Not any emulator I’m familiar with. It upscaled it like it was a regular photo, not a screenshot of a digital program. Emulators would upscale by even multiples to keep things looking clean & sharp, and even if they were poorly scaled up they would just look blurry but normal.
This upscaling interpolates information and rounds out pixels in a really unnatural way.
Why is it slop?
Because it’s AI upscaled the very least. That’s not what an NES screenshot looks like.
I see. Does it not look like that when upscaled by an emulator?
Not any emulator I’m familiar with. It upscaled it like it was a regular photo, not a screenshot of a digital program. Emulators would upscale by even multiples to keep things looking clean & sharp, and even if they were poorly scaled up they would just look blurry but normal.
This upscaling interpolates information and rounds out pixels in a really unnatural way.
These upscaling filters have been around for 20+ years. They’re not AI.
Are you familiar with scaling shaders? There are several that are designed specifically to round out pixels, like superSAI, XBR4x, or HQ4x.
Personally I think they’re hideous, but some people do use them. It’s not AI.