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2018 Emulator Screenshot Thread!

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Bomblord

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Nick Pal said:
No LOD patch at the time I took this shot but in the latest Cemu there is one. I took this shot when I used to have an ultrawide monitor (21:9). It's actually a series of shots which are stitched together. I used reshade too.

A few more.

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Xenoblade Chronicles X | Cemu

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BOTW looks a bit blown out in that top image, good overall. The Xenoblade one is just gorgeous.
 
Talley Rand

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Kvik said:
Game: Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniax Chronicle
Emulator: PCSX2 v1.5.0-dev-2472
Resolution: 2560x1440
Settings: OpenGL renderer, 8x Internal Resolution, 16x AF, Aggressive CRC hack, 2xFXAA
Other: Widescreen and 480p patch, ReShade FXAA + SMAA + LumaSharpen

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Looks mindblowing without all the goddamn blur and aliasing. PS2 SMT games in general have this timeless aesthetic feel to them but Nocturne certainly takes the cake. Btw, if you're using reshade you may want to check the latest version, which has the new superior sharpener "filmicanamorphsharpen", it causes less artifacts.
 
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HalStep

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i have to admit to cheating here,the game is unplayable at 4x so i'm playing it a 2x but it just doesn't look good enough for pictures.for that reason i'll only post these.

hopefully that first one isn't considered inappropriate,just let me know and i'll edit it out.

PCSX2 / ghosthunter / 4x IR / 16x AF

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Bomblord

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HalStep said:
i have to admit to cheating here,the game is unplayable at 4x so i'm playing it a 2x but it just doesn't look good enough for pictures.for that reason i'll only post these.

hopefully that first one isn't considered inappropriate,just let me know and i'll edit it out.

PCSX2 / ghosthunter / 4x IR / 16x AF

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Can't see anything inappropriate at a glance all look good thanks for the pictures.
 
Bomblord

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potatohead said:
Yea definitely Nintendo's commitment to clean graphics and iconic artstyle it just works so well with resolution scaling, there is simplicity but pertinent features and excellent combination and contrast of colours pretty much universally in their games, as a clean graphics whore I always appreciate it
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You said it more eloquently than I could lol. Almost every 3D game they have made scales beautifully because of that. Really comes down to the focus on color over detail and the frequent use of geometry over textures to show what detail the art does have.
 
Barrel Cannon

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I can't believe how insane those Persona Shots are. Also the Smash/Paper Mario and Xenoblade Chronicle X shots are all mighty impressive too. Crazy how well some of those games hold up when rendered in higher resolutions.
 
petetnt

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Apparently I can't post threads on ResetEra but this thing is pretty wild and might prove useful for this thread

http://prilik.com/blog/wideNES

wideNES is a novel technique to automatically and interactively map-out NES games, in real time.

As players move within a level, wideNES records the screen, gradually building-up a map of what's been explored. On subsequent playthroughs of the level, wideNES syncs the action on-screen to the generated map, effectively letting players see more of the level by "peeking" past the edge of the NES's screen! Best of all, wideNES's approach to mapping games is totally generalized, enabling a wide range of NES games to work with wideNES right out of the box!
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Fishsnot

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The art direction (that was clearly limited by hardware) is outstanding in a lot of these games.
At least now we can see the artists true vision of how these games were originally intended to look.
 
1-D_FE

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potatohead said:
Yea definitely Nintendo's commitment to clean graphics and iconic artstyle it just works so well with resolution scaling, there is simplicity but pertinent features and excellent combination and contrast of colours pretty much universally in their games, as a clean graphics whore I always appreciate it
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I remember back in the PS2/Gamecube/XBox era there was an interview with one of MS' head guys. And he made the comment about how Nintendo really prioritized giving their main characters a high poly count over the rest of the game. It really was meant as more of a criticism, but even at that time, I didn't really think it was a very good putdown.

History has shown it was absolutely the right approach. Even Gamecube games tend to look fantastic when rendered at high resolutions in Dolphin. If you had a limited poly count and your environment was going to be starved regardless, why not let your main characters look great and have the environment be stylized? It certainly proved the correct approach in hindsight. Only thing better than Nintendo games running at high render resolutions, is running at high render resolutions and stereo 3D. So pretty.
 
TheWooniestWoona

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Wave Race Blue Storm
Dolphin (4x res I think)

The reflections in this game are still impressive as heck. I wanted to grab a few more shots, but it kept crashing on me whenever I'd change tracks.

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Not as beautiful as the rest but I just managed to get my DS cart ripper working and only had 1 game to test it with.

Behold the worst original harvest moon game made.
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Game: Onimusha Warlords
System: PlayStation 2
Emulator: PCSX2
Enhancements: 4x IR, FXAA, Shade Boost, Diagonal Filter TV Shader (built-in)

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HalStep

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i gave up on ghosthunter,far too much slowdown after reading up on it i'm not surprised.so i've moved on.

PCSX2 / Evil Twin / 4x IR / 16x AF

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Bomblord said:
That looks absolutely terrifying I've never even heard of this game before.
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full (UK) title is Evil Twin Cyprien's Chronicles,i've had the disc for years but never got around to playing it.i'm still very early in but so far it seems a decent platformer.

it runs flawlessly as well so far in PCSX2 except the cutscenes where it tries to go 4:3 letterbox but the widescreen hack makes only the middle of the screen letterbox.
 
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