Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders)
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 weeks agoThe objective part is in whether it matches what the creator intended.
Sometimes they intended crisp contours, like in ClearType; sometimes they intended to add extra colors; sometimes they designed pixel perfect and it looked blurry on CRT; very rarely they used vector graphics or 3D that can be rendered at better quality by just throwing some extra resolution.
Many artists of the time pushed this tech to these limits, “objectively better” is to emulate that.
mtlvmpr@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
That’s not better. That’s more accurate. Is preference really this foreign of a concept to you?
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
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If you call this “preference”, then there’s nothing to talk about. Like printing the Mona Lisa on toilet paper and calling it a “preference”.
mtlvmpr@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
That looks bad sure but I wouldn’t look at that closely anyway and the filtered one looks even worse. I have played that game without any filters and I didn’t get any urges to use any. I have also played it on CRT but there wasn’t any choice back then.