Upscaling your old video games using emulators
Are there some games you miss, but trying to play them again would just look horrific on a modern display? Well this is where upscaling comes into play. There are plugins for many consoles that allow you make the graphics look much better by using your video card to render them in a better way.
You can upscale anywhere from 1x to 8x, and making use of a 4k monitor makes sense when you upscale a game that far. Many console emulators for the PS1, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast and others allow this upscaling. Though you do need a video card with a decent amount of memory. I use a 290x on one of my PCs and a 1080 in another computer to do exactly this. So some larger video cards are needed to upscale drastically.
If you have any questions about this or need help upscaling let me know and I would be happy to help you out. I am currently playing Vice City again with upscaled graphics and I have really been enjoying this game that is almost 20 years old now.
Links to a couple emulators that support upscaling:
I am recording the gameplay and will post it once I get through my other gaming content I have not posted just yet.
Knowing I can do this makes me think about old games I gave up on as I did not want to go blind trying to enjoy them on a modern LCD display. But now I can revisit those games.
So far I have mostly been upscaling to 1080P but looking forward to upscaling all the way to 4k which would be four times the resolution of 1080P. Hope my video cards can handle it.
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I tend to use emulators a lot! I have a lot of classic games that I like to play and although some games have been "remastered", it just doesn't play the same for me. Maybe I like the nostalgia.
Nice, yeah emulators are awesome.. and they have come a long way!
Some remastered games were not redone well, and also sometimes upscaling makes the games took too changed for my liking so I feel ya.
Yeah that classic look is something special and when you run them on CRT monitors they look pretty good.
My old faves are Astroids, Galaga (sp?) and Missile Command. Joust was one I remember playing and that old Lunar Lander was cool.
Oh cool, those are the arcade games from the 70s and 80s. I think upscaling only can work on 3D games, but maybe people have found ways to remaster the games you mentioned.
Haaa... I guess I am pretty old.
haha its all good, we all have the games we grew up with.