Is there a way to make FF VII look good on a big screen TV?

I want to buy the game to play with a PS2 slim, but i heard it looks pretty bad on a big screen TV. Is there a way to make it look better?

Is there a way to make FF VII look good on a big screen TV?

hydralisk86

Yes, there is. Convince Square-Enix to remake the game, so maybe it will look decent this time around.

what video cables do you use?

it looks horrible through my ps3 with hdmi cable on my 42 inch samsung. but I think it's also the game just having aged badly like most 32bit games graphically

It looks great on my 32" Sony CRT :) Old games and HD TVs just don't mix. I tried playing Spyro 2 on my Grand Parents' 42" Panasonic HD TV through a standard AV cable and it looked awful.Nismology

just wondering overall. I heard indeed vga looks best on crt like with dreamcast but also rgb looks best on it for other consoles. what are best crt tv's to look at and when they don't have a vga output in the back is there a way to still get vga on it?

I want to buy the game to play with a PS2 slim, but i heard it looks pretty bad on a big screen TV. Is there a way to make it look better?

hydralisk86

Yes, there is, but this way cannot be discussed here.

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I want to buy the game to play with a PS2 slim, but i heard it looks pretty bad on a big screen TV. Is there a way to make it look better?

Heirren

Yes, there is, but this way cannot be discussed here.

I want to buy the game to play with a PS2 slim, but i heard it looks pretty bad on a big screen TV. Is there a way to make it look better?

hydralisk86

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[QUOTE="hydralisk86"]

I want to buy the game to play with a PS2 slim, but i heard it looks pretty bad on a big screen TV. Is there a way to make it look better?

Darkman2007

Yes, there is, but this way cannot be discussed here.

Personally I kind of like the pixelated look. I understand it is a hardware limitation, but I don't mind Twisted Metal 2 through the ps3 played on a plasma, in the slightest. I think my tv does a good job scaling, perhaps. Some games are worse than others though. Metal Gear is one. I don't find a problem with my "hint" if you own the game. My psx was in a flood along with all my N64 games awhile back. There's exceptions imo.

its not a matter of pixelated or not.

playing a game through composite looks alot blurrier than playing through RGB , or even S-video.

since he wants to play his PS2, I would recommend getting component, as the image quality is near RGB (ive noticed it looks a tiny bit duller) but supports 480p, which RGB SCART does not.

the last comparison pics I did were pretty bad and didn't show the quality differene very well , thanks to my awful webcam (though recently I got a better webcam which might make that comparison better)

its not a matter of pixelated or not.

playing a game through composite looks alot blurrier than playing through RGB , or even S-video.

since he wants to play his PS2, I would recommend getting component, as the image quality is near RGB (ive noticed it looks a tiny bit duller) but supports 480p, which RGB SCART does not.

the last comparison pics I did were pretty bad and didn't show the quality differene very well , thanks to my awful webcam (though recently I got a better webcam which might make that comparison better)

Darkman2007

Composite Cables - basically the worst you can get other than RF (which looks like youre underwater)

S-video - middle of the way, better than composite, not as good as RGB

RGB SCART - basically the best you can get for the old systems, only problem is that its basically non existant in the US , its mainly in Europe.

Component - gives similar quality to RGB , with the addition of 480p support for the games that use it, however, pretty much any pre PS2 system isnt going to work with it (also , I don't know how well PS1 games will respond to this on a PS2, they were never meant to run with component)

Composite Cables - basically the worst you can get other than RF (which looks like youre underwater)

S-video - middle of the way, better than composite, not as good as RGB

RGB SCART - basically the best you can get for the old systems, only problem is that its basically non existant in the US , its mainly in Europe.

Component - gives similar quality to RGB , with the addition of 480p support for the games that use it, however, pretty much any pre PS2 system isnt going to work with it (also , I don't know how well PS1 games will respond to this on a PS2, they were never meant to run with component)

Darkman2007

the problem is that the PS3 upscales those games, making them look worse in the process (they look stretched out)

and playing a game via the PS2 will certainly not make it look like S-video , unless you really are using S-video.

besides youre the one who said composite looks the best if I remember correctly, something I find hard to understand.

the problem is that the PS3 upscales those games, making them look worse in the process (they look stretched out)

and playing a game via the PS2 will certainly not make it look like S-video , unless you really are using S-video.

Darkman2007

the problem is that the PS3 upscales those games, making them look worse in the process (they look stretched out)

and playing a game via the PS2 will certainly not make it look like S-video , unless you really are using S-video.

besides youre the one who said composite looks the best if I remember correctly, something I find hard to understand.

Darkman2007

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the problem is that the PS3 upscales those games, making them look worse in the process (they look stretched out)

and playing a game via the PS2 will certainly not make it look like S-video , unless you really are using S-video.

bigM10231

[QUOTE="bigM10231"][QUOTE="Darkman2007"]

the problem is that the PS3 upscales those games, making them look worse in the process (they look stretched out)

and playing a game via the PS2 will certainly not make it look like S-video , unless you really are using S-video.

Darkman2007

since Ive got a somewhat better webcam than before, again , a comparison (these were from a PS1 though , not a PS2)

Composite

S-video

RGB

also , using composite does not hide jaggies like has been suggested, you can still see them , just a little more blurred (but for that you trade away alot)

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"][QUOTE="bigM10231"]when i said s video, i was meaning ps1 on ps2 through componentbigM10231

yea some games look worse than others..

i play ps1 using my ps2 with component on my 1080p 63inch tv...

need for speed hot pursuit looks ok..simpsons wrestling looks very nice...yesterday i got metal gear solid 1..wow that looks very bad.. not blurry..just very very compressed looking...blocky..maybe thats what theguy above me called pixelated or whatever...

yea some games look worse than others..

i play ps1 using my ps2 with component on my 1080p 63inch tv...

need for speed hot pursuit looks ok..simpsons wrestling looks very nice...yesterday i got metal gear solid 1..wow that looks very bad.. not blurry..just very very compressed looking...blocky..maybe thats what theguy above me called pixelated or whatever...

KBFloYd

Actually, MGS looks bad cuz it's rudimentary 3d by today's standards. It's hard to go back and play that stuff after what we have nowadays. For me in regards to 3d, it didn't start looking decent/pretty good till the DC imo.

That is a perspective opinion though. Back in the early 90s, I loved playing ps1 games, they are just hard for me to go back to.