It doesnt have a "game mode" or any special settings besides brightness, contrast, sharpness and those basic types.The (official) OG Xbox game pads, and ports do not have noticeable lag, well not in the realm of human perception any ways. Play sheep man - i can do all my pixel-perfect jumps and actions perfectly 100%.īut not on the piece of crap LCD.
Now i go back and put the cables back in my CRT TV "without" turning off the xbox or anything.
I can "feel" that stupid annoying lag that crap LCD tv is doing. i die at the spikes near the end of the hallway nonstop all the time. Now when i got this stupid LCD tv for christmas in 2014 and when i tested it out.i cant so much as even pass the very FIRST hallway on Sheepman stage. I spent over 3 years getting all my records. Every single other level, the 3 "special stages" im 1st place on.
I have 1st place for every single level in the entire game for Megaman 10 leaderboards on the Xbox 360 except commando man. Yea totally agree'd with your guys comments to his question. High end models are those that will try to "correct" the input signal, and create a very noticeable latency. Now this is fine for playing RPGs (although a little annoying in the menus), but for action games you can forget immediately.įinally my guess (I'm not 100% sure) is that, ironically : The cheapest and low-end is your LCD TV, the better it is to play retro games. I heard from a friend (which works involves doing electronics for this kind of stuff) that it's because of de-interlacing algorithm, and it cannot be disabled. Even if I disable all the effects the latency is still here. And man, there is a huge latency on analog inputs. Unfortunately my dad had the great idea to give this TV to someone else and buy a new one, Samsung brand, very high end model, which has a zillion of functions for doing super-awesome signal processing etc. (also latency is the correct word, not lag, which would mean overall slowdown of the game), but it depends on the TV.īefore we had a simple Panasonic TV, and surprisingly enough, it was perfect even for retro games the latency was not noticeable and there was no issues whatsoever, so I wondered why everyone was whining over LCD TVs to be horrible for old games.
The only other thing to note is CRT is not a good picture generation method as far as fidelity goes, however a good dev can learn to use noise and as such they did. To this end many LCDs will have a "game mode"/PC mode/no processing mode that disables this, some even do it automatically for newer devices.
500 ms (half a second) is horrible for a PC or game though. Doing this in real time is hard and TVs are made with cheap components (no decent processors for it all), however if I am watching a DVD/cable then I don't care that the picture is 500ms older than the one the DVD player/cable box put out and this is far cheaper to do. Some LCDs also do an additional step with various types of image processing (be it scaling, deinterlacing, some kind of filter, colour alteration.). Some "gaming" PC monitors will tell me stories of how fast they are in this regard but most of it will be the stuff mentioned in a second. This is the inherent lag with screens and year LCDs can be higher than older CRTs which were dumb analogue devices, I would not read too much into this though. The TV is not going to send a spike back down the signal line and somehow make a game run slower than it would under "normal" conditions.īasic physics means there is some latency between signal going out an it being displayed on the screen. I fear your friend is confusing several concepts. It's near unbearable to play megaman 9 or 10 on.ĬRT's dont have any lag whatsoever, so i still use a CRT TV luckily for my gaming needs, so im not permenately stuck at least. on the Wii or Xbox 360 (anything else too) - because there's such an annoying delay when pressing buttons until seeing the action on TV.
"emerson" no where to be found.Ī absolutely sucks shit for playing my games anyway. It turned out to be a "emerson" that literally NO TV/tech-related forums ever talk about.and there's absolutely nothing in any types of "input lag databases" websites that list hundreds of different model numbers for the top brand names about. My brother got me a stupid LCD TV for christmas a few months ago (2014) - i never wanted one in the first place, he doesnt know anything about specs, gaming nothing.he apparently just picked whatever was cheapest at walmart.