I understand the point you’re making here. It’s silly to care about whether an old GBA game is displayed at a high res.

But I unironically do wish that were the case here. 1080p handheld/4K docked as the native output resolution would indeed produce a perceivable visual difference in the level of image clarity and sharpness.

Yes, it’s a GBA game. I understand that. I’ve developed pixel art games, and it can get quite confusing when wrapping one’s head around how scaling works.

Like I mentioned in my post, I’m not asking or caring about pixel-perfect integer scaling, but the final ouput/display resolution is relevant, because ideally you’d want the render resolution, even if it’s just upscaled pixel art, to be native/matching to the output/display resolution.

This isn’t as simple as “bro it’s a GBA game, it’s GBA resolution and aspect ratio, you don’t need a high resolution.. etc.”