upscaling

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.

Every PC handheld runs AMD or Intel graphics, which means DLSS is off the table forever. Here is what FSR and XeSS actually do for you, and which settings are worth changing.

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.