Video - [2016-04-29 multithread] Hydro Thunder runs great!

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

DISCLAIMER: It may run great, but it certainly doesn't sound great. You might be wise to turn down or even mute your volume.



Been wanting to record and upload this for a while now and finally got around to doing it.

The following two videos come from the exact same recorded footage, but the first video is at native resolution (well, 400% nearest neighbor) while the second has some super-fancy upscaling (feedback is welcome) that took me a bit longer than 2 seconds per frame to render with GPU acceleration (4 seconds per frame without GPU acceleration).

Native res: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55dtX8XNkyA

Upscaled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01mzOFe_6O0

I give full permission to link and repost this/these video/s anywhere else on the internet without even giving me credit (like on /r/emulation or whatever, I don't care); just make sure you don't claim that you made the video/s yourself.


Oh, and since the forum doesn't show YouTube thumbnails, hare are two screenshots from the video/s of the exact same frame, one at native resolution and the other upscaled:
Native resolution

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Upscaled

upscaled.jpg (994.11 KiB) Viewed 7920 times

[Imgema]

Thanks for posting this.

Native looks great. The upscaled one looks a bit weird, like those eagle/2xsal filters in pixel art 2D games. But it does make the background picture look good.

[MarathonMan]

I'm usually one for pixel-perfect preservation, but I'll admit... that does look pretty good.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

I'm usually one for pixel-perfect preservation, but I'll admit... that does look pretty good.

Implying that the N64 version of Hydro Thunder is pixel-perfect representation of Hydro Thunder anyway.

For reference, the Dreamcast version is much more similar graphically (including rendering resolution) to the original arcade version than the N64 or PS1 version is.