Preferred way to scale pixel art
 

My current favorite religious issue. When you're playing, say, a game in an emulator and you need to scale the low-resolution pixel-art to fill your high-resolution screen, how do you prefer the scaled art to look?

NONE OF THE ABOVE

a svg in inkscape

depends.
for an oldschool game i'd prefer whole increments of the original resolution, to retain the oldschool look and atmosphere. i guess that means "none/blocky" (not the same as nearest).

Shovel Knight was designed to support that.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsD..._Right_Way.php

Blocky, original aspect ratio.

Smoothing can give a new look...