My first CRT since 2009. Rescued this 5 inch baby.
Posted Feb 14, 2023, 4:58 PM UTC
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Probably not worth trying to fix the geometry?
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Try it, it looks like previous owner made it squish to 16:9
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It's not that squished as the SMB3 map screen shows. But I'm more bothered by that upper right corner. I'll have to figure out how to display them test patterns.
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Do you live in a PAL country? Maybe that's why it's still a bit squished
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Yes. Finland.
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It's probably a failing cap causing vertical collapse.
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Nope SMB3 just has black bars on the top and bottom when on the overworld, maybe a little squished at worst
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Tiny CRTs are the best CRTs!
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sounds like something a PVM user would say
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If only
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can't disagree
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Especially for our spines !
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Color miniatures are rare compared to the millions of B&W portables, I like it! Internally you will usually find adjustment pots on the circuit board that allow adjusting of scaling and other aspects that lack outward controls. If you find the v-height & v-linearity a combo of adjusting both will get the height and vertical distortion situated.
I've seen many small sets exhibit similar deformaties in the corners. Sometimes it is just a weak capacitor in one of the vertical stages on the board, but a lot of times it's more of a combination of factors or just all around cheap production that aren't worth attempting to correct.
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Pull out the zapper baby
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Iirc, the manual that comes with the zapper tells you a range of CRTs that are bigger than 5" xD
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get playin and have fun
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I though it wasnt that small then realised it sits on top of an NES...
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A 5" COLOR crt? Pretty fucking cool.
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I hope one day to score a 5" color CRT. That's really neat!
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Composite or rf?
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Composite.
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That's 5 inches? Suddenly I feel better about myself...