Does the emulator use a collection of "per game" hacks?
There is no other way to tell that certain blocks should be 1 tile wide, while others should be 4 tiles wide, or that the map should be flat (Zelda) or horizontal (SMB1), etc.
I feel like text and status bars should not be "3D-"dified.
The Contra clip made me think, it looks pretty neat but it also hurts the eye (the close-up of the character). I feel like it could look better if instead of smoothening existing game sprites out, you replace them with more detailed sprites (perhaps even polygon models, depending how far this emulator is going to progress). This would then be excused as a "per game" hack.
Here poor man's job at showing what I'm envisioning.
I would like to play the game on the right.
Keep up the good work!
My suggestions might very well make it look worse in practice, though...
