Yes, those smoothing screen filters in SEGA’s recently announced Mega Drive Collection for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are a huge turn off for some. Thankfully, that artificial upscaling technique can be enabled or disabled at will, according to SEGA UK spokesperson Martin Snelling:

I’ve had confirmation that the filter can indeed be switched off.

To top it all off, games in the compilation automatically display at whatever aspect ratio your console is set at. In 16:9 mode, no black bars will be shown, with the full width and height of the screen being taken advantage of. Retro fans can now breathe a sigh of relief.

Mega Drive Collection filter can be turned off, say Sega [RPGSite]

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