wraggster
April 30th, 2015, 09:55
I hear you ponder, the Nintendo DS was incapable of getting anywhere near a resolution you’d call “high”, how could this be? The answer: emulation.
Via this /r/games thread (http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/348d50/highresolution_ds_emulation_on_android/), the latest beta version of the Drastic emulator for Android has a feature that lets users test out high-res rendering for 3D objects in games. You’ve no doubt seen similar things before, whether on official HD remasters or other emulators (http://kotaku.com/5866481/how-to-play-wii-games-in-high-definition-on-your-pc), but there’s something about the scale involved with the DS that makes it fascinating. It’s one thing making good-looking GameCube games prettier; it’s another to bring clean lines to games that had previously known only blur and giant pixels.
While the HD clean-up only benefits 3D objects — textures are unaffected — there are still plenty of games where that makes one hell of an impact.
You can see more screens in this GAF thread (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=798812). The Idolmaster ones, like the one below, are just insane.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/04/30/nintendo-ds-games-look-like-high-res
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UblOrvdd--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1230707441408693094.png
Via this /r/games thread (http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/348d50/highresolution_ds_emulation_on_android/), the latest beta version of the Drastic emulator for Android has a feature that lets users test out high-res rendering for 3D objects in games. You’ve no doubt seen similar things before, whether on official HD remasters or other emulators (http://kotaku.com/5866481/how-to-play-wii-games-in-high-definition-on-your-pc), but there’s something about the scale involved with the DS that makes it fascinating. It’s one thing making good-looking GameCube games prettier; it’s another to bring clean lines to games that had previously known only blur and giant pixels.
While the HD clean-up only benefits 3D objects — textures are unaffected — there are still plenty of games where that makes one hell of an impact.
You can see more screens in this GAF thread (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=798812). The Idolmaster ones, like the one below, are just insane.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/04/30/nintendo-ds-games-look-like-high-res
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UblOrvdd--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1230707441408693094.png