/vr/ - Retro Games

So in my last job I was helping sell some custom arcade emulators. They worked with retropie and they were awesome desu.

But something has gotten into my head from that, we constantly argue both with coworkers and with the clients regarding the look of the videogames specially in pixel art.

It seems people on their nostalgia either enhance what they think games looked like back then, and what they actually look like. And the fack that CTR had such low resolution sometimes scaled in a blurry manner made matters worse.

So people tend to prefer somewhat they remember (blurry stuff) than the actual look of the sprites (square pixels), at least those who are more casual into the thing.

I personally grew up more with emulators and HQ of the early 2000's so I find the pixels rather fascinating. But needless to say, some types of video smoothing does bring interesting looks, almost like oil paitings.

What do you think /vr/? In what way do you like your emulators to run most of the time? Do you still use CTR with older consoles?

And what do you think of "new retro" modern games that use pixel art as their basis? should they apply some video smoothing or are they better like that?