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This guy speaks in such a way that he has got to be sincere, and if he's not, then he's confused as hell.

No, I'm pretty sure he's sincere AND confused as hell.

I think there's a pretty big difference between being confused and a moron.

I think there's a pretty big difference between being confused and a moron.

The whole point of my wall of text is that the original resolution in which a 3D game is rendered MATTERS. It's OBJECTIVE. There is no "the resolution doesn't really matter!" -- it DOES matter. There are things that can directly depend on the very specific resolution the original game hardware expects. Yes, there are PC games with arbitrary resolution support (the majority of them even) but NO, CONSOLE GAMES DO NOT TEND TO PLAY WELL WITH ARBITRARY RESOLUTION.

Even if it's just minor glitches, like the edges of a sprite rolling over to another part of the spritesheet, or some piece of geometry not lining up with another, THE GLITCHES ARE, WILL BE, AND MUST BE THERE to render the game at a resolution it's not meant to be rendered at.

A HUGE part of the point of console games is that devs only need to target a small set of resolutions, framerates, hardware behavior, etc. They WILL abuse this privilege and make things that only work perfectly on the console itself, because that's totally legitimate! That's the whole point of "Accurate" emulation. That's the whole point of making a distinction between "vanilla" and "enhancement" behavior.

No, I'm pretty sure he's sincere AND confused as hell.

So you have no arguments except insults .

And somewhat related, even 2D graphics can be messed up by hi res enhancements. If you allow filtering to try to make the pre-rendered backgrounds in games like FF7 look nicer at the higher resolutions you get ugly, usually green, gaps between sections due to the loss of edge precision.

Do you have a visual example of this phenomenon? Personally, I accept actual screenshots, mockups, and MasterCard.

https://copy.com/p3gUh67sAfpVHyoY
Distortion on the logo due to logo being chopped into chunks in the original game to save texture cache. Not visible on real hardware because of polygon edge precision. Not avoidable because the individual polygons don't have any "rollover" data. Allowing nearest neighbor filtering defeats the purpose of using a higher rendering resolution.

https://copy.com/2L4gBni8EIAWKk0J
Text hard to read because of texture edges and sub-texture edges. Forcing nearest neighbor filtering is workable but not accurate to what the game is asking the hardware to do.

https://copy.com/ScEkFWNh3gTStWQw
Visible garbage on text edges because of polygon edge rollover. Not visible on real hardware because of polygon edge precision. Also note the seams on the item grid.

And this shit's just off the top of my head. If I REALLY wanted, I could find something totally gamebreaking, like this one part of disgaea.

None of these are emulator bugs. These are all caused by the way in which the original game is generating the geometry for the emulator to render. To fix these bugs would be a hack in itself.