That is insane, I knew this would look stunning in HD by playing it, but wow!
Someone should try to run Codename STEAM on it. Game looks terrible on the OG hardware but I really wonder how it would look in 1080p.
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3DS Emulator Citra Now Supports HD Rendering
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That is insane, I knew this would look stunning in HD by playing it, but wow!
Someone should try to run Codename STEAM on it. Game looks terrible on the OG hardware but I really wonder how it would look in 1080p.
Movalpolos
Banned
Looks amazing. And now I don't want to play any 3DS game until this emulator is running them at full speed.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Lol exactly
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
dual stick kid icarus is gonna be good.
Movalpolos
Banned
I'll finally be able to play the game.
NotDreamcast
Member
Damn son.
R10Neymarfan
Member
Someone from gbatemp forced some texture filtering, some gltiches ofc
More here
https://imgur.com/a/dkNzB
More here
https://imgur.com/a/dkNzB
captain_skyhawk
Member
If only we could have a true hd pokemon game that was also online.
nimbusstev
Neo Member
One step closer to finally being able to enjoy 3DS games on the big screen! I love 3DS games but I have the hardest time hunching over that tiny little screen.
If Nintendo won't make a "Super Gameboy / Gameboy Player" for the 3DS, the homebrew community will do it instead. I can't wait until these actually become playable!
If Nintendo won't make a "Super Gameboy / Gameboy Player" for the 3DS, the homebrew community will do it instead. I can't wait until these actually become playable!
BONKERS
Member
That's any game without decent AA though.
Just imagine however, if Nintendo released a Main Pokermans game on Wii U when it was launched looking like this. Or on the NX. It would sell like hotcakes.
storafötter
Member
Kirby and Mario looks incredible. I cant wait to see how pokemon looks like.
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Woah Pokemon looked better than expected.
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Woah Pokemon looked better than expected.
GearDraxon
Member
Looking fantastic. Now if there was only a way to emulate the 3D, it would be per-
*looks at Rift on table*
Oh yes.
*looks at Rift on table*
Oh yes.
Toadthemushroom
Member
I'm clearly in the minority but I think Pokemon looks horrific at 8x the resolution with texture filtering turned on and antialiasing.
The game's artistic style always seemed like it was made so that the 3D character models looked like sprites - indeed if you take a still frame of them when the game's running in the ballpark of 240p you get that intended result.
Likewise a lot of the textures have been designed to look great without texture filtering turned on, and I think they disabled filtering as a stylistic choice.
Turning filtering on, antialiasing on and upping the resolution 8x just gives the game a really inconsistent look now, and robs it of some of its unique identity (Pokemon X/Y are pretty visually dissimilar to other RPGs of the era due to their quirks mentioned above).
That aside, Pokemon X/Y is clearly a game designed around the 3DS's display resolution, at 8x you just expose the low-poly geometry in the environments and the textures have lost their crispness.
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Zelda and 3D Land hold up really well, though. No surprise about the former (Nintendo used 480p screenshots for Ocarina of Time 3D and they looked great), but I wasn't expecting 3D Land's textures to still look great after such a huge resolution jump.
The game's artistic style always seemed like it was made so that the 3D character models looked like sprites - indeed if you take a still frame of them when the game's running in the ballpark of 240p you get that intended result.
Likewise a lot of the textures have been designed to look great without texture filtering turned on, and I think they disabled filtering as a stylistic choice.
Turning filtering on, antialiasing on and upping the resolution 8x just gives the game a really inconsistent look now, and robs it of some of its unique identity (Pokemon X/Y are pretty visually dissimilar to other RPGs of the era due to their quirks mentioned above).
That aside, Pokemon X/Y is clearly a game designed around the 3DS's display resolution, at 8x you just expose the low-poly geometry in the environments and the textures have lost their crispness.
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Zelda and 3D Land hold up really well, though. No surprise about the former (Nintendo used 480p screenshots for Ocarina of Time 3D and they looked great), but I wasn't expecting 3D Land's textures to still look great after such a huge resolution jump.
DrROBschiz
Member
Imagine a world where 3DS hardware wasnt shit
This is the result
This is the result
no wai
mntorankusu
Member
I've got an FX-6300 overclocked to 4.2 GHz. I'd guess that something like a 6700k (at stock speed) is about 50% faster than mine.
Other specs are kind of meaningless, but I've got 16GB of RAM and a GTX 970.
By the way, anyone expecting to be able to play Kid Icarus with a dual-analog controller are going to be disappointed. The Steam controller is the only thing that has any possibility of producing a playable result.
3D Land looks ridiculously good:
Nintendo truly are lowpoly masters
Impressive. Looks like 3D World with simpler graphics. It's amazing what Nintendo is able to do with such limited hardware.
Somebody do Starfox 64 3D at 4x so we can compare it to Star Fox Zero.
Heee no.... but still great looking
-shadow-
Member
I wouldn't be surprised if the 3DS game actually looks much better.
Stairouais
Member
If nintendo's next thing's screen still have a NES resolution I swear...
It's funny because it's true
NES: 256 x 240
3DS: 400 (800 in 3D) x 240
Makes it a damn awesome homebrew retro emulation device though.
Link_enfant
Member
That looks really amazing. If only Nintendo planned to make NX backwards compatible with 3DS games and render them like this (or even better)...
But I thought people said Game Freak are lazy.
It's a lot more than 50%
At stock depending on the benchmark you're looking at somewhere 2-3x the performance http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-AMD-FX-6300
Assuming a linear power progression with the overclock (it's not) it's still about 180% of the 4.2ghz 6300's power (going by the cinebench score). More realistically you're still looking at about 2x the performance on a 6700k stock vs the OC'd 6300.
Then of course OC the 6700k and your back to square 1.
JohnTinker
Limbaugh Parrot
Would like to see MH4U as well, and Codename STEAM
Orniletter
Banned
You need a way to dump your own games, so better not get rid of it so fast.
TheDinoman
Member
What do you mean, exactly? The game technically does have dual analog controls built into it. By going into the options menu you can set it so the face buttons move the reticle around or set it so the left circle pad controls the reticle while you move around with the face buttons, Turok style.
Distresssss
Member
Between rendering res and framerate that is precisely why I don't play console games anymore outside of Nintendo games.
Pokemon models on 3DS are bloody brilliant though. They made those to last a few generations for sure.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Yeah, I'd go as far as saying it's the last device that'll truly do 1:1 pixel mapped pixel art. It was nice to see pixel art in even AAA handheld games like E.X. Troopers (it's all over the HUD and interface).
And I don't really think the 240p resolution is a bad thing, at least on the 3.5" screen size of the original model. The pixels are small enough that even non-pixel perfect content doesn't stand out. That stuff annoys me a lot on the 4.8" 3DS XL screen though, always has me adjusting the 3D effect so stuff is "pixel perfect" in the z axis in games which don't ensure this.
A "retina" version at 480p instead with imperceptible pixels at normal viewing distance would be amazing though.
thehillissilent
Member
This looks soooo good.
soxinthebox
Member
Those screenshots are insane! So much going detail is lost at the 3DS' native resolution!
Nintendo, why you no make games like this for Wii U?
Imagine you had released this early in the life of the Wii U and gave it your biggest ad blitz ever?
well this is fucking amazing
they could easily use those models on Wii U/NX and make a Pokemon Stadium game
or pokemon snap
damn it nintendo
Green Yoshi
Member
Can you play those games on a 3D TV?
Phenomenal Flea
Member
Wow, I was totally satisfied with my 3DS until I opened up this thread. Truly cannot believe how well OmegaRuby polishes up when rendered in HD! My word. Emulation is amazing! It's a relief that backing up carts is so easy, it'll feel good to be emulating your own backups.
Teletraan1
Banned
As someone who loves RPGs and hates handhelds for their poor ergonomics when this gets stable and performance is up to par this is something that would interest me greatly. It wasn't until PPSSPP got good that I could actually play all the PSP games I bought.
artsi
Member
Won't be years at this pace. But depends on the game, some are more difficult to emulate.
The games have been online since 2006, so you wouldn't have to worry about that, at least.
Chû Totoro
Member
For NX I want upscaled VC games.
This looks glorious !
This looks glorious !