CRT, all the way. For those trying to learn the game, I highly suggest that they obtain a CRT somehow because that's how the game was meant to be enjoyed.

I use a COBY flatscreen and both the NTSC and PAL versions of SMK play just fine on it, no lag. PAL plays in black and white but this is due to an NTSC set being unable to decode PAL color data. You could put the SNES in 60Hz mode, and PAL will play in color, but it will play too fast, and the "beeps" of Lakitu's starting light don't sync with the lights.

Joe Reinreb wrote on 06/24/16 at 17:57:44:


Since when have Jack Richardson, Esther van der Meer, and Tanja Huber been listed higher than me and you?  
(Or about 400 other PAL people for that matter)

Black and white usually wasn't a problem for me, but the first NBT spot on CI2 was an exception-- those blue blocks really blended in with the brown chocolate when both showed up on my screen as the same shade of gray. I blew a couple of easily 1'08"xx runs because of that. There were a few other spots in the game where picture clarity was also an issue. I think I wouldn't have had as many 5lap crashes in general if the game could be displayed exactly as it would on a PAL TV, so I don't feel too bad about the (in my opinion) sub-par rank I achieved on PAL-- I was playing with a small (but not negligible) handicap. I believe you were as well, and that may well be part of the reason why Matt is about to take your PAL U.S. title.  
I remain grateful for what Antistar and FFVIMan have done for me...  

I have a plasma flatscreen. The input lag is terrible, so I only use it SMKwise to sharpen up for CDMs. On a side note, training and refamiliarizing on either a plasma, or playing online with zsnes is actually really good as when you go back to a CRT everything feels really easy lol.

Would love to have a CRT setup to play on, but unfortunately our house is too small to do that.

At least 98% of my Time Trial sessions were done on a CRT TV 36cm. ^^ If I'm not wrong, I only use a 51cm at the end of 2008 when I catched NTSC NBT #1, and only because I couldn't use the 36cm one (it was black & white colors).

Eric and I purchased a CRT television at a goodwill in Monroe for $40 which was a pretty big rip off considering that the most expensive one I've come across over here in Germany was only 15 euros but still in yet it was totally worth it.  I've played on 4 different CRT's over here but not enough to the extent that I was able to pinpoint pros and cons between flat and bubble screens.  However whenever I have space for more than one tv then I will most definitely conduct an experiment