baphomet
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Here's a comparison with your retrotink 5x screenshot. Remember that your screenshot shows real colours, whereas my photos have washed out colours that don't represent what I can see in real life.
Your retrotink 5x screenhsot
How it looks on my LCD from up close:
Plasma
CRT
IMO not even my LCD show such extreme pixelation like your retrotink screenshot. On my plasma photo I can see aliasing that is inherent to this game, but there's no pixelation (simply because the image isnt upscaled so many times).
BTW- the dots on my photos, that's dithering, PS2 games had limited colour depth, so developers used dithering to mask colour imperfections. On SD CRT, the dithering dots are blurred, but at 480p they are clearly visible on both my plasma and LCD. IMO Xbox version looks and runs way better despite running at the same resolution (there is no dithering and aiming is much smoother and more responsive).
You realize the "pixelation" is the game right? Black specifically has nearly everything dithered and no AA.
You're not seeing it because youre displaying a non-native resolution image and the actual details are just getting blurred out during it being scaled to the panels native resolution.
That is the most basic knowledge for correctly scaling games.
Doing this from my phone, but even then it's easy to see the difference.
Which of these looks correctly scaled to you? CRT is just being included for completeness, it looks fine.
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