Bilinear Hardware filtering?

[Jipcy]

This is virtually the ONLY thing Snes9x has over ZSNES.

I really hope when you say that, that you only mean the latest official Win port release of Snes9x.

The in-development Snes9x code is, apparently, amazing. Or something. I don't know the details. But I do know that anomie knows more about the SNES then probably anybody else out there.

[byuu]

This is virtually the ONLY thing Snes9x has over ZSNES.

If any of you saying this knew what they were talking about, you'd be well aware that SNES9x is quite a bit more accurate than ZSNES is. FF5 title screen, Madara 2 intro, Earthworm Jim 2 audio, SimEarth worldmap, SNES Test Program - electronics test, PPU1/2 open bus support (if imperfect, missing $213f PPU2 open bus support), OAM interlace support, near perfect OAM size emulation, proper Mode7 EXTBG support, Mode7 direct color support, pseudo-hires emulation, Mode0-4+7 interlace support, the SPC700 emulation actually counts opcode cycles, DRAM refresh emulation, fully portable, non-x86 dependant source code which is easier to maintain, and this is all just off of the top of my head. I won't even discuss the unreleased v1.44 branches' new features.

But yeah, a fake trick involving extra precision with Mode7 calculations is the only thing it has over ZSNES.

[grinvader]

You should be aware of that by now, byuu... It's all about the graphic bling-bling. ;)

[byuu]

I like to fool myself into believing that my 700+ posts have done something to spread awareness of the first and most important goal of emulation: emulating the original hardware, but I guess I have failed miserably :(

[funkyass]

I like to fool myself into believing that my 700+ posts have done something to spread awareness of the first and most important goal of emulation: emulating the original hardware, but I guess I have failed miserably

The failure is on the other side of the internet my friend.

[Deathlike2]

This is virtually the ONLY thing Snes9x has over ZSNES.

I really hope when you say that, that you only mean the latest official Win port release of Snes9x.

The in-development Snes9x code is, apparently, amazing. Or something. I don't know the details. But I do know that anomie knows more about the SNES then probably anybody else out there.

I should've specified that the bilinear Mode 7 feature is the ONLY enhanced graphical feature that Snes9x has over ZSNES. However, Snes9x does some emulation related stuff correctly that ZSNES doesn't currently do. I was only aware of better Mode 7 support... Yes, I do mean the latest official version of Snes9x.

As to the next version of Snes9x, I'm only aware of one particular aspect that Nach informed me of.. which was very disappointing. However I do think someone will step up and tackle said problem...

[Deathlike2]

I like to fool myself into believing that my 700+ posts have done something to spread awareness of the first and most important goal of emulation: emulating the original hardware, but I guess I have failed miserably

I'm sure someone has already requested HQx filter support in Snes9x, instead requesting a fix for some really annoying (palette/color/overlay?) bug in the FF3 battle screens.. but it's ok. There will probably be another 24-bit sound request just for kicks.. It is somewhat sad that people want more features over emulation improvements... funkyass has it right though.

[Deathlike2]

Minor belated updates to this:

1) Snes9x doesn't have bilinear filtering for Mode 7 (since 1.50) for accuracy reasons.

2) The Bilinear filtering option while using an OpenGL mode in the SDL port does do hardware accelerated filtering ONLY IF you are not using MESA (or whatever software rendering). You will have to restart ZSNES or reselect your video mode to get the bilinear filtering when you select that option (I haven't figured out how to update the screen with bilinear enabled/disabled when toggled.)

3) Non D modes do not support hires. See Seiken Densetsu 3 while using a non-D mode.