/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7915073
please take this thread back to /v/

>>7915073

>Game of Super Mario Bros

Question of what?

Good pixel art should never be filtered.

>>7915076
this has been a recurring thread here for years

>You weren't supposed to see the pix--

>>7915331
It even says dot matrix on that little label in the original

>>7915073
I can't believe Mario fucking died.
>The rest of the franchise is Luigi dreaming about what could have been if his brother was still around.

>>7915073
>Japanese creators make round, non pixelated cartoon illustrations of what the games are supposed to depict.
>Deemed too japanese to the western market.
>American branch just slapped the raw pixels on the cover and called it a day.
>decades later autists show the american art made by people unrelated to the creation of the game as proof that that's what the artists wanted to depict.
>Welcome to /vr/ the board about CRTs and emulator filters

>>7915101

>>7916752
He didn't die. He did a wall jump and lived.

Mario paint has a sprite maker tool where you can craft pixel by pixel.
Yes OP, back then we understood how pixels worked. We also understood they weren't meant to be zoomed in except for effects or things like that cover (which isn't an actual screenshot of the game, btw, it has extra details

>>7917549

>>7917549
> just fuck up all of my convergence
> now that's what a real CRT looks like

>>7917068
This is rationalization brought to the level of Cope-ixel art

>>7917613
>Mega Man's not supposed to shoot from a pist--

Super Mario Bros needs to be played on an RF singal, since there was no other choice on Famicom it's clearly what the developpers intended

>>7915073
>zoomer doesn't even know that game boxes never looked like the game

>>7917564
>Mario paint has a sprite maker tool where you can craft pixel by pixel.
what on earth are you trying to argue? current mspaint has a pen which colors a pixel, are games today supposed to have visible pixels because of that?

>>7917952
>visible pixels

The only way for pixels to be invisible is to turn off your screen.

Amercians can't stand straight edges, they want everything to be as round as them

>>7915101
Left is better.

>>7918036
Agree. The right one looks like I'm taking off my glasses.

>>7915101
Which shader is that on the right?

>>7915101
OP eternally btfo

>>7918193
A custom one I made recently, here https://www.mediafire.com/file/w6cak3tc0fs3i2m

>>7918248
Thanks. Too demanding for my laptop unfortunately.

>>7918272
>willing to accept random files on mediafire from schizos on 4chan
It's like you're begging for another lostboy.exe

I don't understand the obsession over filters and shaders and shit
It seems extremely insignificant and trivial, yet this board can never stop arguing about it

>>7918295
theyre shaders, retard

>>7918295
>lostboy.exe
And there you have it, don't run strange .exes
There's lots of shit people upload and link to the board and it's no problem, like soundrips or .wad files

Why can't you fucking troglodytes understand that it's a case by case subject?

>>7915073
>>7916752
I like how they put in the little detail of the fireball there. You know when you fall in a pit in a game or something and you desperately press the action buttons in a vain effort to save yourself? Yes, that's what they're depicting.

>>7919767
Because you gotta stick it to the pixelfags/blurfags!

If you're playing on a legit console connected to a real television that's one thing but emufags need to stop ruining their games with shitty filters that emulate what a television would have made the game look like

>>7917068
What about games like Gumshoe and Mach Rider that released in NA first?

>>7917919
>straw men prove my point
Capcom USA rushed this one to be finished and it's merely a forced meme that it's bad, but NoA worked with their Jap HQ in those very early days of the NES to make sure the boxes would both be appealing and representative of how Japanese Nintendo wanted their product represented.

>>7915073
CRTs are how classic games were meant to be played, no contest. HD flat screens simply don't hold a candle, Jack. Games just look terri-

>>7917595
Call me a pleb, but I don't see any convergence issues in anon's photo.

>>7921505

>>7915101

>>7921282
>and it's merely a forced meme that it's bad
This is advanced contrarianism.

>>7921505
That's now how you Candlejack you fucking fa

>>7921627
Is that the short-sighted filter on the right?

>>7921505

>>7921505
I miss back when we used to have Candlejack threads on-

Animation looks better. Look at the new metroid, ugly cartoon

>>7915073
Pixelated covers for the orginal line of nintendo games was to up consumer confidence. Nintendo didn't want consumers buying games with cool box art and being disappointed. They didn't care with later releases because their console and franchises were a big hit

>>7915101
>Thinking right actually looks better
I'll never understand crt bros

>>7922720
>deeper colors
>rich blacks
>defined lines
yeah, you'll never get it because you're retarded

Yeah, you aren't supposed to see the pixels because then you'd be able to tell the cover illustration is of a higher fidelity than the game actually looks; essentially what the game is imagined to look like and not what it actually does.

>>7922726
>defined lines
They're less defined by the virtue of being fuzzy.

>>7922681
Make sence, thanks for share it, have a great day!

>>7922323
It's the super fast filter

>>7921282
Source: ass

>>7921059
Still designed in Japan
Box art designed independently in the USA

>>7922720
also no blurring during motion
to eliminate motion blur on LCDs you need a really fast refresh rate and use black frame insertion and even then there are issues.

>>7921282
The US Megaman cover is a complete turd, the European one is how it was fucking done. Is it different from the aesthetic of the game and what the developers were going for? Fuck yes it is, it's westernized, but in a very good way, because it still depicts the characters very recognizably, and the art itself is very high quality.

There were lots of good painters available in the US, they could have settled for even just a decent one, but instead Capcom goes fuck it and just takes a hurried shitscribble. Luckily, the game is actually really good, so even if the cover art is a turd it got by on word of mouth.

>>7917068

The context is that in the American market, Atari had amazing cover art to cover up shitty games and unimpressive visuals. Consumers had no confidence in the gaming industry which led to the collapse. It was the decision of Nintendo of America to feature the in-game graphics on the cover of their early games to win back consumer confidence. Once they thought they had done that, they went back to using cover art.

>>7921627
h-hayai

>>7921627

>>7923458
>Consumers had no confidence in the gaming industry which led to the collapse.
There's quite a lot we can dissect with the pop history of the "Videogame Crash" but you're probably correct about Atari slapping nice cover art onto crap games prompting Nintendo to plain put the graphics of the game on the cover.

>>7915073
>Jeu de


I fucking hate Quebec.

>>7923440
Check out the European cover to The Guardian Legend. It's really good, I was actually surprised to learn this wasn't the original nip cover. It looks like it could've been.

someone post the ass pic

Reminder that blue skies are canon.

>>7915073
If you're going by that then I guess the NES is supposed to have more colours

I recorded it running on a CRT a few weeks ago

>>7923571
NANI

>>7923571
>Radical Mario