Looks very good even on my desktop's 21 inch (or 22 inch? I forgot) widescreen LCD monitor. I found it to be the optimal solution, close enough to what you would see on an actual TV if you had an actual SNES hooked up, while still being upscaled and not pixelated as fuck on an LCD monitor with resolution far superior to that which the SNES did output. It also IMO more or less matches the NTSC filter without the 'fuzzyness' or 'noise' of a TV screen that makes text unreadable and causing eye-strain (at least for me). bsnes-hd has more hacks that give true HD in mode 7 SNES games and widescreen in other games.īiggest advantage of using 25% scanlines and interpolation over HQ, super eagle or other filters when upscaling is that text and other shapes are accurate without looking too low res. The difference is that official bsnes only has slight visual improvements but with mostly perfect compatibility.

Some of the features of this fork are or will be included in official bsnes. Some non-HD related features – Like the ability to disable background layers, sprites and window effects for screenshots for wallpapers or soft crop to zoom in, leaving maps or static art off the sides of the screen. Works for most Mode 7 scenes, but also for some other scenes/games, after some setting tweaking. Widescreen – Extending the scenes to the left and right, without distorting them. It is a higher resolution version of the process the SNES uses. This does not involve new custom imagery or upscaling algorithms. HD Mode 7 – Rendering the rotated, scaled or pseudo perspective backgrounds at higher resolutions.

Bsnes-hd is a newer fork of bsnes, released in 2019 by DerKoun, that adds HD video features, such as:

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