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Post by michiyoyoshiku on Nov 6, 2006 19:13:28 GMT -5
Ok So I just got an HDTV and set my XBOX to Wide screen.
I gotta say this now. Sonic and Mega man look WEIRD in Widescreen. REALLY REALLY Weird
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Post by kyouki on Nov 6, 2006 20:51:17 GMT -5
This is a dumb answer, but every game that doesn't support widescreen looks weird in widescreen.  For me it's not worth distorting the image so much... I'll just deal with giant black borders on the sides. Does your TV have that feature that keeps the center of the screen unstretched, but stretches the sides out to fill the screen? I don't know if it's better or worse than just stretching the whole screen... makes the sides all swimmy.  |
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Post by vysethebold on Nov 6, 2006 21:46:04 GMT -5
Yeah, games that weren't made to play in widescreen, such as classic games that were made to be played on a standard screen, are going to look weird. Just put them back in their original aspect ratio and put up with the black bars. It's no different than watching a widescreen movie on a standard TV.
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Post by michiyoyoshiku on Nov 7, 2006 0:07:08 GMT -5
yeah weird thing is sonic didn't look horrible just wierd, Mega Man 2 looks like ass.
I'm not sure if it's my tv settings or my XBOX setting. I have my XBOX set to widescreen.
KOF didn't look odd in wide screen but on and HDTV the sprites in 2003 look like ass, they looked fine in Neowave. Shodown V looks fine.
Mega man was the worst though.
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Post by The bag of sand on Nov 7, 2006 0:21:54 GMT -5
I wish I could play Genesiss on my big screen, but IDK how i tryed for almost 3 hours and ended up giving up
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Post by vysethebold on Nov 7, 2006 1:38:41 GMT -5
I was thinking about getting a Samsung HDTV tube (I don't really care about the weight and I would be able to use light guns on it) but unfortunately I can never find any HDTV tubes that have VGA input. Arghhhh!!!!! I heard that Plasma's have burn-in for games so I don't really see the point there. So I guess I'd get an LCD HDTV. I saw one from Westinghouse that had a ton of inputs. What do you guys have/ suggest?
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Post by Weasel on Nov 7, 2006 4:52:42 GMT -5
My Samsung LCD has a VGA input on it (along with two component, two composite, an S-Video, an RF, and an HDMI jack). Pretty cheap, too, at around $875.
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Post by YourAverageJoe on Nov 7, 2006 7:47:13 GMT -5
I've got a regular tube, it works for me and I couldn't imagine getting an LCD with the prices being as high as tripling if I switched to LCD
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Post by michiyoyoshiku on Nov 7, 2006 11:01:26 GMT -5
I was thinking about getting a Samsung HDTV tube (I don't really care about the weight and I would be able to use light guns on it) but unfortunately I can never find any HDTV tubes that have VGA input. Arghhhh!!!!! I heard that Plasma's have burn-in for games so I don't really see the point there. So I guess I'd get an LCD HDTV. I saw one from Westinghouse that had a ton of inputs. What do you guys have/ suggest? STAY AWAY from Samsungs Get the LG I got www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7685089&st=LG+30FS4D&type=product&id=1134703573897Samsung TV suffer from Wavy images and blurs The LGs are almost indestinguishable from a plasma in image quality and it has all the inputs you'll ever need It does have some thing in the back that looks like a monitor out as well Guilty Gear is a thing of Beauty on that TV |
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Post by vysethebold on Nov 7, 2006 16:39:16 GMT -5
I hate that so many of these LCD HDTV monitors are lacking RF connections. Why should I have to pay more for a set-top box to just watch regular cable?
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Post by kyouki on Nov 7, 2006 18:12:54 GMT -5
RF on an LCD!  It would look absolutely awful! Component 480p looks bad enough... All the cable companies around here converted to digital quite a while ago so you are forced to use one of their boxes to get anything beyond the first few channels. |
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Post by vysethebold on Nov 7, 2006 18:30:03 GMT -5
Well in a college dorm you have few alternatives to RF cable.
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Post by michiyoyoshiku on Nov 7, 2006 23:05:23 GMT -5
I was shocked..........Ikaruga actually looked OK on my TV didn't streach the image too much so it looked just fine. This was the Cube Version BTW
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Post by vysethebold on Nov 8, 2006 12:24:21 GMT -5
Well considering that Ikaruga is a vertical shooter, the widescreen stretch won't affect it much. Try the different display modes, too. If your TV is made to hang vertically, there is an option for Ikaruga to be played sideways so you can have the full vertical widescreen TATE ratio in the position it was originally presented in the arcade. It's sweet!
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Post by michiyoyoshiku on Nov 8, 2006 13:02:35 GMT -5
I'd love to do that but it's a tube TV also, it'd fall if it was turned sideways.
I'd love to get my hands on a PCB of the first 2 Darius Games.....those've gotta look sweet on an HDTV
So far the only game that looks horrid on my TV is the Mega man Aniversery collection. I just can't get it to look right.
KOF MI looked a little strange too.
KOF 2003 looks like it supports widescreen mode BUT the sprites look like ass. Not so in Neowave
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It would look absolutely awful!