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Message: [QUOTE="Yankee, post: 4545, member: 571"] I will never go back to un-shadered emulation on LCDs. Those early filters are gross and look like you smeared Vaseline on your screen so I never used them, but once I was properly introduced to CRT shaders and color correction it changed my perception forever. You were [B]absolutely not meant to see raw pixel[/B]. The artists knew this when they were drawing the sprites and intentionally developed techniques for shading and lighting and color combining that take advantage of the medium to display their art. This is how they intended you to see it. This is the best you would have gotten at the time. I can not understand how anyone can legitimately think otherwise. They did not want you to see the dithering and dots as if you were playing the game in MS Paint. They want you to see the smooth gradients, the transparency effects, and the glow on the highlights from the phosphors. LCDs with fixed pixel displays were not the planned medium. How a game looks on those is [I]unintentional[/I], not "true". [ATTACH type="full" alt="earthworm-pixel-crt.jpg"]1585[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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