Thread:Ultrasonic9000/@comment-27441478-20161204050217/@comment-27441478-20161220115246

Ultrasonic9000 wrote:

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. Some images in regards to a particular subject may be too small for users to easily see, or to even realise what they are looking at. Of course the simple answer would be to have the image cropped and then manually stretched/expanded to make it larger and thus more easy to see. Problem is, this causes image tearing, as the image (for example screenshots from a SegaGenesis in its original format) may not contain enough pixels to fill in the gaps when it is expanded without external support. And when it does, it becomes even MORE pixelated and worse than what it originally was (try this by expanding an image size on Microsoft Paint; its not pretty).

The Resolution upscaling provided by both my monitor and the emulator corrects this by adding more pixels to fill in 'the gaps' left by the stretched pixels in order preserve the format of the image when it is stretched to as close to the original resolution as it can without tearing the image.