Emulator Issues #9025
closedExtend the current widescreen hack to a "fill screen hack" which will expand image output to fill black zones caused by aspect ratio fix
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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