[UPDATE] mGBA adds high-res scaling in its latest development builds

raxadian · May 22, 2019

So it will make GBA games look like 3Dish Sega Genesis games?

regnad · May 22, 2019

Jeez, this thing is stuttery as crap for me even at x1 enhancement using OpenGL.

My computer isn't top of the line, but it's by no means terrible. Any suggestions?

spectral · May 22, 2019

Hard to say for sure without knowing your PC spec but likely the only solution is a more powerful PC, although it's possible as the features are developed they'll be further optimised.

wiewiec · May 22, 2019

Nice... GBA games always looks terrible on TV, now it is super

lordelan · May 22, 2019

Can't breath after watching that video and looking at the Mario Kart screenshot on Twitter.

Elalexyzoner said:
This on switch would we awesome!

Compared to bSNES we can hold our hopes up since mGBA exists as a libretro core as well so we might get those features in RetroArch at some point.

Kazalber · May 22, 2019

Can't wait for it to come to the Switch

Deleted member 388531 · May 22, 2019

To everybody asking for a Switch port, it most likely won't happen without a lot of optimization. Getting around 45FPS at 6x on a i5-7300HQ and 1050 Ti on the latest dev build.

Fates-Blade-900 · May 22, 2019

This is great! It'd be even better if I had a 4K Monitor. :cry:

Edgarska · May 22, 2019

Mr. Looigi said:
Yeah, for some reason it isn’t that simple for me. Sometimes I’ll leave it searching for a half hour and when it’s finally done, no results

Have you tried WinDirStat?

FAST6191 · May 22, 2019

Edgarska said:
Have you tried WinDirStat?

I like windirstat and all but that is an odd approach.
Everything from https://www.voidtools.com/ on the other hand.

Granted this might just be a search index needs rebuilding.

Alex4nder001 · May 24, 2019

Can't wait for this to arrive on the Switch!

Edgarska · May 25, 2019

Edit: wrong thread, but while I'm here I would just say I tried this with a few games and it's very impressive.

MushGuy · May 25, 2019

Come on, Snes9x! It's your turn now!

Deleted User · May 27, 2019

This needs to get on Lakka (once HDmGBA gets it's bugs fixed ofcourse!)

PrincessLillie · May 27, 2019

I prefer to play games in their original resolution, but I can definitely see why this would be popular.

Issac · May 27, 2019

So exciting to see this! Would love to see a big bunch of comparison screenshots. Granted I haven't looked that much for them, but the SNES ones had pretty clear before and after images, while I've only seen the after images for this one. So it's difficult to really appreciate the improvement

Gonna have to look for some more screenshots

regnad · May 27, 2019

I've gotta say if my PC struggles with this, I can't imagine the Switch is going to have an easy time of it.

FAST6191 · May 27, 2019

regnad said:
I've gotta say if my PC struggles with this, I can't imagine the Switch is going to have an easy time of it.

It depends.

The general idea behind these sorts of mods is 3d is all about manipulating points in space. Being maths then multiplying it by arbitrary numbers, and maybe adding some smoothing, anti aliasing, precision in the "texture", precision in "shadows", an additional subsurf render or something, is trivial. Most 2d based consoles don't have such reference systems and instead are dancing pixels on a flat plane, and some 3d ones have their own quirks like using things for reference points (see some of the GC widescreen stuff from the Wii) but we can skip that one for the moment. However things like the SNES' mode7 graphics and the GBA's similar take on the matter then you do still have points in space and maths done upon them rather than sliding and flipping set size sprites on top of backgrounds.
If you take the "obvious" route of rendering each frame out and doing maths on each of them rather than the more tedious but likely quicker method (and still just as valid) of creating a 3d model and keeping it updated with changes then you will see it nail resources. A modern machine of some potency should be able to handle the former though, and the end result will be nice to look at as a proof of concept. Spend the time to make the latter and it will run on far more modest machines. Not sure where that will end up -- probably not the same sort of demands as the likes of the 2x super sai filters we have seen for years but maybe more in line with those of the more exotic stuff like XBRZ we saw in more recent years.

regnad · May 27, 2019

FAST6191 said:
It depends.

The general idea behind these sorts of mods is 3d is all about manipulating points in space. Being maths then multiplying it by arbitrary numbers, and maybe adding some smoothing, anti aliasing, precision in the "texture", precision in "shadows", an additional subsurf render or something, is trivial. Most 2d based consoles don't have such reference systems and instead are dancing pixels on a flat plane, and some 3d ones have their own quirks like using things for reference points (see some of the GC widescreen stuff from the Wii) but we can skip that one for the moment. However things like the SNES' mode7 graphics and the GBA's similar take on the matter then you do still have points in space and maths done upon them rather than sliding and flipping set size sprites on top of backgrounds.
If you take the "obvious" route of rendering each frame out and doing maths on each of them rather than the more tedious but likely quicker method (and still just as valid) of creating a 3d model and keeping it updated with changes then you will see it nail resources. A modern machine of some potency should be able to handle the former though, and the end result will be nice to look at as a proof of concept. Spend the time to make the latter and it will run on far more modest machines. Not sure where that will end up -- probably not the same sort of demands as the likes of the 2x super sai filters we have seen for years but maybe more in line with those of the more exotic stuff like XBRZ we saw in more recent years.

But wouldn't the same "tricks" used to speed things up yield the same results for both Switch and PC? I guess my point is my PC is more powerful than a switch and still struggles with both this and bsnes-HD

FAST6191 · May 27, 2019

Haven't looked at what bsnes does at this point so will have to skip that for now. As far as the quoted post is concerned it is not as much tricks if you are thinking speedhacks of yesteryear but a fundamentally different approach, or at least one that builds massively off the simpler and slower approach you can knock out as an experiment.
The simple approach takes the data in the emulated system's memory every frame and does what it does to it (presumably rather than looking at it like a jumble of pixels like every other filter it looks at their positions in "space" and does the maths to scale it and smooth things out). As far as a general flow of operations is concerned that is nothing major. Doing it every frame (60 of them a second remember, though some drop down to 30) is however quite demanding, especially if you also have to do the rest of the stuff that the emulated system does.
Building a model and kicking that to a graphics card, and then sending updates every frame (or every time it is changed, possibly also detecting when the whole "model" is changed), and allowing it to do anti aliasing and all that stuff they are designed for takes far more code and fiddling to accomplish but will yield the same results for far less demand on a CPU.

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