I mean maybe you’d need an adapter if for some reason it doesn’t have the RYW plugs, but these things will generally work on whatever TV you plug them into. TV manufacturers obviously didn’t want to have to tell consumers that their products would stop working moving to LCD.
But a common factor is the console doesn’t know the difference so the screen size will usually be stretched. But thats about it.
theres a bit more to it- these older systems look nowhere near as good on an LCD display than they do on CRTs. The graphics were optimized for the RGB electron gun outputs, so those pixels look blurred, and illusions of gradients and shading work where on an LCD it looks way granier.
This. I recently hooked my steam deck up to a CRT (I’ve been playing a lot of games that were made for a 4:3 ratio). All it takes is an active adapter (in my case, active hdmi-to-vga) and setting the deck to output to a 4:3 aspect ratio.
That said, if that was a smart TV then OP would probably have a lot more issues. My parents have a (Samsung) smart TV and I’ve had nothing but headaches trying to get my deck to work with that, and they’re both modern devices. Some days it takes one try, some days it takes five tries, some days I just give up.
How is it looking on LCD? A lot of older games were designed for CRT.
I mean maybe you’d need an adapter if for some reason it doesn’t have the RYW plugs, but these things will generally work on whatever TV you plug them into. TV manufacturers obviously didn’t want to have to tell consumers that their products would stop working moving to LCD.
But a common factor is the console doesn’t know the difference so the screen size will usually be stretched. But thats about it.
theres a bit more to it- these older systems look nowhere near as good on an LCD display than they do on CRTs. The graphics were optimized for the RGB electron gun outputs, so those pixels look blurred, and illusions of gradients and shading work where on an LCD it looks way granier.
This. I recently hooked my steam deck up to a CRT (I’ve been playing a lot of games that were made for a 4:3 ratio). All it takes is an active adapter (in my case, active hdmi-to-vga) and setting the deck to output to a 4:3 aspect ratio.
That said, if that was a smart TV then OP would probably have a lot more issues. My parents have a (Samsung) smart TV and I’ve had nothing but headaches trying to get my deck to work with that, and they’re both modern devices. Some days it takes one try, some days it takes five tries, some days I just give up.