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Is this pronounced Hydro City or Hydrocity like velocity?
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Sub-struggle: CRT vs LCD? Those waterfalls used to look really different, and took advantage of the color bleed of old CRT monitors to mimic transparency
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I love CRT displays, but I think an LCD is still fine, and it's definitely the more reasonable option. CRTs are inefficient space-wise, use far more power than an LCD, and are slowly becoming a collector's item. Plus, if you are using a CRT TV, you need to either own the actual consoles plus either the games themselves or a flash cart, or go through a lot of effort and potentially need special equipment to output a 15kHz analog signal from a computer/modern emulation device. I think a good shader to mimic scanlines and an analog signal like in your screenshot is the ideal compromise, but ultimately it's fine to just leave it to personal preference.
That being said, if you do have the ability to play these old games on a CRT, for sure go for it! No shaders can mimic the look of a CRT in motion, and games like Sonic where the screen scrolls very quickly especially benefit from it a lot imo.
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There are some pretty good CRT shaders out there. The ones used in Sonic Mania get pretty close!
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I won't struggle over this but I am deeply fond of the CRT bleed being leveraged to add a nice softness to some pixel art backgrounds.
But on the other hand I like crispy character sprites.
Ah fuck I'm gonna self criiiit.
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Many older games were designed with CRTs in mind, and the colors and shapes don't look so great on modern monitors without some shaders applied.
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As a wee lad in the 90's I called it Hydro City, so it just stuck with me my whole life. It's probably Hydrocity like velocity tho like you said.
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I've been calling it Hydro City all this time too. Considering we almost ended up with a level called Genocide City in Sonic 2, it's probably just an English(-sounding) word that's meant to be cool.
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Considering we almost ended up with a level called Genocide City in Sonic 2
I remember reading some shitty creepypastas about this lol
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Yeah I'm team Hydro City but I feel like Hydrocity makes sense cuz, y'know. Gotta go fast.
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Megamind moment
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#rare
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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megamind should be the only persom to rhyme it with velocity
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It’s both and neither
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I think the background evokes an underground city, so my vote is Hydro City
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Level music started bopping the second I opened this image
WHY IS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG'S MUSIC SO DAMN FUNKY?!
fr sonic 3 & knuckles is one of my all time favorite albums
There's a section of my brain that's just a constant loop of Chemical Plant Zone playing.
Crazy how much of a bop it is