Posted: 18 November 2003 at 03:10 | IP Logged

Didn't know where to put this topic, guess this is the best place. Don't know it MoG or MoG2 can use this, but, hey, it's COOL.

http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html

Fernando.

Posted: 19 November 2003 at 04:01 | IP Logged

As hqXx is for realtime, I see few or no point in storing precalcs! :-) Just MHO.

Fernando.

Posted: 19 November 2003 at 09:53 | IP Logged

Impressive things indeed these Magnification filters and Smart Texture filters.  It's odd that this complicated things can be done.

Posted: 23 November 2003 at 21:42 | IP Logged

I have played around a bit with HQX and it works very nice

Posted: 24 November 2003 at 13:58 | IP Logged

Yep, there's no mistake that those character graphics were taken from the SD-Snatcher.  That's one the best RPG games I've ever played. I wish someone would remake it, so I could play it again...and even make some updated graphics.  I can always wish.

About the hqXx library: It will also suit for a remake game and not only on emulators if using it on the original graphics of some old pixelated game.

Posted: 26 November 2003 at 11:28 | IP Logged

Snatcher: Gotta love that one too!  One of the best Hideo Kojima's game ever, if you ask me.  I've Snatcher for the SEGA-CD Emulator, because I haven't got the original CD...yet.

Snatcher has been made for various platforms, but in opinion the SEGA-CD version is the best. But is it better than the PC-Engine version? I don't know. It depends of the graphics, sound effects, quality of speech and of course, it depends how little it has been censored for american audience.

Posted: 12 February 2004 at 16:24 | IP Logged

Hey, I've just found out that openMSX uses these smart scaling rotines. Check this webpage:

http://msx.vampier.net/

I looks great.

For the record, here some screenshots taken from this same page:

Looks great!

Posted: 12 February 2004 at 19:32 | IP Logged

Well... of course a photograf won't scale. The process uses colors to identify lines. On a standard photo there's no a single pixel equal to another so the program is unable to identify any straght lines (in fact, there is no straight lines in a photograph). On a comic graphic there's allways a background and "objects" that have a clear outline... the program idetifys this outline and fills up de gaps he thinks with the outline color... the gaps he is not sure of he uses blended colors... and from there on, that's about it.

There might be some clever tricks in the code, but a computer can't "invent" resolution like it did in Blade Runner.

I think that including these scaling capabilities in the code is a good idea. Keep in mid that now many of us use 1200x1024 and in some time we might en up using 1900x1850 ... or what ever... right now I have a 19'' tft screen that looks fine at very high resolutions... so good scaling capabilities is sure a good idea.

Posted: 25 January 2005 at 05:15 | IP Logged

lol!!!!

I never saw this topic here before :) those screenshots are made by me to show people what a scaler actually does. These are made with openMSX in the time that the scalers where just implemented... I asked the programmers if they could implement it.. and so they did.

At this moment openMSX is the best emulator imho, I am not saying this because I'm on the openMSX team but simply because it has more features then blueMSX (which is imho #2 with a very short distance)

Anyway... gfx9000 support will be included in the new version, it is already included in the CVS version of openMSX (pre 0.5.1)

Posted: 22 February 2005 at 01:52 | IP Logged

openMSX is good but it has some issues with the audio part, and this is one area where blueMSX is quite a lot better. When it comes to functionallity openMSX and blueMSX are quite equal. openMSX has support for some hardware that blueMSX doesn't support and vice versa. Most of the devices supported by only one emulator is usually quite uncommon.

Over all, blueMSX is easier to use and also more accurate but openMSX is worth checking out as well. Both these emulators are way ahead of any other emulator and the differences are quite small so it is more a matter of which one you like to work with. Both emulators are also updated quite frequently so keep an eye on new releases.