I've never used mGBA on the GameCube, but on the Wii there two different settings for picture quality.
Screen Mode and Filtering. Screen Mode can be pixel-perfect, in which the game is shown with the correct aspect ratio (meaning the screen has black borders around the picture) or stretched, which as the name says, it stretches the GBA's output to the entire screen.
Pixel-perfect obviously looks better, stretched makes pixels not have the same size and look bad, but that's why the second setting exist. Filtering has 3 settings. Pixelated is making no changes, Bilinear (smooth) is probably what you're talking about as it makes the picture blurry, but then endrift also added Bilinear (pixelated).
For a pixel-perfect Screen Mode, the Pixelated Filter is the one to get. For Stretched, Bilinear (pixelated) is the one you want, and it looks a heck of a lot better than the normal Bilinear, to the point I'd love to see it added to other Wii emulators.
But again, I do not know if these settings exist on the GC version, as the only one I use is the Wii one.
Screen Mode and Filtering. Screen Mode can be pixel-perfect, in which the game is shown with the correct aspect ratio (meaning the screen has black borders around the picture) or stretched, which as the name says, it stretches the GBA's output to the entire screen.
Pixel-perfect obviously looks better, stretched makes pixels not have the same size and look bad, but that's why the second setting exist. Filtering has 3 settings. Pixelated is making no changes, Bilinear (smooth) is probably what you're talking about as it makes the picture blurry, but then endrift also added Bilinear (pixelated).
For a pixel-perfect Screen Mode, the Pixelated Filter is the one to get. For Stretched, Bilinear (pixelated) is the one you want, and it looks a heck of a lot better than the normal Bilinear, to the point I'd love to see it added to other Wii emulators.
But again, I do not know if these settings exist on the GC version, as the only one I use is the Wii one.