/vr/ - Retro Games

filters most are pretty bad.
Scanlines from physical hardware and pretty nice.

>>2331856
what's the point? doesnt even look like a crt. like youre still playing on an hd monitor with a keyboard in an emulated window. all this filter bullshit is autistic nonsense.

>>2331873
The games were made with scanlines in mind.

>>2331878
That meme needs to die. It's not true.

>>2331881
Learn what 240p is and how's it's displayed.

Hell no.

The most I ever do is use Interpolation. Everything else sucks donkey.

>>2331856
y

That one in particular looks bad in that screenshot. But I've seen cases where it looks bad in a screenshot, but good at full size in motion.

I generally think filters that try to emulate how it would look on a TV are fine. I use them.

The bad filters are the ones that try to make things more "high quality" by trying to smooth things out. That's awful.

But the true evil, and I think all of /vr/ would agree, is people who don't use the proper aspect ratio. People who stretch 4:3 to 16:9. Disgusting.

>>2331856
The only filter I like using is Blargg's RGB for SNES9X. The scanlines are faint, and it displays the game in 4:3 instead of 8:7 without any pixel weirdness.

Granted, not every SNES game was designed with 4:3 in mind, though a lot of them are.

>>2331856
To a degree, yes. Filters, when used appropriately, add to the experience. Scanlines and NTSC filters give the game a more authentic feel, but overblown CRT effects such as tube distortion make things worse. Widescreen stretching and smoothing filters can make things work better on modern flatscreens, but overly-heavy filters can things to look muddy or splotchy and widescreen stretching can take awhile for some to get used to.