--- title: I used Lossless Scaling on retro emulators, and it fixed... description: Lossless Scaling, a $7 app that offers resolution upscaling and frame generation (LSFG), works surprisingly well with retro game emulators. Games like Ocarina... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-lossless-scaling-on-retro-emulators-and-it-fixed-the-one-thing-emulation-couldn-t-solve-aopotlbu6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I used Lossless Scaling on retro emulators, and it fixed the one thing emulation couldn't solve | daily.dev og:description: Lossless Scaling, a $7 app that offers resolution upscaling and frame generation (LSFG), works surprisingly well with retro game emulators. Games like Ocarina... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-used-lossless-scaling-on-retro-emulators-and-it-fixed-the-one-thing-emulation-couldn-t-solve-aopotlbu6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aoPotLBu6.png og:image:alt: I used Lossless Scaling on retro emulators, and it fixed the one thing emulation couldn't solve og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I used Lossless Scaling on retro emulators, and it fixed the one thing emulation couldn't solve **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Lossless Scaling, a $7 app that offers resolution upscaling and frame generation (LSFG), works surprisingly well with retro game emulators. Games like Ocarina of Time (capped at 20FPS on N64) and Super Mario Sunshine (30FPS on GameCube) feel noticeably smoother when LSFG is applied. Since Lossless Scaling doesn't require deep software integration, it works with any emulator out of the box. Caveats include HUD artifact issues at higher multipliers (tunable via Flow Scale), the app not detecting the original game framerate, and resolution upscaling being less useful than the emulator's own internal resolution settings. Battery impact is lighter than native high-framerate rendering. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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