curl-6 said:
I also play SNES games on my 32 inch HDTV in glorious 256x224, still playable. :p |
SNES games don't really scale with resolution. Many of their assets are pre-rendered. Try an original N64 game. It'll probably be "playable" even at 240p but not very enjoyable since you will not see certain things clearly in the 3D environment (at screen sizes >32 inch and a distance <6ft away.) PS1 games are even worst because many of them have a mixture of pre-rendered and rendered assets. So often you'd have blurry characters and items that are rendered in 3d polygons on a relatively crisp 2d backdrop. And any game that requires atmosphere, like say Majora's Mask is ruined in this scenario because you can't enjoy the good aesthetics. Even on the 3DS Majora's Mask is riddled with jaggies which hamper the aesthetic improvements the game offers, I can only imagine what it'd look like with the original N64 verison on a big screen (non-CRT) television at its native resolution.
