Wow, much improvement.

It shows some of the tricks of devs, which things are 3D-models (that get an improvement) and which are not (and look the same). I think this is visible in Okamiden for instance.

And the quality increase on Spirit Tracks is mind boggling. The devs obviously put in texture quality, that would never been visible on the DS-screen, look at the pictures on the wall in the second image.

But they don't. Remember these are sub 240p games(ds was 144p, right? ) being rendered in 720p, it's like a 20x increase in resolution. most of what we see today is 720-1080p, wich is hardly noticed.

Huge resolution bumps make a difference but normal bumps after diminishing returns (HD) don't.

Imo, dont waste you money with photobucket. There are plenty of other image hosting sites like imgur and tumblr that have unlimited bandwidth and unlimited uploads and they are also free. Use those instead of paying for photobucket! Also, this thread is awesome

So I am running the emulator alright on my old laptop at 4x resolution with AA. I tried both Metroid Prime Hunters and Final Fantasy IV. Metroid Prime Hunters works full speed at 4x with AA if I set frameskipping to 1. Otherwise it runs at like 95% full speed. Final Fantasy IV experiences slightly drops (3-4 fps.) Changing resolution doesn't do much. And even with frameskipping set to 1, these slight drops happen. It is very playable though. 57-60 fps is what you should expect. I haven't gotten sound to work to well yet on this computer. There is a static to it and stutters. I'll try messing with settings. 

Here are the specs. 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220875

Intel Core i5 460M(2.53GHz) (2.8 GHZ with turbo boost) This is a hyperthreaded dual core. 

NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M (1GB DDR3 VRAM)

4GB DDR3 1066

So anybody with a dedicated card and a moderately powered CPU should be able to run this emulator. For those interested in technical specs. 

Yeah, I'm using other sites from now on. Didn't want to reupload and repost all the pics though, so I caved in and paid the $3. And thanks! :) 

I thought the same.

Basically because Nintendo always uses the worst possible screens it can we never get any good looking games on their handhelds.

No difference 

(Note, from now on I am going to just say no-difference if a game doesn't have a noticeable difference, rather than take screenshots.) 

Remember, any game that relies on pre-rendered assets won't have any difference.