best-games

The Dreamcast was built around bold, clean art that scales up almost perfectly. Here are the games that look genuinely reborn at 4x, and the handful that do not.

The GameCube is the single best upscaling target in emulation. Clean geometry, no dithering tricks, and Dolphin's mature texture packs. Here is what to revisit first.

N64 upscaling is the most misunderstood in emulation. Removing the console's blur reveals detail and also reveals why the blur was there. Plus: for three big titles, don't emulate at all.

The PS1 is the trickiest upscaling target in emulation. One setting matters more than resolution, and a large part of the library looks worse sharpened. Here is the honest map.

Raise PCSX2's internal resolution and some PS2 games look like remasters. Others fall apart. Here is which is which, and the settings that decide it.

No system gains more from upscaling than the PSP. Games built for a 480x272 screen render at 5x on hardware that barely notices. Here is what to load first.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 games that benefit most from emulator framerate and resolution patches, which emulator to use, and the hardware you need to run them.

Each Evercade cartridge bundles several licensed classics. Here are the best cartridges to start with, from arcade powerhouses to deep console sets.