mZuzek said:
Ganoncrotch said:
Just keep in mind that emulation can massively increase the internal resolution that those games ran at, sometimes with early 3d it can make huge differences which really aren't a case of "do the original games still look good" when no one really played say... Metroid Prime Hunters in 1080p on a DS
I mean.... the game looks great today... as long as you are increasing the resolution miles above the original games.
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Yes but that's my point, I'm not really judging based off emulator screenshots. I know the ones I posted are in emulated 1080p, because it's hard to find decent screenshots that aren't, but then again the jump from 480p to 1080p isn't nearly as dramatic as whatever the DS's resolution was to 1080p. In any case, when I thought "Metroid Prime 1 & 2", they came to my mind because of how amazed I was by their looks when I played them on the Wii U, which sure has widescreen and better image quality than the AV cables of old, but it's still just 480p and it looked incredible.
Edit: also, even on the DS resolution Metroid Prime Hunters does look quite impressive. Sadly, that's the only redeeming quality about that game.
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I gotta say I loved hunters on the DS, thought the controls were fantastic for a game to give you dpad movement like WASD and the touch screen aiming of a mouse along with shoulder shooting... think it was as close as you can get to KB/Mouse controls on a controller really.
It just amazes me that the rom of the DS game has such high resolution textures in it, but requires an emulator to pull them up close like that to get the most out of the game, I mean... both screenshots are coming from the same DS game file... it's incredible to consider what work Nintendo did but for it to be let down so badly by the hardware they used, makes you think what their other games could have looked like in each generation if they had gone the route of insane hardware rather than being such genius's in the field of software instead.
That said.... they strike a fine balance for me most generations! I do not mean to knock the Switch's hardware, just some food for thought though!
