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Can you make DKC2 look good again?
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Mihael Mello Keehl
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I would like to see some nice pics too if I do say so myself.
Aquamarine
Member
what do i win
I've had more luck with the xBR filter.
Another workaround is to play it on a cellphone. DKC looks better than Rayman and Sonic 4 there.
I've yet to see a CRT filter that looks anything but hideous. At least not on my monitor.
neurosisxeno
Member
Only available on Wii U.
some crappy shots of DKC2 playing from a real SNES, via the XRGB on my 42" HDTV
You can't get clearer than that - and using smoothing filters via an emulator ruins the look of the game anyhow. You wouldn't go back to Citizen Kane and add a hip hop soundtrack courtesy of the RZA just to make it more watchable today, would you?
You can't get clearer than that - and using smoothing filters via an emulator ruins the look of the game anyhow. You wouldn't go back to Citizen Kane and add a hip hop soundtrack courtesy of the RZA just to make it more watchable today, would you?
Ok so I use OpenEmu and it's got a lot of weird filters, but I think these ones gave me the most positively interesting results.
First is "SABR", which I personally don't know what the letters stand for.
The pixels get "averaged" and smoothed together creating kind of a mess, in my opinion, but in motion it looks kinda good, and better in a pre-rendered game like Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
Next one is "LCD3x", which in other words it imitates Trinitron technology.
I dig the way the colors are channeled, but unfortunately it loses some brightness in the process.
And the last one is "CRT", which is pretty self explanatory.
The image is distorted in a fish-eye lens effect and got some scanlines applied giving it the illusion of having the real deal popping out of your screen. It also has a cheesy black frame getting along the curved surface of these TVs.
Personal conclusion: Better get an actual SNES and hook the sucker to a good CRT TV. You may find a cheap one in Goodwill or rush through the dumpsters where college students are moving out because these punks throw away a lot of actually useful objects.
It's kind of a cliché answer but for better results you can also adjust the video settings of the TV for further preferences like color saturation and contrast; not to mention CRT TVs have varying results on the desired effects.
First is "SABR", which I personally don't know what the letters stand for.
The pixels get "averaged" and smoothed together creating kind of a mess, in my opinion, but in motion it looks kinda good, and better in a pre-rendered game like Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
Next one is "LCD3x", which in other words it imitates Trinitron technology.
I dig the way the colors are channeled, but unfortunately it loses some brightness in the process.
And the last one is "CRT", which is pretty self explanatory.
The image is distorted in a fish-eye lens effect and got some scanlines applied giving it the illusion of having the real deal popping out of your screen. It also has a cheesy black frame getting along the curved surface of these TVs.
Personal conclusion: Better get an actual SNES and hook the sucker to a good CRT TV. You may find a cheap one in Goodwill or rush through the dumpsters where college students are moving out because these punks throw away a lot of actually useful objects.
It's kind of a cliché answer but for better results you can also adjust the video settings of the TV for further preferences like color saturation and contrast; not to mention CRT TVs have varying results on the desired effects.
Yes.
Look at this beautiful HQ4X filter. Marvelous! Like a current gen game!
BLARGHHARGHGRGH
Blows my mind how people somehow use the HQ filter. xBR gives far better results.
Even as it being better, the SNES DKC games are terrible candidates for these kinda filters, with their 3D intent. It looks better than HQ, but any filter on these kinds of games gives it a blocky look.
daninthemix
Member
Somebody needs to post an image with Blarrgs NTSC filter. That will be the best.
Yep. The only filter worth using for NES, SNES, and Genesis emulation.
chaobreaker
Member
Emulator filters disgust me. Vanilla or bust.
Not DKC2, but DKC3:
*Original assets only
Rare need to unleash their archives with this kind of shit, but it'll never happen.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Play it on a handheld?
linko9
Member
RetroArch with the gtu-v050 shader (I believe), slightly adjusted.
Wow, that looks really nice. Will have to try this shader out.
chaobreaker
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I still remember sitting outside waiting for the bus to arrive, in my hands DKC1, fresh bought from Toys R Us. I was reading the back of the box and couldn't wait to get home turning my Snes on.... i couldn't deal with anthing except the original state of the graphics!
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Get this gba chicken wing outta here
sixteen-bit
Member
re-render all the sprites again in high resolution
Nocturnowl
Member
You're hurting me BGBW, I try to forget Kerosene was even a thing.
Jelle
Member
I sadly cannot get my hands on my RetroArch setup or other screenshots for some days. However, the shader's author has provided a nice test-program that uses 1:1 .png/.bmp input screenshots and displays the shader's effects on it, which are also adjustable. You can find it here.
/edit: using that, I quickly made these (click for full size):
Detail:
ResidentDante
Member
This would be so fucking awesome. I wonder if they still have the original 3D files?
Hmm, you might want to run a virus scanner then.
Tesseract
Banned
i'm on a newly formatted nexus 7, it ain't me. sorry to derail
*edit* i think it's got something to do with deviant art, never mind.
Lynd7
Member
Not sure if Rare; Nintendo on the other hand, big maybe. Maybe Tim Stamper knows.
I thought you were making a double entendre, as was I....
No way in hell.
nkarafo
Member
Oh boy, looking at all these screens it makes me happy that i still have both my CRT monitor and TV. I just can't find something to make these games look as good on a modern setup. And it frightens me that someday these old devices will die and i won't be able to find replacements anywhere 
BTW, CRTs not only look better in still pictures, they also look better in motion. There is no blurring or ghosting, backgrounds are as sharp when they scroll as when they are still. Thankfully there are some advancements in this area on modern LCDs, i wonder how they compare with a real CRT though.
BTW, CRTs not only look better in still pictures, they also look better in motion. There is no blurring or ghosting, backgrounds are as sharp when they scroll as when they are still. Thankfully there are some advancements in this area on modern LCDs, i wonder how they compare with a real CRT though.
My words exactly!
Member
Get a Wii & a CRT, fire up Retroarch and set the resolution to 512x448p.
Boom
More info here:
http://www.libretro.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1585&sid=ff9dccc4203d6d7744b0b5315c91089d
Boom
More info here:
http://www.libretro.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1585&sid=ff9dccc4203d6d7744b0b5315c91089d
Aquamarine
Member
Pre-rendered assets will always stay at their native resolution.
If you have a low-res image on your computer, you can't magically make it high-res. You have to re-render it at a higher quality.
CSI: Miami proofed you wrong.
Magnify, enhance it, tint it and you can read the license plate
No
sixteen-bit
Member
I guess. Somebody is doing something similar with Alex Kidd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyB69dwRA0