@id0ntkn0w7: There's already a PC-native 007 GoldenEye, similar in nature to the PC-native reverse-engineered Ocarina of Time you may have heard about. You can play them on Ship of Harkinian, on PC, for free. They both have native mouse support and no FPS cap.
@vatususreturns: I see what you're saying, but I would just like to point out that,
The way it was originally released ≠ The way the developers wanted the game to be experienced
My #1 and #2 games of all time are Majora's Mask and Deus Ex. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that if the developers of those games could, in the year 2000, have people play their games in 4K, they would have jumped on it.
Adapting to limitations is not the same as liking them.
@Frosal: Excuse me while I go on another rant about how amazing emulation is:
While emulation may necessarily be more laggy than a native PC game on the same PC, there's no reason why emulated input through a modern PC couldn't be faster than input of an old game on an old console in 2022. Some emulators can even be tweaked to keep/remove the appearance of the original's input delay. In my personal experience, on modern emulators, there's no perceptible difference. I'm a big DMC fan, and in DMC3 —in which input lag is a huge deal— emulated PS2 input lag felt to me the same as native PS2 lag, and way worse than in the native PC port. To note, for many, many games, the console wasn't always able to keep the FPS solid at the cap, particularly with 3D games. Emulators on modern PCs are much better at that, and getting more efficient every year, as are the PCs themselves. That doesn't just improve smoothness of image, but also consistency of response times. Also some emulators can patch games to change their FPS cap, making them even more responsive, as responsiveness goes hand-in-hand with FPS.
Second, OLED panels' motion clarity is absolutely comparable to CRTs. OLED has fantastic motion clarity. I've heard some people say otherwise and while looking at my OLED, I just can't fathom what they're talking about. There are scientific data on that. They simply don't ghost. Plus the vibrance and brightness is just a thousand times better than a CRT. It's night-and-day better. But again, if you don't like that, you can desaturate and fuzz to your heart's content. The only way you can argue that the original is more beautiful, is if your definition of “beautiful” is, “looked like the original”. The industry has been improving image quality the past 30 years, in the direction of what most people deem more beautiful. If people thought fuzzy and grey was more beautiful, the industry would be doing that. To people who think the experience on their OLED TV is terrible, keep in mind that an OLED TV is always going to have a way, way worse response time than an OLED monitor. That's not the same thing as Hz or motion clarity.
Another advantage, as was mentioned above, is that modern monitors usually refresh at ≥120Hz, even if the game is 30fps. This makes it much easier on the eyes, and harder to get a headache. CRT screens are literally blasting you with electrons the whole time too.
Another advantage is that from the 2D era especially, there are desktop tools for hacking the ROMs how you like them. You can just hack in exclusively bug fixes and optimisations, or you can pack them full of vanilla-respecting QoL improvements like I recently did with A Link to the Past. It's a way less tedious game in 2022 with those alterations. A lot of 2D side-scrollers from the SNES era like Mario and Metroid games, can be played in 16:9 now, which is colossal QoL difference as well as making them scale better.
You can also quicksave in any game at any time with save states, if you want to. And any regular save, or save state, can be backed up automatically to the cloud, in multiplace places even, so your game data will never get corrupted, or a single memory card lost or damaged.
Also you can play any game you want with any controller you want. You have some options with the original consoles, but it's still a tiny fraction of controllers that are compatible with the PC. I love N64 games but hate the controller, for example. You can even map quicksave (or anything) right onto the controller since most modern controllers have more buttons than old games need. This also means you can do turbo, macro, or any number of combinations. I personally hate button mashing in any game, for example.
Also with emulation, you can take any game that wasn't portable before, and take it with you anywhere. A simple Raspberry Pi is powerful enough for every 2D game ever made, but if you want the screen too, a Steam Deck is a fantastic choice.
Couple all that with what I mentioned before about having to keep piles of old tech lying around, and all the cables and/or their adapters, and all the physical games, all of which need to be stored and maintained and/or repaired at additional cost (or even worse, having to try and buy a good CRT in 2022 at a reasonable price), and how insanely large and heavy CRT tech is, and emulation is imho clearly the superior option.
I'm sure there's more advantages, but that's all for now.
Only if you really need to know that it's the original for some reason. Otherwise emulation is better in every way. Smoother, more beautiful, and more responsive, at higher resolutions.
Or, you can make it look exactly as fuzzy and warped as the original. Without needing to find space for, and maintain, all your ancient tech.
I'm glad I'm not one of those people who needs authentic or nothing at all. What a hassle.
It's a very specific and plausible accusation. And it's such a viciously intelligent and brilliant game that for me personally I lean towards believing devs over investors. Extremely creatively talented people in my experience are more trustworthy. Investors... well... not so much.
If all this is in the game I'll eat my own head. When a person in China promises me something amazing-looking, and I don't personally know that individual, I just assume I'm being misled. In my 12 years in China, I've only been wrong twice.
Like many kinds of art, when a game is well-executed and unique, it will only be more appreciated with time. After Kojima retires, who is going to bring us unique AAA games?
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