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Esto lleva varios meses en la calle, pero doy ahora con el vídeo promocional:

http://hummer.sega.jp/garage.html

Y el de Initial D AS5:

http://sega.jp/segachan/am/initialD5_pv.shtml

Turno del X-Mode:

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1234084_1124.html

A punto de anunciarse versión DS:

http://japan.gamespot.com/ds/common/0,3 … 74p,00.htm

Enlace: Game Nyarth 1.0.

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/ne … 60944.html

Nuevo vídeo sobre el modo Arcade que... enseña demasiado. Cuidadín:

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1234032_1124.html

http://blog.livedoor.jp/stghajimemasita … 60675.html

Wonder Project J 2, adaptado para los Foma 703i / 903i:

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/ne … 60731.html

The theory behind it is just that the bigger the size, the bigger the ability to mimic true scanlines' behaviour in a digital environment is. Keep in mind that true scanlines aren't perfectly regular black lines; they vary according to the colors they separate, being even virtually invisible with some colors like red if the screen is not too big:

http://i47.tinypic.com/acto21.jpg

In order to simulate the lines' 'melting', or getting closer to it--since that's still to properly simulate--we need a bigger resolution. Just compare Ronan's samples with any of Postback's screens. Of course, going further, if the size is big enough we could even work in a per-pixel basis for even more accuracy.

You'll soon get used to it. It's easy to understand why the emus' settings aren't 4 : 3 by default -- they're emulators, not simulators. Ideally, we all should be using video hardware capable of the original systems' video modes, so no artifacts of any kind would be needed.

Which "weird results"? "The emulator" removes the borders only if you tell it to do so. With a standard SFC game, you have natively 256 x 224. That's usually doubled for default non-windowed display with SFC emus. Given that 512 x 448 is less than VGA mode res (640 x 480), you get borders. If you want to get true full-screen, you need the emu or the video card to scale it to that res. It's an anisotropic, non integer scaling, so any pre-scaling effect will be affected and indeed the pixels are distorted.

Nope, I meant the game's default fake scanlines. This is material for the second part of my scanlines essay, so without elaborating it too much, many games for the old Japanese computers were designed with fake scanlines in order to prevent the always ugly line-double effect, given that they used graphics designed in low res for RAM and budget limitations.

So when you have something like this:

PC98 TRITORN II

...it's normally because the game was indeed designed so and not an emulation artifact, unlike, say, MAME's.

(And there you have who's the actual inventor of that thing so popular these days as is the fake scanlines. Not many people know that!)

I'd need to know the thumbnails' size in order to answer this, but unfortunately I don't think there'll be a very good way for non-photographs. Best way I can think of is taking the original, non-scaled screen (or just scaled to 4 : 3), adding curvature, blurring it a bit and touching up the colors if needed with IR Fan View.

I'd say so. But please, don't miss that the final conclusion in this thread, as I told you, is that ~ 640 x 480 is a pretty bad size for low-res screenshot purposes. If you're starting off right now, you should go for this size and these results:

http://img692.imageshack.us/g/4xsfiii.png/

Or better yet, photograph the RGB CRT.

Well, I'm not really sure that SFC POP runs at the system's high res mode (Are you? How?), but for those which do, you should get the screens to have a 4 : 3 aspect ratio, yeah. But it's exactly the same issue we have with SFC low-res screens -- they're 256 x 224. All the old 'CRT games' (saving Taito's double screen games and whatnot) are 4 : 3 (or 3 : 4). I'm not too anal with aspect ratio stuff for my screenshots as the Site shows, though, I just get close enough to it.

The real question here actually is -- how do we simulate the interlace of a high res mode like the SFC's?

Is that Wer Dragon?

See, that's what I meant. All the CRT games have a 4 : 3 aspect ratio. It just happens that many of them have also black borders, but those are also part of the screenshot itself. You'll find all the interweb emulator screens from PC88 and PC98 games at 640 x 400, but the actual hardware always left two black borders for a 640 x 480 full-screen resolution. So when you find this, for instance (PC98 Digan no Maseki):

...you actually should be editing it in order to get this:

Your proof, in case:

Forget this size and try ~ 1280 x 960 screens for everything. You can see Ronan's uploads are the way to go. Hi-res screens would get scanlines too at that size, but half their usual size (we still need to test that out). If you're using 640 x 480 screenshots despite my advice, be extremely careful with PC88 / PC98 games. They usually have default fake scanlines or other artifacts which don't allow for slight scaling / curvature or even blur without ruining the screen (that Wer Dragon screen, for example).