Yeah, fortunately softmodding acts as a backdoor to make that part of the system have a healthy afterrmarket replacement. Which is useful because man, that thing had less storage than I remembered.
They are pretty cheap, no harm in having one on the side for your older consoles and games; they really improve the visuals. Plus the retro look goes crazy if you integrate it into your setup properly
The price range is generally from $50-$500 but you can definitely get some cheaper than that on Facebook marketplace I'm sure
You could also just rip the cathode ray tubes out for a fun time
That’s because Sega of Japan was jealous of Sega of America making Sonic the Hedgehog popular worldwide through America, so they went and developed the Saturn independently of them and the two companies got mixed up.
That was how Sega stopped making hardware and became another third-party publisher.
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.