How to make older low-res games look good

Essential Linkage: Covering Aspect Ratios, Scanlines and Modern Displays for old-school gaming bliss.

Assuming you've bought yourself one of those fancy new LCD TV's, cabled it completely using our detailed guide and hooked up your old console (or even emulated it on your PC) - you might notice something is wrong.

The aspect ratio will be all wonky, scanlines will appear completely wrong, and your display won't be able to scale the image without making it fuzzy, but why does this happen and how can it be fixed?

Luckily the answer isn't too hard to find - and it's very detailed too.

Covering the mechanics of older-style CRT monitors, the differences between them and LCD screens, why games were coded to be a larger resolution than arcade screens could handle and a whole lot more.

Fingers crossed that the techniques and solutions found can be worked into emulators or similar, so our childhood loves can be reinvigorated with a whole-new beauty.

Head over to the thread on NFG for a good read, and post about your favourite old-school games below!