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Oh wow, square pixels. That takes me back. Thank you for the link.

• rob74 6y ago
  OTOH, square pixels are mostly an artifact - back in the day, if you looked at the image your C64 or your SNES would produce on your TV, you couldn't really see the individual pixels as squares, because the low-quality analog display provided its own "antialiasing" - that's what emulators have trouble recreating...
  • jcelerier 6y ago
    nah, I have a CRT TV hooked up for retro gaming and things look pretty square
    • lmm 6y ago
      They're not sharp-edged squares, they're dots; they might be broadly rectangular but they'll have rounded ends and fade gently at the edges. Look at short-exposure photos showing a scanline in process.
  • city41 6y ago
    On CRT displays, a pixel can be rectangular. It depends on how many pixels are jammed into a line, which is completely arbitrary. This causes oddities with emulators as pixels are always square on modern displays. This is especially an interesting problem with the Super Nintendo, this video explains it all nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssluTgfkdlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssluTgfkdlg