![]() It's still a great house with a great foundation and nothing (or little) is wrong with it structurally, but would you keep the antiquated looking house in it's same outdated state because it's not how it was originally made? Would you not change the wallpaper, or not upgrade the plumbing, heating, air, insulation or roofing to keep it up to date because that may not how it was 40 years ago, even if it would give you a better living experience? I'm 26, so I played these games in their original glory before I was even potty trained, but I still love a good enhancement any day to keep my interest. Classic games are like an old, antiquated house. I can relate this topic to something else that would support we enhancement whores' stance on the issue. People are nuts for having such an absurd interest. Why watch remastered/improved quality versions of older movies(in other words, more contemporary) such as Star Wars or other classics that are re-released on DVD or BD? Might as well watch contemporary movies that are already clean and have great quality, though have shitty plots and are rushed. It's not changing the sounds or music, just presenting them in a more contemporary and pleasing manner.īecause to my mind if you're making an old game "more contemporary" then why not just play a contemporary game? I'm sure you thoroughly enjoy it, so why am I so bad for enhancing these games yet still having (likely the same) great nostalgic fun? I don't really understand the issue. I'm fine with your preference to mimic the experience and it doesn't make me sick. 256 by 240 stretched on an HD LCD screen will never look exactly like a CRT, so what's the big deal about using Hqx vs just blurring it and throwing a few color errors into the video? So my question is, why does it make you sick? These enhancements do not change the game play in any way, and unless you have the real hardware, emulation will never be 100% accurate regardless. I often choose 4, but I will at times choose 3 if I feel the filters have worsened things instead of improved them (I agree that the NTSC filter is fantastic for simulating the original look) Now, I don't own a CRT television, so I have 4 options:ġ) play it at the original resolution and use a fraction of the TVĢ) stretch it and deal with very blocky graphicsģ) use scan lines/NTSC filters to simulate the original lookĤ) use modern computing power to create an often pleasing, high-resolution representation of what the original looked like. I can understand preferring the original experience, but why so adamant against others "enhancing" the games? I am younger (but not 5 like you make is seem), and I did play NES towards the end of it's lifetime (starting around 1990 and well into the N64/PS1 era), so I experienced "The Truth" and it was fantastic at the time. TL DR version: Guess you can't, nothing to freak out over! People react the same way when someone asks for 3D vision support in emulators for newer systems. Some guys act like they don't use emulator features such as graphics filters and that any form of enhancement to these classics is the end of the world. I appreciate the information and how you handled the response. To be nit-picky, nestopia already has a "fake" stereo (creating two separate channels from a mono source), panning each individual channel is a simple (in theory, but not this case) hack that creates true stereo sound, but I guess could also be considered "fake" as the game was not originally intended to be in stereo. ![]() ![]() Here is a link for an example: Belmont: Thank you for your much more reasonable response. Since the sound effects aren't placed to begin with (mono) I don't mind it that much and enjoy the improvement to the soundtrack. The drawback is that the sound effects are also made with the same channels and you get improper placement. One of the best parts of NES gaming is the music, and the music sounds very good when the channels are separated (especially square 1 and 2). Yes, I like high quality audio, but no, I would not waste money on audiophile snake oil (I bought my last spool of speaker wire at target for 10 bucks and my floor speakers sound fantastic). Thanks for being such a dick, it was really productive. Desserts: I fully understand that the original system was in mono, but it did have multi-channel sound which means it could be mixed into stereo. ![]()
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