> Every picture & video I've watched of Pac-Man, the items on the screen seem a lot > brighter than in MAME. Esp the maze. I always thought the images looked to dark > compared to the actual arcade images. So, I was wondering if Pac-Man in Mame displays > everything correctly, and the images I've seen is just do to the camera making > everything look brighter. Or if the game actually was that bright on the old crt > monitors
MAME's display is correct with the correct monitor; back in the early 2000s when everyone used CRT monitors on their PCs there was no question that the image could be as bright as a cabinet. Similarly, people today building MAME cabinets with 15 kHz arcade CRTs get that same bright, vivid image.
By contrast, LCDs have a much narrower range of possible brightness (black areas on modern LCD TVs and computer monitors typically are actually dark grey at best, and full-on white isn't as intense as even a mediocre CRT). Plasma doesn't have that problem, but it's basically dead now. OLED may be at least a partial solution (the OLED screen on the PS Vita is definitely very vivid), but AFAIK nobody's making a desktop computer monitor with that tech yet.
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