The 3D models suddenly look just as hand-painted as the backgrounds and blend together perfectly. I've included a video I threw together quickly in order to explain a few key settings, but the gist of it is that you can now render the 3D models at whatever super high resolution you want and then downsample them back to the original PSX resolution. Well, what if I told you that there is a much better way to render PS1 games on modern hardware? Enter RetroArch with the Bettle PSX HW Core. Running these games at a higher resolution generally results in a severe mis-match between the soft hand-drawn backgrounds and the razor sharp 3D models that don't even look very good to begin with. Anyone who has delved into tinker with emulation has quickly ran into an issue, however: many old PS1 games look utterly awful when running on higher resolutions! Specifically, most classic Square RPGs including the Final Fantasy games have pre-rendered 2D backgrounds with 3D models on top. We've all seen those crazy Dolphin/Cemu screenshots running Nintendo games with great art direction even at 8K internal resolution with ridiculous image quality.
