Allnamestakenlol
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I'm poised and ready to pounce on cemu soon, think.
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Emulator Screenshot Thread
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I'm poised and ready to pounce on cemu soon, think.
That would be great would love to seem some completely new emulators breath new life into this thread.
Barrow Roll
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I took a bunch of screenshots from the intro of Metroid Prime to when you touch down on Tallon IV, but apparently we're not supposed to post more than 3 per post or double post so somebody reply if you want to see more.
I wish somebody would make a really nice texture mod for this game.
I wish somebody would make a really nice texture mod for this game.
Barrow Roll
Member
lostsupper
Banned
Okey dokey.
The widescreen HUD mod made plying in widescreen so much nicer.
Barrow Roll
Member
I'm playing the PAL version and last I checked the HUD mod was for NTSC. It might work on PAL, I could take a look into it, but the same mod doesn't exist for Echoes, and I'm all about consistency.
Barrow Roll
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With slightly higher texture resolution someone could take me this game was made for the Xbox One and I would probably believe them.
sixteen-bit
Member
It looks great to bad that Dof is affecting the HUD
Barrow Roll
Member
Yeah, Retro were truly technical wizards with the Gamecube hardware. You should watch the DF Retro episode about Metroid Prime if you haven't already seen it, great stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwhS76r0OqE&ab_channel=DigitalFoundry
Last couple pics I have from Metroid Prime:
And just for the hell of it, here's one of Samus' goofy friends from Corruption that I snapped while testing it in Ishiiruka. 4x IR, 2560x1440 DSR, 16x AF, FXAA.
Yeah, Retro were truly technical wizards with the Gamecube hardware. You should watch the DF Retro episode about Metroid Prime if you haven't already seen it, great stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwhS76r0OqE&ab_channel=DigitalFoundry
Last couple pics I have from Metroid Prime:
And just for the hell of it, here's one of Samus' goofy friends from Corruption that I snapped while testing it in Ishiiruka. 4x IR, 2560x1440 DSR, 16x AF, FXAA.
I actually have watched it
And thanks for the additional shots
nickfrancis86
Member
I absolutely loved this game on PS2. This is the sort of racing game we need in VR. Great shots.
Super Mario 3D World @5k
Wow those backgrounds really fall apart at the higher res.
Zombie James
Banned
Just wanted to chime in and say this is some great work. Looks fantastic.
Speaking of which:
Chrono Trigger with a slightly altered CRT Royale shader.
And this is just gorgeous.
I don't see it is 3d-modeled and with good detail. Only problem appears to be some borked DOF effect.
Barrow Roll
Member
Skyward Sword is an interesting game to emulate. Some of the effects it uses seem very resolution specific. Generally I prefer downsampling for most games as opposed to 1080p (my monitor's native res) + SSAA. It looks sharper, brings out more detail, and with a bit of post-process AA it looks really nice. Today I booted up Skyward Sword in 4k, went to the boss rush, and I started to notice that something looked...off. So I took some screenshots to compare.
3x IR, 4x SSAA, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 1920x1080
6x IR, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 3840x2160, resized to 1080p
You can see there's a soft glow around Link and the boss in the 1080p shot that becomes this weird outline in the 4k shot. And the shadow of the sword isn't rendering properly for some reason.
Here's what it looks like at native res for comparison.
https://abload.de/img/soue01-634sgv.png
And then there's the painterly DOF effect. If you've emulated Skyward Sword before then you should already know that this effect only really works as intended at native res. However, even at 1080p I think it looks pretty good. But at 4k, it starts to look a little weird.
3x IR, 4x SSAA, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 1920x1080
6x IR, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 3840x2160, resized to 1080p
Again, native res for comparison.
https://abload.de/img/soue01-5xwsj8.png
So if you're thinking about emulating Skyward Sword, consider using a lower internal resolution with SSAA, instead of downsampling and a higher internal res. It looks a bit softer, but it works for the style of the visuals anyways.
3x IR, 4x SSAA, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 1920x1080
6x IR, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 3840x2160, resized to 1080p
You can see there's a soft glow around Link and the boss in the 1080p shot that becomes this weird outline in the 4k shot. And the shadow of the sword isn't rendering properly for some reason.
Here's what it looks like at native res for comparison.
https://abload.de/img/soue01-634sgv.png
And then there's the painterly DOF effect. If you've emulated Skyward Sword before then you should already know that this effect only really works as intended at native res. However, even at 1080p I think it looks pretty good. But at 4k, it starts to look a little weird.
3x IR, 4x SSAA, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 1920x1080
6x IR, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 3840x2160, resized to 1080p
Again, native res for comparison.
https://abload.de/img/soue01-5xwsj8.png
So if you're thinking about emulating Skyward Sword, consider using a lower internal resolution with SSAA, instead of downsampling and a higher internal res. It looks a bit softer, but it works for the style of the visuals anyways.
I'm playing through Metroid Prime 3 at the moment, and I noticed the higher the internal resolution the worse the aliasing/flickering on floor textures gets. That's why I also resorted to using a lower resolution plus SSAA. But I'm wondering if there's a setting I got wrong, because normally I thought higher res = less flickering, right?
KojiKnight
Member
Why use fxaa when you're down sampling from 4k to 1080p? It's making the Metroid images needlessly soft imo.
Skyward Sword is an interesting game to emulate. Some of the effects it uses seem very resolution specific. Generally I prefer downsampling for most games as opposed to 1080p (my monitor's native res) + SSAA. It looks sharper, brings out more detail, and with a bit of post-process AA it looks really nice. Today I booted up Skyward Sword in 4k, went to the boss rush, and I started to notice that something looked...off. So I took some screenshots to compare.
3x IR, 4x SSAA, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 1920x1080
6x IR, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 3840x2160, resized to 1080p
You can see there's a soft glow around Link and the boss in the 1080p shot that becomes this weird outline in the 4k shot. And the shadow of the sword isn't rendering properly for some reason.
Here's what it looks like at native res for comparison.
https://abload.de/img/soue01-634sgv.png
And then there's the painterly DOF effect. If you've emulated Skyward Sword before then you should already know that this effect only really works as intended at native res. However, even at 1080p I think it looks pretty good. But at 4k, it starts to look a little weird.
3x IR, 4x SSAA, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 1920x1080
6x IR, 16x AF, Fullscreen Res 3840x2160, resized to 1080p
Again, native res for comparison.
https://abload.de/img/soue01-5xwsj8.png
So if you're thinking about emulating Skyward Sword, consider using a lower internal resolution with SSAA, instead of downsampling and a higher internal res. It looks a bit softer, but it works for the style of the visuals anyways.
That's really weird SSAA should just be rendering at a higher internal res and then downsampling. Or did you mean MSAA?
Barrow Roll
Member
MayImilae from the Dolphin forum explains it pretty well in this post:
If you want to use higher internal resolutions and you have an Nvidia GPU you can use DSR to downsample the image by selecting a higher fullscreen resolution than your monitors native resolution. However, this leads me to the next post I'm responding to...
Well, to put it simply, a raw 4k framebuffer still has visible aliasing. See for yourself.
No AA
FXAA
There's reason it's not only common for people to use post-process AA with downsampling, but also often recommended. Downsampling alone isn't enough to tackle aliasing. Because FXAA is applied to the framebuffer before downsampling takes place, the downsampling itself counteracts the blur introduced by FXAA, and the performance cost is basically nothing..
I won't label the resized images. The difference in sharpness isn't perceptible to me once these get resized to 1080p. Maybe if I stick my face right up to my monitor, but if I do that I'm just as likely to see aliasing as well. See if you can spot the difference without looking at the URLs.
Pic 1
Pic 2
And even then, this is just an approximation of what I see when I'm actually playing the game because Nvidia uses their DSR scaling filter (I set smoothness to 0% at 4k) and I resized the images in Photoshop using Bicubic.
No, I meant SSAA. And sort of, but not exactly. I'll let Techreport explain:
You can read more here: http://techreport.com/review/27102/maxwell-dynamic-super-resolution-explored
That looks terrible. The DOF effect is a bit harsh.
:-/
These on the other hand look just phenomenal. Same with the Metroid Prime pics.
KojiKnight
Member
Too bad Sunshine is the red headed step child of the Mario universe... A remaster would be glorious.
BTW you can actually play it at 60fps on Dolphin without any major issues (I used the Ishiiruka build). It does look quite nice and at this framerate it surprisingly plays really well and I'd say it feels more responsive and snappy than the Galaxies (despite me not caring for some aspects of SMS's controls/mechanics).
Yea... but there's still an amazing 8.5/10 game there. The others just happen to all be 9s and 10s.
Talley Rand
Neo Member
sixteen-bit
Member
^awesome pics!
Velocity:Design:Comfort
Banned
Thank you all for the feedback. Maybe I'll start a thread when the pack is a little more substantial. It's coming along pretty well now.
Here are some more shots, again project 64 2.3 + GlideN64 (current release candidate build):
Old treeline here.
I like this a lot, but I want to say that Link in Majora's Mask actually does NOT have the Hylian Shield, but the hero's shield, which looks different. I don't know if you should use a hylian shield design for it (even if it looks pretty nice, good job on that). Itd be cool to see what you could do for the Hero's Shield design.
daninthemix
Member
Seriously. I actually want to go back to these games because of that. How do you use this? Do you have to use a specific emulator?
Talley Rand
Neo Member
Super Mario 3D World @5k
I think you just sold me on the WiiU version of Breath of the Wild. That looks incredible
legolas119
Neo Member
hi guys
i'm setting Retroarch in order to play some emulators.
First i configured Nestopia for Nes, bsnes accuracy for SNES and FBA Arcade for Neo Geo. For every core I configured:
Aspect Ratio = Core-provided e Integer scale = Off
Well, which is the best shader that i can apply for each emulator in order to emulate a Sony trinitron crt (I have it)?
Using bsnes for Super Nes it seems that some good shaders are: crt-aperture, crt-lottes, crt-hyllian.cgp, crt-easymode.cgp or crt-royale- kurozumi.cgp
But by default, none of them has a quality similar to my Sony Trinitron crt...
what do you suggest?
thanks!
i'm setting Retroarch in order to play some emulators.
First i configured Nestopia for Nes, bsnes accuracy for SNES and FBA Arcade for Neo Geo. For every core I configured:
Aspect Ratio = Core-provided e Integer scale = Off
Well, which is the best shader that i can apply for each emulator in order to emulate a Sony trinitron crt (I have it)?
Using bsnes for Super Nes it seems that some good shaders are: crt-aperture, crt-lottes, crt-hyllian.cgp, crt-easymode.cgp or crt-royale- kurozumi.cgp
But by default, none of them has a quality similar to my Sony Trinitron crt...
what do you suggest?
thanks!
sixteen-bit
Member
That looks great.
Pakoe
Member
Being honest this pains me a bit. Having something being emulated just days after release feels like it will hurt the game on its original system.
As for the content of the shots it looks sharp but appears to be missing the all important grass
I wouldn't worry, it's still a couple of months away from being properly playable.
And yeah, the grass isn't properly rendered yet. I expect that to be fixed in the next couple of updates.
That's a least a bit of a comfort. Also, don't let my comments deter you from posting more shots it really does look good and I'm interested in seeing more of it.
Barrow Roll
Member
It's still pretty much unplayable at the moment, and probably will be for quite some time.
Skip ahead to around 6 minutes to see what happens when Link tries to fight a Bokoblin.
It's nice to see Mario Kart 8 so clean after being a jagfest on Wii U.
It's not really playable, and the CEMU team is raking in so much Zelda cash on their Patreon I figure they're going to dole out updates really slowly from now on so as to not lose their newfound support. A victim of their own success you could say, although in this case the victims could be their very supporters.
It will probably a long while before it can be played from start to finish without major issues.Sleeping Lesson
Member
Wow Breath of the Wild looks incredible at 4K. I can't wait until it's truly playable at that resolution. Some of the areas already looked beautiful at 900p with low view distance.