Perhaps a silly quesgtion, but...

Twinbee · Post by **Twinbee** » Thu May 19, 2005 12:00 am

-with all this talk about RGB screens, and tate and whatnot, I'm actually kinda curious how some shooters play on projectors. Personally, I'm not really a shmup collector, as I don't have the budget, but the thought of playing Gradius V (or newly aquired Gaiden) on my wall seems fairly appealing. Does/has anyone tried this? If it's good, anything I should be aware of? If it's bad, why is that so?

Post by **Icarus** » Thu May 19, 2005 12:23 am

I don't see any problem with playing on a projector, it'd be pretty awesome to see a great shmup like Gradius 5 on a massive wall.

Some friends of mine borrowed the projector from the AV lab at uni a long time ago and hooked up Gradius Gaiden onto a blank wall, and it rocked. Just make sure you play in a dark room and project the screen onto a flat, white surface, for maximum effect.

And hook up the speakers to something large and loud

A big screen deserves big bassy explosions

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu May 19, 2005 12:29 am

Icarus wrote: Some friends of mine borrowed the projector from the AV lab at uni a long time ago and hooked up Gradius Gaiden onto a blank wall, and it rocked. Just make sure you play in a dark room and project the screen onto a flat, white surface, for maximum effect.

Did you tell this story before? I remember someone saying they did this at their college. BAD ASS!!!!

Post by **Icarus** » Thu May 19, 2005 12:36 am

CMoon wrote:Did you tell this story before? I remember someone saying they did this at their college. BAD ASS!!!!

Luckily one of my friends studying Multimedia had access to the projector, and is a pretty big retrogamer in his own right, so it wasn't difficult to persuade him to use the projector to partake in some old-school Gradius fun

I remember a long time ago, Malc told me about one of his shmupmeets where he projected a game onto the side of the house across the street (I think it was either Tempest or Batsugun). Now that would have been something to see...

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Thu May 19, 2005 1:19 am

I remember a thread in the old forum about shmupping with a projector, someone who played Dai Ou Jou on a projector. It might've been Kaneda. I remember how they talked about how they played in letter box mode, but considered tate'ing the projector.

raiden · Post by **raiden** » Thu May 19, 2005 3:43 am

a friend of mine has had different projectors since the early 90s, and we would play on them all the time, once even in tate, until he got a TV as well. First it was just overwhelming, but after some time we began to miss some traditional qualities of the TV picture, like the brightness, the shining colors, the scanlines (he had an X-RGB2 which can fake scanlines, but it´s not the same on a projector) and the ability to take the whole picture in at the same time. Especially lo-res games look and play better on a TV. Nowadays, the projector only gets used for films and party games like Saturn Bomberman or Winning Eleven with 8 people, while most lo-res games are played on the TV.