What a coincidence. Just yesterday I saw a video about how Mario Galaxy works from a technical perspective, and water was one of the topics.

As it turns out, the water effect was done by manipulating the floor texture with a noise pattern to make it squiggly, and then putting a transparent layer above. It looks pretty good and doesn’t need much processing power.

I just thought that was interesting.

That’s so cool! Will you make a post about it when you’re done?

Awesome to hear that it works on real hardware. It’s so cool to play new mods on decades old consoles.

Valid concern. I made a little visual inspection from the inside of course, but didn’t find anything. Now that I think about it though, I didn’t check below the PCB.

Another person also mentioned that my soldering work isn’t that clean, so I will probably open the thing again and check for bugs and redo my the cable.

Yes you’re right, it really isn’t the cleanest soldering work. I’m still practising a lot.

It is probably fine though, I tried pulling the cable apart where I soldered with quite a bit of force, but it didn’t loosen a bit.

The TV also only consumes 52W according to the back label, so it should be fine.

On the other hand through, this really is a connection that needs to be really solid.

You’re right, I should probably revisit it. I’ll see when I have time for it.

Well, I guess there are some people that really think that the few grams of copper inside the cable is worth something. Most people see CRTs as worthless today anyway, which is pretty sad.

Thank you :) I’ll see how many hours it was used once I get the remote for it. It’s probably not too much, since the tube looks pretty bright.

I see CRTs pretty rarily on the street. It’s probably because they’re getting rarer? But yeah, I know the feeling of seeing one and not being able to take it with you. I mean, I have already seen a few that I just didn’t need, like 100hz sets or just rather low quality TVs. I don’t have that much space so I never picked these up, even though I also didn’t want so see them trashed. With this one, I just couldn’t leave it there. It’s a 21 inch CRT, so I somehow made space for it at home.

And yes, this was also my first time working on a CRT. It would have probably taken a few more years for me to build up enough confidence to open one, but finding one that needed repairs greatly accelerated it if that makes sense. I still don’t really feel comfortable touching the electronics inside because every just tells you about how dangerous they are, but I hope it gets better for me in the future so that I can possibly do some more difficult repairs if needed.

This is really interesting, thanks for your insight. I don’t really know a lot about cars, but maybe I’ll give it another try one day. I will definitely keep this in mind :)

Absolutely. The Wii U modding community is really active, I feel like there’s something new every few months. I love it!

And that’s fine too, I think. This is what gave the Wii the perfect backwards compatibility, allowing many more people to enjoy Gamecube games on original hardware without getting a Gamecube, which are way more expensive today.

And you know, the Wii is like a beast when it comes to sub HD stuff. It’s the most powerful console that ever released that wasn’t designed with HD TVs in mind. That lead to many Wii games just looking really damn good and clean. Seriously, Mario Galaxy on a CRT in RGB looks absolutely stunning.

But maybe they did go to far trying the same thing again with the Wii U.

I know I know, you’re right. This is a rather temporary setup, I plan to arrange the consoles a bit differently so they’re less in the sunlight.

Even now, its just during the evening, and my Gamecube, which is the most susceptible to yellowing, is already kinda yellow unfortunately. Same for the wavebird receiver.

But you’re still right, I should put something over these consoles for now.

Right? It feels like gaming peaked with the 6th console generation. Just a fun time to look back at.

Yeah, having some evening sun shine into a room just gives it a great vibe. I just wish it wasn’t 29°C in here

Anyway, thanks for commenting as well!

That VCR is from my parents, they don’t use it anymore. I don’t really have any tapes for it though.

We had the first 3 Star Wars movies on VHS, which was the reason I set the thing up. Unfortunately, these tapes have somehow disappeared completely, they are nowhere to be found.

So it’s just decoration for now, but I’ll definitley get some other movies one day. Thank you for your comment!

Haha true, but only dust for me, no pets. I guess having carpet doesn’t help either. Let’s just say that it adds to the vibe.

Thank you for your tips. I do remember reading the forums, but never getting the point of it. Maybe I should set my game to English instead of German, the translation for the latter is very weird.

I also had the problem of finding rivals during the night that I just couldn’t beat, because they were way faster than I was. And that was the case even after upgrading every part of my car. Maybe I just made the wrong choice for the first car? Which one did you start with?

Man, I would have never expected so see someone talking about Kaido Racer here. I tried that game about 2 years ago, but never got far. I only ever had the first track to play, since I never beat the right enemies to unlock the other ones. I probably should give it another go, it seems pretty well made even if the translation is a bit funky haha.

What about you? How far are you currently?

Micro Mages, let’s go! This is such a cool game, it’s always great to see people online play it on anything but a PC. I for myself played it on a modded Wii on a CRT. I love how everyone plays this game differently.

Anyway, nice little emulation console you got there too, glad it worked out with the custom firmware as well. Enjoy!

Really interesting to read through! Thanks for sharing :)