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I've seen some games on Steam that use filters to emulate a CRT to try to make pixel games look more like we remember them. I wonder what a similar endeavor wo
by bsimpson 2y ago
I've seen some games on Steam that use filters to emulate a CRT to try to make pixel games look more like we remember them.
I wonder what a similar endeavor would look like for video. I've been messing with my old Wii this weekend and am kinda shocked at how bad it looks - just stretched to fit with an awful anti-aliasing filter over the top. It's probably not worth the effort at any scale, but there's gotta be a better way to upscale old content than to just blur it. It didn't look blurry in its day.
- deergomoo 2y agoHm, I’m curious too now. One could quite easily, though not cheaply, put this to the test with a RetroTink 4K which has excellent CRT emulation options. I suspect it would look pretty cool, and probably better in some way than a plain upscale that a TV might do. The big difference is that old games were often designed around the characteristics of a CRT, whereas films were (obviously) targeting film and cinema first and foremost. CRTs were the best those games ever looked, whereas at the time a tube TV was the worst way to watch a movie—albeit it the only one accessible at home. I think the effect would be quite impressive for old TV shows shot on tape though!