Saturday, May 1, 2010

Resolution comparison of Nintendo sprite-based gaming systems

nes 256 x 224
gba 240 × 160
nds 256 x 192

The SNES has a bunch of resolution modes, but it sounds like the most common one matches the NES.

One upshot of this is that no hand-held unit can perfectly simulate the old (S)NES games - some of the pixels must be cropped or scaled. But the NDS isn't far off. The PSP is  480 x 272, so a non-Nintendo portable gaming system would actually be the best for emulating classic Nintendo games (slightly ironic, eh?)
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