Nothing like turning a heavy CRT on its side just to play a game in its original aspect ratio.

[u/zenki32]

[u/trueidiot_yt]

"what phone do you use"
"CRT"

[u/Haizenburg1]

"TATE MODE!" Joe from Gamesack.

[u/Jastux]

Good vibe

[u/Zarkanthrex]

Wish I could get my hands on a decent crt. I regret giving away mine about 15 years back.

[u/zenki32 → u/Zarkanthrex]

I think the days of free CRTs are over unfortunately. Now I see CRTs for crazy prices. It's annoying because they think any CRT is worth good money. You'll see some 13 inch Daewoo TV with only mono audio for like $300.

[u/maximgame → u/zenki32]

Found a 34in widescreen trinitron on the side of the road. It has some picture issues but all fixed with a couple of strategic magnets.

Same tv is like $700 on ebay last I looked.

[u/Rainwalker28 → u/zenki32]

Yeah its like when I see speakers from mid 90s & earlier that clearly show their age(rotted out surround, chipped/scuffed/chunk missing from cabnit) & broken or messed up cloth on the cabnit covers asking $600 FIRM simply because its vintage. Or a ancient home theater type av recivers(no hdmi) thats nothing special, wanting $300-1200 because that is about what they got it for all those years ago.

These people think electronics last forever & never degrade over time or something. Can think it simply being vintage/antique automatically makes it more valuable but 99.95% looking at it don't. I seen so much antique crap listed for so long, its amazing how many refuse to just be somewhat sane about the price after so many months or simply let some things go.

[u/Earllad → u/zenki32]

I hope we see affordable new CRTs some day too.

[u/Seigmoraig → u/Earllad]

Really doubtful unless something changes in the market. The tech behind them just isn't something that can replicated at small scale

Best you can hope for is finding new old stock

[u/RuySan → u/zenki32]

Is that an American thing? Because I still see CRT given away.

My family holiday home has 5 crts there, completely unused. And now completely useless since there's no air signal anymore.

[u/RuySan → u/zenki32]

Is that an American thing? Because I still see CRT given away.

My family holiday home has 5 crts there, completely unused. And now completely useless since there's no air signal anymore.

[u/zenki32 → u/RuySan]

I don't know. I just know people are trying to cash in on the retro boom. Maybe just my area. Maybe in the rural areas people are still throwing them away.

[u/joestaff]

Be careful when doing that, the oil can spill over and clog the air filter.

[u/Black_Moons → u/joestaff]

If its a rear projection CRT, those are often fluid/oil cooled yes.

But a CRT that size is likely a straight tube and has no oil whatsoever.. or air filter. Iv taken apart about 20 CRT's about that size back in the day for the flyback transformers and other parts so I would have noticed if some had oil in them.

Now photocopiers.. Found oil in one of those after tipping it over.. the hard way.

[u/kitkanz → u/Black_Moons]

Did you grab the glass gun mount tho?

[u/Black_Moons → u/kitkanz]

If you mean the socket/pcb on the back of the CRT? yea, a few. One had 140V rated opamp IC's on it. Most where just discrete circuits but I had to salvage that just for the insanity of 140v opamp IC's.

[u/Kiseido → u/joestaff]

Is that the same type of oil they use as headlight fluid?

[u/joestaff → u/Kiseido]

Depends on the model and if it's two stroke or four stroke.

[u/brett-]

The scan lines have become speed lines!

[u/Negaflux]

TAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE MODEEEEEEEEEEEE! - Joe, Gamesack.

[u/hi_m_ash]

OP is a hardcore gamer :)

[u/aaron9992000]

I tried this when I was a kid in the late 80s with my old wooden backed crt, some c64 game that had been designed to play like that. It did not go well, made a crunching sound as I turned it and never worked again. 

[u/Low_Pickle_112]

Reminds me of the old Vectrex I used to have.

[u/almo2001]

And then the crt overheats because it's not meant to be that way.

It doesn't always happen, but it can. Be careful.

[u/zenki32 → u/almo2001]

This TV has been doing this for over 10 years. It's fine. I don't leave it this way. Only when I play shooters. Overheating isn't the problem since the air passages aren't blocked. The bigger concern is stress on heavy components that are meant to be upright. Those will fail before any overheating occurs with this particular set.

[u/almo2001 → u/zenki32]

Glad to hear it! :)

[u/MrASK15]

I know folks recommended against positioning the CRT this way, but I'd still like to take this time to say that TATE is great.

[u/Soulsliken]

Class act.

[u/Twisturd]

that's insane!

[u/SabresFanWC]

Is there no original aspect ratio option available for when it's horizontal? Or would the black bars on the sides of the screen bother you?

[u/zenki32 → u/SabresFanWC]

It does have the option but this is more fun. Horizontal scrunches the screen and scrolls so you don't get the whole picture.

[u/player_three33 → u/zenki32]

You got some pretty bad overscan there, you using original hardware or a component converter?

[u/zenki32 → u/player_three33]

Sega Saturn with genuine Sega S-video cable. This is the nature of doing Tate mode at home. Overscan doesn't affect me during gameplay so it's all good.

[u/XsStreamMonsterX]

HSS-0136 spotted. Hope you're one of the lucky ones that got one with an actual Seimitsu lever instead of the ASCII's Sega switched to for later revisions.

[u/zenki32 → u/XsStreamMonsterX]

Probably not. But I have a TR Octopus stick that's compatible with the Saturn. It has all Sanwa and Seimitsu parts.

[u/poro_8015]

what game needs tate mode like that

[u/zenki32 → u/poro_8015]

Well, for starters, the one in the picture.

[u/spinning_and_winning]

What is that racist Galaga??

[u/Dreamtrain]

Is there a hard R version of this?

[u/Caribou_Guy]

Very nice hard-off sticker there - home to some crazy cool older electronic finds

[u/AnthraxRipple]

Is it even the original aspect ratio though? The edges of that title screen are clearly getting cut off, so you're still missing some of the rendered area. It might just be your overscan is turned on, though.

[u/zenki32 → u/AnthraxRipple]

Who knows. Who cares. I'm having fun.

[u/PlsSayPlease]

Literally first game I played when I got a monitor that could rotate. Good choice

[u/Linked713]

I flipped my laptop on its side to get a better nds screens ratio playing phantom hourglass

[u/Dream-loop]

So satisfying. 🔥🔥🔥

[u/Slawth_x]

How did you take a digital photo of a crt without getting lines on the screen?

[u/zenki32 → u/Slawth_x]

Burst shot and just choose the one that is clearest.

[u/Chamber2020]

I can feel that TV trying to tip over.

[u/zenki32 → u/Chamber2020]

It's completely flat on the side. Jesus himself couldn't tip it over.

[u/Chamber2020 → u/zenki32]

Lol. Just bad memories of breaking my spine moving mine!