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PGamer · Apr 9, 2014

I saw a post on Reddit claiming that someone recently developed a fork of the Nintendo DS emulator DeSmuME that can render games in higher than native resolutions. As I've never seen a DS emulator do this before I thought I'd test it out and take some screenshots. They don't scale up quite as nicely as PSP games or more recent consoles (as expected) but some games don't look half bad.

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

Elite Beat Agents

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Metroid Prime Hunters

Ōkamiden

Pokémon Black Version 2

bobbychalkers · Apr 9, 2014

Getting PS1 vibes looking at some of these.

Magwik · Apr 9, 2014

Kingdom Hearts already has an HD version

chadboban · Apr 9, 2014

StaticJam said:
Kingdom Hearts already has an HD version

You mean the movie?

luoapp · Apr 9, 2014

Suddenly, I want to play Metroid Hunters with wiimote.

bobawesome · Apr 9, 2014

Kingdom Hearts doesn't look too bad but ewwww @ Golden Sun.

Iacobellis · Apr 9, 2014

You call this HD?

JMTHEFOX · Apr 9, 2014

Oh my god, these shots are amazing.

plainr_ · Apr 9, 2014

The graphics for KH 358 is the reason why I haven't played it yet. This up-res looks pretty good actually I may finally give the game a shot.

JordanN · Apr 9, 2014

bobbychalkers said:
Getting PS1 vibes looking at some of these.

Dunno. I watched an hour of Gran Turismo yesterday and it manages to push a lot more.

DS graphics always felt like a half point between GBA and PS1 sadly.

Sora_N · Apr 9, 2014

I wonder how Phoenix Wright would look. Or Pokemon.

Voliko · Apr 9, 2014

Looks terrible, as expected. Why no shots of 2D games though?

brandonh83 · Apr 9, 2014

Ah, I've always wondered what it is like to have a cheese grater saw across my eyeballs.

elektrixx · Apr 9, 2014

Interesting. Can New Super Mario Bros look like the Wii U version?

Sophia · Apr 9, 2014

Golden Sun looks awful, lol. The rest aren't too bad. Metroid Prime, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Quest actually look pretty good blown up.

BigEvilTurtle · Apr 9, 2014

Iacobellis said:
You call this HD?

Yes? HD refers to a higher than standard resolution.

Jaded Alyx · Apr 9, 2014

Iacobellis said:
You call this HD?

Do you know what HD means?

Piercedveil · Apr 9, 2014

Prime Hunters does not look all that bad.

captainwhat · Apr 9, 2014

This is like looking at a girl after taking off the beer goggles.

Grief.exe · Apr 9, 2014

Well they are ~720p which is referred to as HD resolution technically.

PsionBolt · Apr 9, 2014

The character models in Kingdom Hearts and Samus's arm cannon look surprisingly good.
Given the textures in these games, I'm not surprised at all at how bad everything else looks. That's more like what I was expecting.

plainr_ · Apr 9, 2014

Voliko said:
Looks terrible, as expected. Why no shots of 2D games though?

It's like stretching a low res picture.

Mory Dunz · Apr 9, 2014

What happens wth 2D games? Just stretching?

Bowser's Inside Story?

PGamer · Apr 9, 2014

Iacobellis said:
You call this HD?

Yeah, I lied a bit (1024x768 vs. 1280x720). As far as I can tell the 4x rendering available in this DeSmuME fork is just some arbitrary value and someone more enterprising than myself could probably get it to go higher.

sixteen-bit · Apr 9, 2014

Polygon fetishists rejoice!

AzureSkies · Apr 9, 2014

I'd like to see Pokemon, the only thing really pushing back Pokemon on DS was how terrible 3D looked on it.

epmode · Apr 9, 2014

I kind of love low resolution unfiltered textures, GAF.

Refugio · Apr 9, 2014

Golden Sun text hard to read and hurts my eyes as does everything else in the pic of course. Metroid Prime looks pretty decent though. Wonder how the pinball one would look. That was pretty good looking game I think.

Orayn · Apr 9, 2014

I really like how most of these turned out, actually. Reminds me of Tommy Tallian's work.

PeakPointMatrix · Apr 9, 2014

JordanN said:
Dunno. I watched an hour of Gran Turismo yesterday and it manages to push a lot more.

DS graphics always felt like a half point between GBA and PS1 sadly.

Ehh.. those Metroid shots look pretty good I'd say. Up there with some of the better looking PS1 games. KH character models are also high-tier PS1 quality at least.

plainr_ · Apr 9, 2014

With some texture mods some of these games could look very good.

Voliko · Apr 9, 2014

plainr_ said:
It's like stretching a low res picture.

Yeah I can't imagine it looking good. Would much rather stick to the DS screens.

InfiniteNine · Apr 9, 2014

Pretty much the only games that benefited from this are KH, Okami, and Metroid.

nkarafo · Apr 9, 2014

Damn, Metroid Prime Hunters looks like a PSP game.

BinaryPork2737 · Apr 9, 2014

Wow, Metroid Prime Hunters looks surprisingly good. I'm sure the games look even better when the screen isn't stretched.

Slixshot · Apr 9, 2014

looks like an n64

botty · Apr 9, 2014

plainr_ said:
The graphics for KH 358 is the reason why I haven't played it yet. This up-res looks pretty good actually I may finally give the game a shot.

It's one of the best looking DS games..........

sixteen-bit · Apr 9, 2014

Slixshot said:
looks like an n64

not enough blur or fog

Chesskid1 · Apr 9, 2014

need love plus screens

Oemenia · Apr 9, 2014

This is amazing, been aching for 3D filtering on DS emulators.

PsionBolt · Apr 9, 2014

Chesskid1 said:
need love plus screens

Good idea. Idolmaster Dearly Stars, too. Games which only render one model at a time and have it take up the whole screen will probably benefit more than most others.

Cade · Apr 9, 2014

Chesskid1 said:
need love plus screens

There are some in the first link of the reddit post

rjc571 · Apr 9, 2014

That needs texture filtering, badly.

BrLvgThrChmstry · Apr 9, 2014

Looks like what happened after PS1 & N64 had sex

bobbychalkers · Apr 9, 2014

PGamer said:

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kadotsu · Apr 9, 2014

This could be Nintendo's play to capture the Minecraft audience.

bobawesome · Apr 9, 2014

bobbychalkers said:
Thatsananus.gif

Girl, that's a bootyhole.

Andrefpvs · Apr 9, 2014

Those screens gave me some serious PS1 nostalgia for some reason.

XANDER CAGE · Apr 9, 2014

I have a huge soft spot for unfiltered pixel-y textures like this. Some of these shots are great.

Altazor · Apr 9, 2014

Metroid Prime Hunters looks damn good, to be honest.

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