Super Mario Galaxy - 720p through Wii emulator.

[MaxwellGT2000]

WereKitten said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Call me when the emulator works 100%, makes the textures higher rez automatically without someone having to redraw them all AKA remaking the game, and makes the 3D models better.  Which it won't, ever, so the game will never really look "better" just the same with less jaggies and more pixels.

People get excited over nothing is my point here, we've already had comments in this thread implied rendering the game in 720p is "ZOMG AMAZING" and people are getting excited over nothing especailly when the game looks worse because the emulator screws up the graphics.

"The same with less jaggies and more pixels" is a bit of an oxymoron. If it has less jaggies and if they add AA and if textures are less muddled in the distance because of higher rendering resolution (which won't need higher resolution textures) and if the same 3D models will show more details (Mario does in those shots) it will not look the same, it will almost certainly look better.

It might be not different enough for you, nor is it very important for me, but I have friends with big HD screens and projection systems that find a 480p picture with no AA very unsatisfying. And again my point is not what this GC/Wii emulator does right now, but what it can be done with Wii games, especially by Nintendo.

The game has always had AA, you can only see jaggies if you get right up on the picture if you're playing the game on a 1080p set you can't tell there are any jaggies until you either get right up close or blow it up on a giant projector, both of which are uncommon and not practical.

I'm figuring the game is probably doing times 2 AA already the 720p screens are probably times 4 or 8 AA which you don't need on your typical home set up. 

The things the 720p images lack is a lot worse then the gaining of a bit more AA and resolution.  Again to really mae an improvement you'd need to redraw the textures, make sure the emulator can run everything correctly, and give the models more detail, which all this means they'd have to remake the game...