDTV I died all the time and wondered if I was just a worse gamer than I was when I was younger, but once I played them on a CRT again suddenly it felt instantaneously responsive like how I remembered it.

Looks a hell of a lot better than on a HDTV too.