/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8791162
Damn the supersai filter(or whatever its called) did my boy mad dirty

Among the best reaction images.

hell I'm laughing right now

>>8791162
Reaction image thread?

>>8791162
There's truly no better /vr/ based reaction image

I'll contribute to this thread

>>8791246
Replace that shitty sans sonic picture with this much superior /vr/ approved alternative

>>8791274

>>8791274
>>8791246

Even on the coldest nights i eat my own cum

>>8791285

>>8791274
don't care didn't ask

>>8791342

>>8791285
M-MODS!

>>8791162

just like the devs intended

>>8791162
Does anyone even have the original screenshot that this came from?

I resent that every time I look up an old game on YouTube now, I have to be ready to find a better video if one of these stupid filters is used, and I have to be ready with my aspect ratio changing browser plugin in case the idiot uploader decided that absolutely everything must be in 16:9. And even when they do use a tolerable filter, it's ALWAYS just one of those generic blurring ones, not something that actually looks good. Well except in the case of Game Boy games - some video creators do actually use authentic-looking Game Boy filters. But I've seen nice-looking filters on absolutely no other emulated systems, for some reason.

N64 and PSX videos are the worst. Idiots can't get the idea that aspect ratios even exist through their stupid heads, and way too many of them think that higher resolution means better graphics so they turn on that emulator feature too.

>>8791162
Filtered

>>8791162
>>8791172
what is the point of this filter? was it made as a joke?

>>8793448
It was created in the 90's for very underpowered PC's so it's a very simple filter, also you're not supposed to see it so zoomed in. DKC actually looks pretty good with SuperEagle when you see the entire screen from a reasonable distance.
Even back then people who were actually playing the games at the same time they were emulating thought sharp pixelated unfiltered games looked wrong

>>8793448
It's zoomed in so it looks worse than it actually is but yes there are people who actually play retro games on modern screens and believe that a shitty filter looks better than the blocky-as-fuck unfiltered version.

>>8793448
It was early emulation, before LCDs even became a thing

>>8793474
To add to that, they were created because games looked too sharp on pc monitors and ironically people thought it looked bad in comparison to playing on a real system

>>8791970
kek I love this

>>8792382
i don't think the "official" longplays channel does any of that shit

>>8792270
https://voca.ro/1kIBbnh7sbHr

>>8793512
Unbelievable. I always thought the OP image was an out-of-context exaggeration, but that picture is really something else.

>>8791162

>>8791970
had this for gbc when i was a kid, never got very far, the little disease creatures kept getting my castles.

Was this an actual good game?

>>8793512
I don't even wanna know what this would look like in motion

>>8793519
>>8793613
Now... how the developers truly intended.

>>8793512
Soul

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>>8792170
Scanline use in an emulator should be evidence for insanity in court.

>>8793665
That is completely uneven as well though

>>8793634
Just like Grandma's busted 1975 Zenith.

>>8793651
>Woah, dude

Am I just crazy or is it normal that I've played games in emulation with no filters on for so long that I kinda prefer the look of raw pixels now?

>>8793495
Yeah I'm pretty sure World of Longplays does everything unfiltered

>>8793651
Funky's house looks like a TURD now.

>>8794129
I'd say the latter. Like other anons have said, early on in the history of emulation most people either used bilinear filtering or use one of the classic filters such as 2xSaI, SuperEagle, etc. In fact, I recall whenever I downloaded an emulator, they almost always defaulted to use bilinear filtering, and filters were touted as improvements or enhancements.

I think what happened, and what ultimately got filters to become passe, including bilinear, was the switch from CRT to LCD monitors. The classic filters were made for CRTs, usually for playing at 480p i.e. 2x scale, but LCDs, being fixed resolution displays, couldn't do them justice, and they looked like shit as a result, or in the case of bilinear, looked even blurrier since they're scaling much higher. So you had a period of roughly ten years or so between the mass switchover to LCD tech and when fancier shaders arrived where people just decided to stick to nearest neighbor because that's what looked best on LCDs.

>>8794181
It's also worth remembering that filters like 2xSal and SuperEagle were popular in an era of low resolution / definition CRT monitors.

These days with good quality flat screens, seeing "raw" square integer pixels can be more appealing.
"Oversampling" upscaling for video game art is also pretty appealing, with a high enough resolution display it can preserve the look of integer scaling, with no sort of bilinear blurring.
In retroarch, the sharp-bilinear-2x-prescale filter does this nicely.

>>8794129
Kind of the same for me but I like shaders now. Made a preset that smooths things just a bit while keeping relatively sharp.

>>8793665
living the life bro

>>8793634
t-thanks doc...

>>8793651

>>8791162
>Super Eagle 2x SaI
looking real good

>>8794671
>sharp-bilinear-2x-prescale
Seems like sharp-bilinear and sharp-bilinear-simple are less blurry on 1080p. I cycled between sharp-bilinear, sharp-bilinear-simple, sharp-bilinear-2x-prescale with a hotkey to compare. I'm not sure what prescale the regular and simple versions are using but it automatically chooses 2x/3x/4x depending on resolution and display.

>>8791349
white Carlton

Is there a filter that can display images like in real hardware (left), or are CRTs still the way to go?

>>8794129
>first time ever using an emulator
>turn on filter
>"wow this looks terrible"
>never turned it on again
I'm not a graphics snob or anything and I was just a dumb lad first getting into emulation so it wasn't like I saw other people complaining about filters and the memes that are out now, I just kind of recoiled and never went back.

>>8796398
I mean we all remember the horror of SMW or MMX with the smudge filter on from ZSNES

>>8795751
From that up close I think you're going to need at least a 4k monitor.
also, game?

>>8795751
CRT-guest-advanced is probably your best bet, but you gotta mess with it some. Try mask 9, and dick around with the mask strength, convergence, and bloom settings

Zoomed in way to far on a crt from am original game and system

>>8794129
If you didn't realize that games looked better on the TV within the first 5 minutes of using an emulator, you're a zoomer or PCsperg

>>8796869
Try again.

>>8796421
I use a 4K TV as my monitor. Don't know the game, just reverse search.
>>8796432
Thanks. I have a few CRTs, but not enough space where my chilling area is. I've tried different layouts, but ends up too cramped, so I'll have a look at emulation.

>>8797197
>>8796421
It's FF6.

If you're outputting to a 4K TV, consider trying the Sony Megatron shader, especially if you can output in HDR.

>>8797243
I'll give it a try, thanks. I'd do HDR, but for some reason Linux still doesn't support it and probably never will because the community is so butthurt that they say "HDR is nonsense etc etc I suck dick every day".

>>8796894
The latter, I never had the consoles as a kid. That being said we were all using CRTs for monitors back then anyway.

>>8794807
just as the developers intended, controller and all

>>8791162
What is it, your period?

>>8793468
>DKC actually looks pretty good with SuperEagle
No it doesn't. These empiric filters only work on low color graphics like on NES. DKC is photorealistic graphics (it isn't a praise) so it does look much better in natural filters (bicubic etc). Even better than pixelated.