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Message: [QUOTE="Egg (McMuffin) Man, post: 62056, member: 212119"] A lot of the filters look nothing like what games actually looked like on a CRT. Yes CRT's had scanlines but they weren't especially thick or anything, and oftentimes you couldn't see them without paying very close attention because they were so thin. My personal recommendation is to try playing on a real CRT (A consumer model, not a pvm) and then find whatever resembles that the closest. The scanlines are just a visiting, they have no impact on the game. However, CRT's naturally blur the image slightly, and this was important for many visual effects in old games. Unfortunately most of the CRT filters in emulators don't blur the image at all, so these effects do not work - great examples of this are the waterfalls in Sonic or the trees in the background of Wood Man's stage in Mega Man 2. The other benefit of CRT's was the high refresh rate and you could use light guns, but neither of those things can be recreate with a filter. Recently there is a new type of filter that emulates how the images were produced with the electron beam on CRT displays, but using such a filter requires that you use a display with a very high refresh rate. [/QUOTE]

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