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Can you post a screenshot of what it looks like by default and a screenshot of how it's supposed to look?

Oh, and I almost forgot... Does it work properly if the aspect ratio setting in the Wii tab of the general config is set to 4:3?

Here's a shot of the improper AR...

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=File:SF_II%27_AR_Issue.png

If scaled appropriately the black bars on either side should be half as wide.

kolano wrote:

Here's a shot of the improper AR...
(Hrm, seems image I'm missing somethign on how image embeds work,)
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=File:SF_II%27_AR_Issue.png

If scaled appropriately the black bars on either side should be half as wide.

In that screenshot, It's hard to tell where the black bars end and dolphin's own padding on the window begins.

Anyway, it sounds like the game is ignoring the console's 4:3 flag and always rendering 16:9. Could someone test this on a real wii. If this is the case, the solution is to force the ini files for those particular games to Widescreen = True, which will override the Widescreen = False in P.ini

Yeah, that's the output in 5.0. It's expanded in size in the current release, but is similarly scaled incorrectly.

And yes, per discussion on IRC we set a default setting to not display most VC titles in widescreen, but some apparently to render in 16:9. We either need to account for those titles with individual INI updates, or somehow revise the AR handling to account titles that don't use 3d output (but that's known to be difficult to handle).

Regarding alternate AR settings besides Auto, it seems to depend on the title.

The Genesis titles seem to need AR 16:9 to display correctly, but the Turbographics may need 4:3. Unfortunately I can't confirm the Turbographics title, which is just based on a wiki report.

On the topic of the difficulty of handling AR for virtual console titles:

Street Fighter 2 Special Championship Edition starts out with a viewport of 320 x -228 (approximately standard) and a projection ratio of 1.66 (approximately widescreen). Under the current GameCube automatic aspect ratio detection, that would be detected as an anamorphic widescreen scene.

It then transitions to a constant viewport of 320 x -114 (a weird ratio of 2.8, maybe it's doing something with VideoInferface?) and a projection ratio of 2.8 (again). With the current code, this scene would be ignored (because holy-nonrecognized-aspect-ratios-Batman), and aspect ratio detection would stay in widescreen.

Regardless of whichever aspect ratio it's supposed to be, there isn't a lot of information there for a heuristic to go off of :/

The thing is, I don't see why a game would require Force 16:9. Every other Wii game I know of supports 4:3 output (sometimes letterboxed, but never stretched) if you set the SYSCONF to 4:3. I'd like someone to test the "Require Force 16:9" titles on console.