This may sound like a lot of tedious Photoshop work, but any competent programmer can automate it with a script that an artist can operate with one button. The key is you need to take your tiles and put them in a natural mockup image with their true neighbor tiles, scale that as a finished image, extract tiles from that finished image, and piece them back into the compacted format so that the edges line up properly. It looks like Square used something like the HQ 2x filter, which will be close enough for this example.Īnd when a tilesheet is all compacted like this, tiles inevitably get placed next to ones that they would never border in the actual game, yet those false neighbors will influence how the upscaled tile gets drawn.

Probably not exactly like the one Square used in this remake, but surely they had something similar. Once again, it looks like Square has been applying upscalers to the tile sheets themselves rather than the final output. I cant even run the games raw pixel output through a 3rd-party visual tool to do custom post processing, because the output is corrupted with these artifacts.

Still, I personally think that picking one filter, and applying it to the entire screen, looks better than haphazardly applying different styles to different elements within the same scene. Heres a wider shot at 2:1 pixel scale, which depending on your device is probably a bit closer to how it appeared on an old 13 TV from 10 feet away. Granted, blown up on a huge monitor this doesnt look exactly fantastic - pixels really werent designed to be viewed at this scale. Its not a 1:1 comparison because the color model is slightly different, the birds and clouds are in a slightly different place, but you get the idea. To top it off, scaling is inconsistently applied at a non 1:1 ratio - at 1080p resolution, the boat features pixels variably scaled at 7x5, 6x5, and 5x5. Its a matter of subjective taste whether you prefer 1:1 upscaled blocky pixels or whether you prefer the classic look with simulated scanlines, CRT color bleed, and even screen curvature.īut we can leave that aside because instead of opting for either of these techniques (or even better: letting the user choose), theyve again opted for the worst of both worlds.Īnd even though this is a cropped detail shot, this is not shrunk or scaled, these are the exact pixels on your screen. Its entirely the fault of whoever directed these most recent changes, which follow a clear pattern set by the FFV and FFVI HD remakes also released on Steam. Chrono Trigger Resurrection Rom Series Of Updatesīut here are a few comparisons of the iPhone CT and the new multi-platform CT.

Chrono resurrection Rom