Nintendo power had tons of images taken directly from photos of CRT‘s. Some of them may have used your Method, but many of them (Especially contests) Specifically asked readers to send in photos to show whether they’ve done certain things.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can photograph a TV but making a screenshot was usually done by blitting the backbuffer somewhere.

[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did screenshots taken with the method you mentioned have bloom, Like you would see from an image taken from a CRT? I associate bloom in screenshots from being directly Photographed from the CRT.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I guess you can do both ofc ! And maybe you had to with say the C64. The PS1 you could do it through the devkit IIRC.