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  1. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    The pictures of SPO and SFII on the same Sanyo monitor show the same level of detail (same camera, same distance from screen, no zoom for either picture), so if you're not seeing individual red, green, and blue phosphor dots in the SPO picture then you're not seeing them in the SFII picture...
  2. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    I didn't have a theory at all, so I couldn't have prompted it to come up with that stuff it said about analog video filtering, difference in bandwidth, etc. I still don't have a theory, other than I know there must be something different about the Nintendo video signal vs. e.g., Capcom's video...
  3. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    The camera is in focus in both pictures, and on a tripod, set to go off on a timer. The distance from the screen is the same, i.e., as close as I can put the tripod to the cabinet before the legs bump into it. The camera is not zoomed in either picture. Both pictures are simply cropped, nothing...
  4. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    There must be something different going on with the SFII boardset's video signal vs. my Punch-Out / Super Punch-Out boardsets' video signal though, because the PO/SPO raster looks a lot smoother (less prominent segmentation, and much smaller segments too) than the SFII raster does: Those...
  5. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    I think that was Phetishboy's guess too, but the Sanyo is on the left, the Happ is on the right. That's being caused by the video signal and how the PVM handles that particular 240p signal. I've never seen such drastic separation between scan lines before though. This is how my 32" RCA CRT...
  6. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    Are you saying the one on the right is the Happ or the Sanyo?
  7. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    How is it possible for it to have fatter scan lines? The video signal from the game hardware generates a certain number of scan lines, and in order for them to all fit on a given size CRT, they have to be a certain thickness. For example, if the video signal is generating 240 scan lines and the...
  8. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    I don't see any difference between my Happ Vision Pros and other monitors. For example, I've had a Happ Vision Pro in my Missile Command for years, and the other night I put its original G07 monitor in there after replacing all of its electrolytic capacitors, and it looked exactly the same in...
  9. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    That's strange. When I connected my SFII boardset to one of the Sanyo 20-Z2AW monitors in my Super Punch-Out cabinet the other day (using the Sanyo's built-in color inverter board to get normal colors), it looked the same as it does on the Happ Vision Pro in my SFII cabinet, aside from it being...
  10. Does ChatGPT know what it's talking about?

    I asked it why Nintendo boardsets produce a smoother looking picture than other boardsets, no visible scan lines and no prominent segmentation from the shadow mask. I told it that I'd always assumed there was something special about the Sanyo monitors, but that I'd recently connected a Street...
  11. Electrohome G07-CBO degaussing and horizontal centering

    This is the original "numbers matching" monitor for my Missile Command upright, and it's been in storage for the past 15 years (I've been using a Happ Vision Pro in my Missile Command for the past 15 years). Recently I decided I wanted to put the original monitor back in my cabinet, so I...
  12. Multicade Hall of Shame

    Things I learned from this thread: 1. The Street Fighter II button layout is also the official multicade button layout. 2. No multicader was ever dissuaded by not having a CRT. In fact, an LCD is an upgrade. 3. No multicader was ever dissuaded by not having a 4:3 monitor. In fact, 16:9 is an...
  13. CRT replacements for the future?

    The world's first commercial plasma TV wasn't even released until 1997, and it cost as much as or more than a lot of new cars and trucks did at the time (about $15,000). In the mid 1990s CRT TVs still had a nearly 100% market share.
  14. Donkey Kong Jr. Refresh

    Did it return? I would suspect the FBT first, because those Sanyo ones are notorious for that. When I got my Punch-Out machine in 2005 both monitors were doing the exact same thing as yours (snap sound + raster twitch). I replaced them both with original ones from parts chassis, and that fixed...
  15. Do you correct non arcade game owners?

    Not in my neck of the woods. If someone had said "N-E-S" or "Ness" or "Nez" to me in the 1980s or 1990s I would have had no idea what they were talking about. I saw some of the Nintendo commercials on TV back then, and maybe they said "N-E-S" in some of them, but if they did, I didn't take note...
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