The colors look more vivid and blacker on the arcade cabinets because of the damn RGB monitors they used in there with the PCB boards hooked directly up to them via RGB component cables and then the game is ran at the native resolution of the monitor which is 512x384 and the game was designed for that and then overscanned making it look bigger than it really is. This can't be truly 100% matched even with the arcade filter on the MKAK
because you are still playing it on a different screen than the original tubes. When you play the game on a TV usually it'll look different than the arcade in some way because the entire circuitry\tube\etc. are different compared to the RGB monitors used in the arcade machines. It's a little unfair to compare the two directly it's kind of like apples and oranges. Seriously I can't stress enough how big a difference those RGB monitors made for MK and you can see this for yourself especially if you have a cabinet in your house. There's no comparison.
Simply running the game on a different screen than the original cabinet will change it one way or another... period. Even the fact that the game ran at its native resolution on the original monitors made a big difference which can't be discounted. Some arcades made custom arcade cabinets with big screen TVs and they ruined the image quality of all games but people didn't care because of the big screen.
Also the example arcade picture is how it looks emulated with no filtering whatsoever and it did not look that way at the arcade because like I said elsewhere all CRT monitors do some level of color bleeding so you don't see it pixel for pixel pixelated sharp like that and it's not meant to look that way. There was at least some blurring going on with the arcade version inherent to the CRT display which combined with the scanlines which where better than what I've seen with the screenshots from the MKAK and the just plain better colors of the RGB monitor gave the illusion of detail that no home version can match. But then again, many arcade machines had custom monitors whose look can't be replicated with anything else.
Speaking of scanlines at least compared to these screenshots I have seen better implemented scanlines in emulators like sdlmame. The scanlines in MKAK look kind of like older implementations that are uneven. But you also have to realize that stuff like scanlines is best rendered at your screens native resolution during post processing and screenshotting it and showing a resampled screenshot messes that up seeing it on a different screen. Then again some implementations of scanlines are better than others.
Thanks, this is kind of what I was trying to say, but it seems you know a tad more about the techy stuff on the machines than I do. None the less, thanks for making great points to further prove to people that nothing will ever be 'arcade perfect'.
Ok then, here's a test for you: Pull up your select screen on your MK2 cabinet and compare it to the select screen on MKAK on any monitor you wish with any settings and tell me there isn't a difference. Even better yet, be honest with your answer.
??? I own the actual arcade machine, it isn't MAME, it's the actual PCB. There is no select screen. There's simply a test menu where you can set how many coins to insert, who picked certain characters, etc.
I don't understand your 'test', if you think I have the MAME version of the game I don't, it's the actual board itself, untouched, version 2.1.
The original arcade release of MK 2.
I've no idea what you are getting at.
And while I'm at it, seeing that you have friends that work at NRS, you should definitely give them a heads-up about the situation. At the very least they should be aware of what is going on, if they are as passionate about the franchise and they seem with MK9, they should be just as concerned about this game as we are.
Lets hope for the best with the patches, for now we should really get started with a list of the problems so we can mail the details to Other Ocean (and as you said so well, politeness is the key word here, so keep that in mind at all times).
Well, the only person who has any sort of influence from NRS is Ed Boon himself, and I must say, I've not had the chance to meet him. Your best bet is to hit him on twitter politely, and I do mean POLITELY. He's been through hell and back on there.
Instead of showing up in every thread that criticises this horrible kollection with your Ed Boon #1 fan costume, maybe you could be productive yourself and inform your "friends at NRS" that people are pissed and have legitimate concerns and point them to this thread or the other one. Then let us know that they at least care about our concerns (if they do), or if theyre going to at least put out some fixes (if they are). The bottom line is that we paid out money for this and have every right to be pissed over all of these glitches. But you need to stop acting like our criticisms arent valid, or that were overblowing all of this stuff. Maybe these mediocre ports are ok to you, but seeing as so many of us have the exact same criticisms here, someone needs to pay attention and acknowledge it.
What?? Do you really think a few guys in the lower levels of NRS can do ANYTHING about this game? Why haven't you been reading my posts? Surely you know that only Other Ocean can do anything about this port. Telling NRS that you're mad at THEM for something they did not have a say in is absurd. And if they saw your posts right now, they'd probably think you were being irrational and, worse, they'd feel very unappreciated. Posts like yours above are an EXACT reason our community falls so short. These people are not machines that churn out your every wish. They are people too... who work long hours, who do their best. Just like you do at your jobs. Or maybe you're forgetting all those times your boss has breathed down your neck, for having one little thing wrong? Don't like how it feels huh, imagine how these guys feel after they stay up late night hours, lose their girlfriends, miss time with their kids because they're staying over late, etc.
Oh, nevermind. Silly me, I forgot. You all come before anyone else.
Seriously.. this is absurd.
Be pro-active, and constructive. Don't be cry babies.
I'm not 'defending' anyone, all I am doing is being a voice of reason.
I'm just sad this community has gone so far down hill.
People need to be more considerate, but hell, that's why we're in the situations we're in today as a nation, and as a planet.
Because people only care about themselves. Nobody says thank you anymore nor do they try to be constructive. Everyone's destructive and selfish.
/Rant.
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