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My son still needs to figure out how to drive straight lol but he’s rocking it at Paper Mario TTYD.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is top tier parenting

[–] tenextrathrills 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don’t agree. Graphics on older consoles was designed to look good on CRT displays and can look really bad on newer ones. At best this is negligence.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most emulators have video rendering filters for this kind of concern; they have for a long time. SNES9X from more than a decade ago already implemented.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is GameCube on Dolphin which re renders the whole game is 4K. No pixels visible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your MacBook display isn't 4k, buddy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Aspect ratio is off (3024x1964 MBP vs 3840x2160 UHD) but it's not exactly a low resolution display.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SNES9X from more than a decade ago

This emulator came out 26 years ago and IIRC, it had filters by the very early 2000s at the latest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That is indeed more than a decade ago

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is running Dolphin which can render 3D graphics at higher resolution. Then you can apply high res gesture packs. It ends up turning the game into a next gen game. That only really works with 3D games. snes and other 8-16 bit consoles still benefit from a CRT.

[–] tenextrathrills 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

honestly I’m just glad you brought gaming to the Mac

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to see this so downvoted in this community. Maybe people missed the sarcasm in that last bit, lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Considering some of the absolutely braindead honest takes on the Internet, it's hard to tell if it's sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you are aware that the gamecube was one of the consoles with digital output right?

unlike its sucessor wii which only used analog output, the gamecube was capable of outputting to modern tvs due to having the digital output.

[–] tenextrathrills 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I remember the GameCube digital output sucking and going back to using the composite av cable, hence the post.

Get out of here with the “are you aware” poindexter bs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

which doesnt apply to all games on said device. an example is that viewers vastly prefer the cleaner footage that comes off of streams generated by dolphin using slippi over wathing the native crt footage. unlike a single individual (yourself) generalizong the preference, this is a real life scenario with thousands of viewers on the same content, many of which is also very used to the crt as many are also players.

coming from a person who lugged a crt just for melee in college for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, we might want to consider calling CPS. It's unacceptable that any child should have to undergo older games on newer hardware.