Widescreen hack

[turrican3]

Could it be possible to make widescreen hack like does dolphin for gamecube or wii games ???
not an upscaling but really like if the game was done in 16/9 ???
Is it doable with whdload ??? or winuae ??? We could see a larger background, should be incredible with Z-out and games like that or platformers.
I suppose that this is impossible, but who knows sometime there is magic tricks.
resident evil 4 with 16/9 hack [ Show youtube player ]
without 16/9 hack [ Show youtube player ]

[ransom1122]

Ps2 has a software hack to make games 16:9. When I make custom ps2 packages for my ps3 I sometimes include the 16:9 hack.

[ajk]

You would have to re-engineer everything on a game-by-game basis. Not something that could be an option in WHDLoad or WinUAE.

[Mrs Beanbag]

a lot of games designed for 200-line NTSC screen size are already in 16:10 ratio which is close enough

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by Mrs Beanbag

a lot of games designed for 200-line NTSC screen size are already in 16:10 ratio which is close enough

320x200 is 16:10, didn't think about it !

For full screen 16x9 games, choose your native monitor res in "display" settings. (make sure full screen is ticked).
Choose "Automatic Scaling" in filter settings.
Pick "Autoscale Aspect" and and "Keep Aspect Ratio", save config and that's it.

BTW, I could only get it to work in WinUAE v2.8.1

Attached a couple of new configs. They should work on any WinUAE version.

[demolition]

Originally Posted by turrican3

320x200 is 16:10, didn't think about it !

Only if pixels are square which they are not in PAL and NTSC.

According to this, PAL uses a 1.09 ratio while NTSC uses 0.91 ratio.
This means that PAL 320x256 corresponds to a 1:0.734 ratio (or 16:11.7) while NTSC 320x200 is 1:0.687 (or 16:11).

Thus, the physical ratio is not very different between PAL and NTSC CRT televisions.

[mark_k]

You misunderstood that page I think. Those aspect ratios are for the D1/DV NTSC and PAL specifications, which use a pixel sampling frequency of 13.5MHz. The Amiga's pixel clock is different.

NTSC Amigas have a pixel clock of 315/44 MHz (for low res), leading to a pixel aspect ratio (low res, or high-res laced) of 6:7, approx 0.857.

PAL Amigas have a pixel clock of 7.093790 MHz, leading to a pixel aspect ratio of 737500:709379, approx 1.040.

[Mrs Beanbag]

yeah, i've read things saying you should compensate for the non-square pixels when drawing graphics, but like anybody ever did. Try drawing a circle in Deluxe Paint for instance, it doesn't take it into account. Likewise if any object ever rotates 90 degrees.

Also games made in Europe often fit on an NTSC screen anyway, even though they were designed on PAL monitors.

[Leffmann]

Deluxe Paint will take it into account if you un-check "Be Square", but I think it makes more sense to assume square pixels anyway.

It's funny how most if not all games on f.ex. NES, Master System, and Super Nintendo assume square pixels, and so their graphics look nice and square on NTSC, but wide and flattened on our PAL TV-sets. Luckily, most PAL TV-sets can switch to NTSC, to get the games to look right when using these consoles.