Yeah, that’s how I feel. I already sold a handful of my most expensive games that I had little to no emotional attachment to, and even that felt like a chore.
Wait until those zoomers learn about shaders on high refresh rate displays. Sure, it’s a bit of “look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power” but you can’t argue with the improving results.
I don’t mind cutscenes as long as they aren’t overly dragged on for too long and boring. Arcade style games tend to be some of my more played games as well as they are easy to just pick up and play. In terms of wokeness, I’m very much against that sort of stuff as well. There’s this one guy on Steam (and there’s also a similar forum here on Kiwi Farms) who created a list of games with DEI nonsense to avoid.
The crt_royale shader has come such an extremely long way that it's 10x more practical than carrying around 20 year old technology that might break at any time that most zoomers do not have the expertise to repair. The only holdout is that you need a 1440p monitor at a bare minimum to make it look good. Even something like crt_easymode_NTSC is really good for what it does.
Super Nintendo has been in "collector's market" territory for a long time. It's not a place for cheap entertainment.
You know I don't sell but I prefer buying in Canada since the shipping ends up a lot easier and there tend to be less outright scams than I see in US listings. Maybe I should see if there's anything on my list from years ago when I gave up buying aggressively, might be a good opportunity if activity from the US is lower.
That's almost inflationary at this point. Almost everything is 2x as much as 10 years ago, and while official inflation numbers don't indicate that I really don't trust them because I have eyes to see.
They even managed to make UMDs go up in price...
I could probably hit a few thousand selling < 10 things just off the top of my head. I would do it if I was desperate but my view has always been that the value of everything I own is $0 since I don't intend to sell any of it.
OLED's look great for old pixel art games. I prefer playing my old systems through rgb, and I never really cared for the color blending and blur of playing games thought composite,, the appeal for me with CRT's is the bright colors that look great with pixel art. I'm sure in 20 or so years when CRT's are mostly dead TV's at that point will be able to make these games look just as good without the need for any old special tech.
If you are a Canadian who is buying then yes, you just won the ebay lottery.
I actually have a CRT and it looks great. Got my SNES, Super Famicom, GameCube, and Wii all hooked up to it.
It looks so much better than any filter or shader does justice to. There's a feel to them that is really hard to match. I've heard good things about beam simulation with a retrotink 4x but it really feels like this to me:
I’m not even sure if my CRT looks good (I also might be picky about what “good” means) but I’ve come to terms with the fact that tinkering itself is part of my hobby so I’m excited to get autistic about signals and decoders and shit
Finished up selling a few weeks ago. Still have a few odds and ends but I'm so tired of packing and shipping shit and dealing with retarded eBay buyers that I'm not really motivated to put anything else up at the moment. Ended up netting a little under $21k after fees and shipping materials. I honestly don't miss any of it and I'm glad that they will bring joy to a new group of people.
They never give the warn fuzzy feeling that cuddling up to a CRT will quite literally give you.
That's the X-Ray radiation rewriting your DNA.
Many years ago I bought a boxed, possibly unsold/unused, Virtual Boy and a whole bunch of boxed games for $20. The shipping to europe cost four times as much. The pro-tip for playing it is lay down flat on the couch and put it over your eyes, don't use that stand it sucks.
Get an old projector and put it on the floor pointing at the ceiling.
That's amateur hour! Set up a harness and projector rig bolted to the ceiling, strap yourself into the harness, facing downward, and project the image onto your bare floor. That's real gaming, and it's far more thrilling when you can hear and feel the bolts fastened to your harness begin winding their way out of the ceiling.
As someone who actually does this (have a rt4k and a high end OLED just for this) you're completely correct. I spent more time fine-tuning my presets for different games + console + CRT feel than actually playing games and never came as close to the CRT as much as I wanted.