Thread:Ultrasonic9000/@comment-27441478-20161204050217/@comment-4220590-20161218120336

NotLessOrEqual wrote: US9000, another thing of note for any screen shot of game-play imagery which is not official art is not exactly in its true format either.

For example, the highest the original Sega Genesis can go is 320x224 which is so low to the point you cant really see anything. Since there is no other way of capturing clear images other than via emulators and not using a crude iPhone camera against the TV screen, most of the game's original pixel format is loss because even at default settings, the computer has not choice but to upscale it for the user to ACTUALLY SEE SOMETHING, otherwise it would be a tiny square on the bottom-right hand of the screen. This is because almost all monitors of this day and age are contains 8 times or more pixels.

For example this  from the green hill zone page has no forced-user enhancement on it, but even without it, the capturer's PC has no choice but to upscale it anyway to let users see it. I am not sure what that person's resolution on the emulator was when he captured it, but if it was my common 1920x1080p, then the image itself should not be bigger than thumb, because when ratio is compared between the original console and the desktop, that's unfortunately how it is.

e.i If we are going with it your way, then we might as well delete 85% of image art and/or screenshots since most of them don't exactly fit your criteria anyway, at least not to the perfection you seek.

However, newer titles such as on Nintendo Wii U or XBOX 360 needs no enhancement because their resolution and quality is high enough for most PC-Native monitors to see it properly without any Resolution upscaling. I think there is a misunderstanding going on here, so let me elaborate. I only disagree with images depicting sprites in gameplay with smooth lines (as those NotLessOrEqual tends to upload) because that is not how they are meant to look like and are unofficial formats. If the pixel proportions are preserved, then I believe there is nothing to be said against upscaled images, In short, I do not think small images-turned-large are violating anything and should be deleted as long since their pixel formats are preserved.