Ferno

Same here man. That was part of my nightly ritual for so long, and I might've even gotten in trouble for it once or twice. Watching on school nights really wasn't the best idea, but younger me just had to catch the Detective Conan dub. 

That period of my life... wasn't great, but it's nice to have at least some things to look back on fondly. 

It's not just you, old consoles look legitimately bad on HDTV's without a component or HDMI cable. Last I heard there was one guy selling his own HDMI cables online but I think they bricked the systems or something.

This is the only reason my Wii is still on my TV stand. It Gamecubes better than my actual Gamecube does.

The Gamecube does have component cables... but they're super rare and will run you about $200 (last time I checked, mind you). Now, if you have a Wii that's backwards compatible, you can get component cables for that for cheap. Either way though, in my opinion even with component my Wii/Gamecube looks far better on my CRT than on my HDTV (to be fair, I have a really good CRT). Using composite on an HDTV just looks like absolute garbage though.

I need a component cable for my PS1 to look good, you all mean?

DAMN IT! We don't use component cables in my country.

That's what happens when you don't use the full resolution of the screen you're on sadly. See it all the time when I play my PS4 on the 1440p monitor. You're stretching the image and making things blurrier as a result. Though yeah, component cables do help quite a bit in this case.

almost wish there was a "shrink the image into a box" option in that case, similar to playing DS games on a 3DS

It has to do with resolution. GC games were designed for smaller TVs with less capacity for detail. Even component cables can only do so much.

Affects a lot of old games, 3D especially since there’s less options than 2D that you can implement to offset the stretchy blur effect. I actually prefer playing N64 games on my WiiU tablet because the screen is small enough that you can get the benefit of higher resolutions without sacrificing the visual quality of the game. But I do think it’s possible to adjust modern TV settings to shrink the amount of screen that the TV is actually displaying stuff on, so you can input the dimensions of a CRT on those settings if it really bothers you (just don’t forget to change the settings back when you switch over to more modern stuff!).

@Polkadi~♪ PS1's can't use Component cables. For that you'll have to use a PS2 or PS3 (the former if you have a CRT, the latter as a last resort because the PS3 auto-upscales to whatever resolution you have the TV at and can't handle dithering worth a damn). Now I don't know if Australian TV's have support for RGB SCART, but if they do go for that. RGB is sightly better than Component anyways.

EDIT: And as for the Gamecube situation... one option is to use a homebrewed Wii U, which can play GC games and upscale them to HD over HDMI at the same time. For more info on that, watch this:

Now with that being said you'd need a way to rip said Gamecube games but it's still an option.

Wired or wireless?  I use the wireless ones (When my Switch is running well 😞)

Wired. I wanted rumble so it can be as close to my old GC controller as possible.

dang its impressive how much great music can improve these scenes. theres not enough hype stuff like You Say Run in One Piece, hopefully some of the new music that'll come when Wano starts is like this

Wait, is the new season already going on?

i dunno, just saw the ep on Toonami where Camie appears 

@Strickerx5 New season starts in October, I believe. Toonami will be caught up with it by then.

Yeah. It's crazy that the dock, which you're really only buying to be an HDMI and charger port, is about as expensive as the already costly controllers. If should be no more than £20

i kinda forget we live in that age of people bringing stuff to you and generally assume it's something i only see online

then i go somewhere and see delivery people and cars with those brands and i'm like "oh they exist here too"

(i still feel that way with lyft and uber as well. mild surprise when i see them out in the wild)

Started using uber recently too. Beats walking home, waiting for siblings to get off work hours later to pick me up, or awkwardly asking coworkers for rides on days when I don't have the car.

I pay for a three monthly bus pass then walk the rest 95% of the time. 

My job is like juuuust close enough to walk to but juuust far enough that its tiring on hot days, (about an hour on foot, 5-10 mins by car,) plus busses don't really come through my corner of town as often as other areas.

I was literally just thinking about re-watching the show lol. Then this news drops???

*Hulu intensifies*

Its become one of those games I constantly restart because I keep putting it down and then get the urge again a few months later.

Unless there’s another fighter pass. 

Hehe

DON'T STOP BELIEVING FERNO

WE'LL DO IT

Too busy getting his face pummeled by the Adventure Time gang

It's to the point that the barrel has been scraped so far now for the most well known characters that Rayman is still inevitable imo, so I'm still hopeful.