So firstly bear in mind that the pics you rip from Animal Crossing are tiny in size, I have like 50 pics and I checked, on the SD Card this is less than 8 mbs. So the pics are poor quality to begin with.
Anyhow, I play Wii on different TVs depending on where I am and I noticed that when you capture AC screens, it takes the pic according to the TV you are using, ratio, size, quality, HD or SD.
SDTV
HDTV
Notice what HDTV does to the picture? Look at the bird Pave, jaggy, bitty, dull, stretched. Just all around, it adds a significant nastiness. Pay attention to the text in particular, a big giveaway. I've often seen screens of Wii games and funnily enough the good screens are how it looks on an an SDTV and frequently, whoever it is captures bad screens and that is how the game looks on an HDTV. Spooky.
Look at the HUD, the writing and where the money is written in the top right hand corner. See the jaggies on the diving mask or around all the items. Ugh
This pic is awful, look at the bird(s) faces. Look at the text! The f-ing text is jaggy!
If you dont play on an SDTV you might even be left with the impression that the system was weaker than GC. What a terrible situation. Until someone gets off their ass and makes a decent mass market external upscaler, as far as I can see the only option is to get one of these fancy Toshiba Regza ZR Tvs, which supposedly upscales any signal coming into it with Resolution + technology.
I have the DVD player with the same tech and it seems to work on DVDs at least.
If you want to do proper comparisons, you need to get identical shots on both the SD and HDTV. Not entirely different pictures with entirely different styles of writing. You can't compare a back button to story text.
Raven check the top SDTV pic, the text "Back" in the bottom right hand corner. Then check any kind of text or numerals on all the other pictures. While the words on the SDTV pic are completely clear and smooth, in all the other pics the text is jagged and pixellated. It's easier to make out on the text, but this is happening across the whole screen
AC is like a toony cel shaded game so it actually shows up less so with an art style like this. If I could snap some Endless Ocean pics I could cry. It ruins the immersion when an HDTV adds jagged lines to your air tank
LOL Yarcofin, you've set a challenge, I will see what I can do.
Yark-o-fin
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Yar-coffin
And I really didn't care that much, but okay