Does this screen resemble a 15Khz?

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dakonishi
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Does this screen resemble a 15Khz?

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Are the scanlines accurate?

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Or should the scanlines be darker?
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Re: Does this screen resemble a 15Khz?

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Looks pixellated to me.

Scanlines should definitely be more evident than what you got there.
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Re: Does this screen resemble a 15Khz?

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How should I configure mame to closely emulate a 15Khz display?
Which effect should I use?
Do I use Scanline Intensity or Feedback Strength?

I am using wolfmame 0.106.

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set to whatever gives you that nostalgic feeling. if you don't have much arcade experience then set to what looks best to you.
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really, that screen looks fine, 99% arcade accurate. anyway, most arcades i went to, had really crappy cabs and controls, so playing at home on an LCD with emulated scanlines beats the 'real thing' hands down :)
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antron wrote:...set to what looks best to you.
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Re: Does this screen resemble a 15Khz?

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antron wrote:set to whatever gives you that nostalgic feeling. if you don't have much arcade experience then set to what looks best to you.
Indeed.

The way I think of it is to just accept that the images look different from one another on a CRT or an LCD.

I LOVE CRTS. However, when I play on an LCD I never use emulated scanlines since I think they never look quite right. Mostly because there is a lot more going on in a CRT image to give that "arcade look" than just the scanlines.

I prefer to use some manner of exact double scaling and letterboxing and call it a day. Probably the sharpest, most accurate image, and closest in spirit of the original image you can get out of a fixed resolution display.

However, I will say that image looks a bit dingy to me. The scanlines are about the right thickness, but the graphics lines need to be a little brighter, and the scanlines a little darker.
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