Sure, technology has advanced significantly since the age of the Super Nintendo, but the truth is, these games still look great. It's less about how much these titles have aged, and more about the way you're experiencing them in 2025. Games from this era simply weren't designed to be played on high-definition displays, whether that's an enormous TV, or your portable Switch. Nintendo's most recent update shows why that is.
Modern TVs are made up of pixels—individual color sources that together can form a picture. CRTs, however, do not have pixels. Instead, CRT displays are made up of horizontal lines, "drawn" one at a time by an internal electron gun firing at the display. (Yes, CRTs are very cool.) The standard allowed for 480 of these lines to be drawn each second. Either half the lines are drawn at a time, alternating between the even-numbered and odd-numbered lines (interlaced video), or half the lines are always blank, while the other half are always active (progressive video).
This is the display standard game developers were working with at the time, and, as such, their artwork was designed with it in mind. When you play a retro, pixel art-style game on a modern TV, especially if that game has been optimized for a modern system like Switch 2, you're able to see each individual pixel in that artwork. It's interesting to see how the art was done, and the game is perfectly playable in this form, but it's often not how the artists originally intended for that art to be seen.
Now, this doesn't mean these SNES games are unplayable without the filter. The games themselves are upgraded to play on modern consoles and displays, are still look good. This isn't like plugging a SNES into your 4K TV using composite cables: I'll take sharp pixel art without the CRT filter on the Switch 2 over that blurry mess any day. If you prefer the sharp look, go for it. But for those of us that want to experience these games closer to how they looked back in the day, the CRT filter is where its at.
How to use the Switch's CRT filter
The CRT filter has also been an option for Nintendo 64 and GameCube games on Switch 2, for subscribers of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion pack.
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