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Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor?
12/18/11 03:01 PM


> In actual fact, that's the CRT screen's effect on games. They blur images slightly
> but destroy the pixelated look. MAME is emulating the games accruately to how they
> displayed boardwise (so connecting an LCD to outrun, it would look as pixelated as
> mame).
>
> EDIT: If you want this effect, as long as you have a good enough system you can
> enable HLSL (-hlsl) and mame will try to emulate a CRT monitor.

Maybe erev is thinking about that awful 1:1 stretch/scanline aspect that early versions of MAME used to be known for - e.g. 384x224 doubled and letterboxed in 800x600 mode (the graphics output being a squashed looking 768x448 in the middle of the screen).







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* Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? erev 12/18/11 01:59 PM
. * Thumbs down for the ardent participation in this thread.... mogli  12/23/11 11:18 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? Roman  12/18/11 02:29 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? Naoki  12/18/11 02:04 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? Heihachi_73  12/18/11 03:01 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? Envisaged0ne  12/18/11 04:43 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? B2K24  12/18/11 08:33 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? Envisaged0ne  12/18/11 09:18 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? karadaniano  12/18/11 10:33 PM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? R. Belmont  12/19/11 01:23 AM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? StilettoAdministrator  12/19/11 01:18 AM
. * Re: Why are the graphics on most MAME emulated games so... poor? karadaniano  12/24/11 12:44 AM

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