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Emulator Issues #9025

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Extend the current widescreen hack to a "fill screen hack" which will expand image output to fill black zones caused by aspect ratio fix

Added by BFG1992 over 9 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:
Working as intended
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
% Done:

0%

Operating system:
N/A
Issue type:
Bug
Milestone:
Regression:
No
Relates to usability:
No
Relates to performance:
No
Easy:
No
Relates to maintainability:
No
Regression start:
Fixed in:

Description

Game Name?

Any

Game ID? (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab)

Any

MD5 Hash? (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab, MD5 Hash: Compute)

N/A

What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.

You may have noticed that the widescreen hack become affected after aspect ratio fixes were merged, and that many games (including SSBM, LoZ:WW and many others) became pillarboxed with widescreen hack enabled on 16:9 displays. I think that this behavior was not meant, because the main purpose of a widescreen hack is to transform an ordinary 4:3 image into a 16:9 one, to make games more nice-looking on modern widescreen displays. So maybe the current widescreen hack can be extended into some kind of a "fill screen hack", so it will fill any gaps on any display? I mean not only pillarboxing, but also a small letterboxing, which is the case for 5:4 and 16:10 monitors.
What do you think? Is this possible to do?

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Launch any game with non-4:3 or non-16:9 AR. Observe black bars.

Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which versions of Dolphin used to work?

Any from 4.0-7138 to latest.

What are your PC specifications? (CPU, GPU, Operating System, more)

1366x768 display
Intel Core i3-3120M
NVIDIA GeForce GT645M
6 GB of RAM

Actions #1

Updated by phire over 9 years ago

Try enabling both widescreen hack and stretch to window.

Actions #2

Updated by BFG1992 over 9 years ago

No, this option just stretching an image to fill screen, not extending the viewport itself, like the widescreen hack does.

Actions #3

Updated by phire over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Working as intended

No, enable both stretch to window and widescreen hack at the same time and you will get the behavior you want.

Force 16:9 (old behavior): Stretch viewport to exactly 16:9
Force 16:9 (new behavior): Stretch viewport by 33.3% horizontally
Stretch to window: Stretch viewport to window
Widescreen hack: Instead of stretching with the above options, extend the image.

Actions #4

Updated by BFG1992 over 9 years ago

Ah, crap, really.
Figured out my mistake after making some screenshots. Was confused by stretchening interface.
Sorry then and thanks for explanation :)

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