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sc94597 on 27 March 2015
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sundin13 said:
sc94597 said:
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. 

I play N64/PS1 games on my 42 inch TV and they look fine and are certainly playable. Games "that require atmosphere" like Dino Crisis and Silent Hill still work great in these resolutions... some people just have the miraculous ability of not really caring about graphics very much.

Are you playing them at their native resolutions/framerates on their native platforms? (VC games are rendered at 480p 30fps, for example.) Many N64/PS1 games are unplayeable due to their 20 fps alone, but if you add in a poor image quality (riddled with jaggies) then it becomes so bad that it affects how you can control the characters, which is a gameplay deficit. You might find it easy to deal with if you only play games you've already played before, but there have been countless times I played a PS1 game in its original resolution and couldn't continue because I actually couldn't see a lever or button pad device that I needed to press in order to continue. For atmospheric games jaggies and other graphical artifacts remind you that it is a video game and limit immersion. I'm not even talking about graphics. Just the quality of the image itself. The graphics are find, its the image quality hampering what you can actually se.