Post any time you get ANYTHING retro 3.

[wakka]

Great gets. Love the PSP and Saturn stuff.

[_SD_]

I’ve given up deciding if these count as retro or not, but I purchased another 50 quid PSN voucher for Mega Man X Collections 1 & 2 and Chaos Code - New Sign of Catastrophe. I used some of the remaining funds to get Gekido: Kintaro’s Revenge.

[speedlolita]

Had a hankering to play this, so I ended up finally grabbing a copy. Sometimes I don't find copies for reasonable prices with the obi but this one came in at just under £8 posted so that was fine with me. Prefer Tekken 3, but I've played that to death.

[Gradius]

I loved Tekken 2. I spent so much time learning King’s crazy throw combo’s.

[Leon Retro]

Prefer Tekken 3, but I've played that to death.

I remember loving Tekken 2 - and saw it as a really nice upgrade over the original game. The third game pushed the PS1 even further, and I also prefer it, but Tekken 2 is well worth playing.

It's nice to look back and remember how big a thing the first three Tekken games were. I really liked the first game when I bought it in '95.

[dvdx2]

Had a hankering to play this, so I ended up finally grabbing a copy. Sometimes I don't find copies for reasonable prices with the obi but this one came in at just under £8 posted so that was fine with me. Prefer Tekken 3, but I've played that to death.

Nice; love T2 (especially the music). Still using the Sony crt 14” set?

[speedlolita]

That I am. I'll probably just give in to an OSSC if this dies and I can't fix it.

[dvdx2]

That I am. I'll probably just give in to an OSSC if this dies and I can't fix it.

Excellent - good crts seem to be getting muncher harder to find now; I think the train has pulled out of the station....

[speedlolita]

Yes I feel the same. I don't think I can be bothered to source one again, especially not with the prices they command now.

[Leon Retro]

That I am. I'll probably just give in to an OSSC if this dies and I can't fix it.

When I finally figured out to get the most out of the OSSC using my particular Sony LCD, the image looks really nice. The colours in particular look very rich. I would definitely recommend the OSSC.

[speedlolita]

When I finally figured out to get the most out of the OSSC using my particular Sony LCD, the image looks really nice. The colours in particular look very rich. I would definitely recommend the OSSC.

Briefly owned a 1.5 unit, which wasn't ideal due to having to handle audio separately. 240p performance was fantastic though, just the 480i felt lacking. But interlaced video is difficult. Still, better than both internal TV scaling and having nothing at all.

[Nico87]

All of these were free apart from Resident Evil 4 and DK: Jungle Beat ($10 each) and the not pictured Star Fox 64 3D thanks to Lukie Games’ points system. Had to buy replacement cases for Luigi’s Mansion and Paper Mario to get rid of the Player’s Choice cover arts though

[Leon Retro]

All of these were free apart from Resident Evil 4 and DK: Jungle Beat ($10 each) and the not pictured Star Fox 64 3D thanks to Lukie Games’ points system. Had to buy replacement cases for Luigi’s Mansion and Paper Mario to get rid of the Player’s Choice cover arts though

All great games. Makes me want to boot up Luigi's Mansion. I might also have a go on the bongos.

[Brad]

That I am. I'll probably just give in to an OSSC if this dies and I can't fix it.

They are a good long term solution. I have an Amiga CRT that I'm using at the moment though and it will be a real shame when that does. The ossc is really really good at what it does but at the end of the day the image is displayed on a modern LCD or plasma or led and that just looks so different to a CRT that it'll never really look right.

[Leon Retro]

and that just looks so different to a CRT that it'll never really look right.

I wouldn't say it looks "so different", just not 100% authentic. If you set up your LCD screen and OSSC properly, you can get a very nice CRT-esque image that I'd say looks beautiful compared to how LCD screens usually display 240p sort of retro games.

Ultimately though, there are certain elements of CRT screens that can't be replicated. CRT is completely different tech to LCD, so something like the OSSC was made to help make pre-HD games look attractive and close to how you'd expect them to look on a good CRT screen. The OSSC and Framemeister are definitely must-haves for retro gamers who don't want to use CRT screens.




I bought one of these[Sony KV-14T1U] a few months back. After working out how to get into the service menu and sort things out, I now have a really nice image when using the SNES, Mega Drive, Neo Geo, PC Engine. I got the geometry and colour saturation just right. Using it brings home why people still love using CRT screens. But I only use it now and then for a nostalgia fix.