Article: RetroArch Multi-System Emulator v0.9.8.3 Released

[underball]

i just had an idea that could be cool but since i'm not very technical, i could see it not being possible. anyways, adding widescreen to the emulators kind of like how people did it for ps2 games. i used to use it on an n64 emulator a while back to some success; idk if it was the emu or the games that sometimes wouldn't like it.

anyways, i think it'd make things pretty nice and i don't think it'd be too stressful on the system to make it emulate that much more of the screen.

The only reason this was possible on the PS2 and N64 emus is because the widescreen aspect ratio coding already existed in the games themselves, because they were being coded after Widescreen TVs hit the market. (It wasn't until DVD became the home video standard that 720x480 became the default NTSC aspect ratio.)

The older game systems never had those resolutions available to them, so it doesn't exist in the game code. You would need to reprogram the whole game in order to do this.

[JOshISPoser]

damn...is that why some n64 games wouldn't work when it tried to make them widescreen?

what about psx games? some of them had a widescreen option. idk...i just thought maybe it would be possible to have it emulate more edges of the screen especially for like sonic and rpg's where the screen just seems to scroll or other games where enemies are placed in a certain spot.