Panzer88 wrote:I can respect that, but I think that it is nice to emulate everything so that the machine is emulated well with no bugs and all games look right, and then simulating things that weren't possible on a regular system. Even simply viewing the games on a monitor instead of a tv raises the clarity (to the detriment of a lot of old games, but is not a bad thing in and of itself)
Many of those older systems actually DID have RGB output. If you had the right display, you could get that sort of clarity back in the day.
On the downside, if you had the right display, you probably lived in Europe, and were stuck with PAL50. So eww.
My RealSNES is hooked up to a 32" presentation monitor with s-video.
It is beautiful.
Ironically, PS1 games look worse, because the system is ENTIRELY too dependent on dithering. It NEEDS the composite blur. Even on sprite games like Valk Profile and Symphony of the Night.
My Ataris are... taking a vacation because they only have RF output. I don't have RF inputs on my game display. :'(
Need to mod 'em for s-video. Or at least composite. Though the s-vid mod is easier, so why go to more effort for a worse image? Not like they're high-enough res for dithering to be an issue.
I don't see what's wrong with it. The dreamcast itself could plug into a CRT and output with more clarity. I think doing this to a higher degree and on more systems (primarily polygonal based games) is a nice feature.
what is bad about it in and of itself? (assuming it doesn't cause any bugs and everything else is already perfect.)
The problem is it DOES add bugs.
Adding features like enhanced resolution changes the system behavior, since you have to hook it BEFORE the final render(the image filters on 2D emus such as ZSNES work on the final bitmap, so they don't affect the actual emulation. I don't like most of them in most cases, but that's another story.). Once you start changing system behavior, you're quite likely to bug something.
Or, god forbid, just wrapping the calls to your PC's 3D accelerator(which has a different feature set and doesn't even support everything your console does). And that's where boosted resolution "emulation" USUALLY happens.
The DC rendered at 640*480 regardless of what it was outputting, as I understand things. Hooking it to VGA didn't add anything but progressive-scan. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
VGA box also breaks a few games(I think there's something like 5 that can't be made to work with VGA). Id' bet it's because they hate progressive scan.
Devil May cry 1 wont work though 
