#input lag

[cobaltnephilim]

Gives your robot girl input lag so it takes her a moment to process anything before she can do it or react to it.

By the time she starts pouring the orange juice into your cup you've been staring at her for a few seconds.

Her fans whir faster as she tries desperately to speed up her motions, but this just results in her spilling orange juice everywhere as she pours it all out at once.

Tossing her a ball or a pillow to catch and seeing her stumble over herself as she lunges at where the ball would have been a few seconds ago, leading to her crashing to the floor as she can't stop herself in time.

You'd get to watch her struggle with even mundane tasks and be hopeless at anything timing-based, how long would you let her suffer before finally letting her go back to normal input speed if at all?

[n64retro]

It's a real problem the input lag when you try to play Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch Online app. So this meme is actually sad but true.

[vgperfection]

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An essential part of any gamers AV toolbox, this little box can help you analyse any video chain for input lag, supporting multiple resolutions from 240p up to 1080p.

[smbhax]

My PS2 and its aging laser are in the cupboard now alongside a PSOne, PC Engine Duo, Dreamcast, and NEOGEO CMVS--because the emulator PCSX2 runs Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution with exactly the same input delay as the PS2 itself on my set-up--5 frames--and with far greater screen resolution and convenience. Huzzah! = D

I measured this with my usual crude 60 fps cell phone footage method.

Session: https://youtu.be/mWKUCKr2WCo

[smbhax]

Crudely testing input delay in Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service: Grand Master Challenge (Dreamcast) when run in Flycast. Just 1 frame of delay on my set-up! ^ _^

Video of test: https://youtu.be/mITomUUGibU

[plantelo]

I don't know if it's my TV or the Switch dock, but I have such an atrocious input lag when playing on TV that in tablet mode, conciously adjusting for the early timing, I still don't manage better than a fifty-fifty on tricks in MK8 despite hitting them almost every time when docked.

[smbhax]

Rough test of input lag in the PS3 PS1 Classics version of Darkstalkers 3 on my set-up, which includes a Hori HRAP V 2017 arcade stick, a 4x2 component matrix switcher, an OSSC, a 5ms display lag monitor, and a slim PS3. On a computer, if you're playing this video at 60 fps, you can pause playback, then advance one frame at a time by pressing the "." key, and count along with me the frames that go by between the arcade stick's light punch button being fully pressed down, and Morrigan beginning to play her light punch animation--just make sure the video playback quality is at a 60 fps setting in your YouTube player.

I counted 5 frames of delay for Morrigan's light punch, in VS mode.

That's two frames more than the 3 frame delay I measured by the same method for Darkstalkers 3 running on a PS2: https://youtu.be/u51LZAfhXqE . So that's a bit more delay than I expected for PS1 Classics, dang.

[smbhax]

Rough comparison of input lag in the PS4 Capcom Arcade Stadium versions of Progear and Gigawing on my set-up, which includes a Hori HRAP V 2017 arcade stick and a 5ms display lag monitor. On a computer, if you're playing this video at 60 fps, you can pause playback, then advance one frame at a time by pressing the "." key, and count along with me the frames that go by between the arcade stick's button being fully pressed down, and the shot beginning to come out of the ship--just make sure the video playback quality is at a 60 fps setting in your YouTube player.

I counted 5 delay frames in Progear, and 7 in Gigawing.