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HoloDust on 20 May 2026
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Chrkeller said:
HoloDust said:

Yeah, CRTs are still by far the best option for retro games.

Modern beam simulator shader/high refresh OLED (240+Hz) combos are getting closer, but they are still not there yet - we'll probably need to wait for Micro LED (not to be confused with Micro RGB) to be available to consumers at reasonable price for that, as they can solve brightness, response time and subpixel grid issues that using OLED still can't.

Pixel response is a problem with OLED?  Not my area of expertise, so it is an honest question.  My OLED claims 0.1 ms response time.  

Not problem per se, but if you want to emulate CRT perfectly, then yeah - your OLED is 100 microseconds (they go as low as 20-30), CRTs are around 1-10 microseconds, and MicroLED is in nanoseconds range (which is, honestly, an overkill for pure CRT simulation).