Non-standard aspect ratios

[amoeba]

Currently the full-screen aspect ratio selection is simple: you select the aspect ratio of your screen and it displays the picture correctly.

Unfortunately the list of aspect ratios seems to be fixed, and is a bit limited. For example, the computer I use for pSX at the moment is a netbook with a 1024x600 screen. That's not any of the available options, so things are slightly the wrong shape.

It's nearly 16:9, so it's really not a big deal -- my games still look great. But it would be nice to have a "custom" option so people in my situation can specify a perfect ratio. Or even to detect the ratio automatically based on the screen resolution.

[Heihachi_73]

AFAIK pSX just dumps the game's output to 640x480 when using full screen mode, regardless of the actual monitor being used. Since the highest resolution a PSX game can use is in fact 640x480 (or 640x512 for PAL games), but rarely used outside of the BIOS, I can only assume pSX uses the most compatible screen size out there simply for ease of use. I don't think there was any provision of using multiple resolutions with pSX, but I could be wrong.

Of course, if you're looking for a letterboxed 4:3 effect, I'm not sure how it can be done outside of TVs. I'm also not sure on how the very few widescreen PSX games actually look in pSX, as I don't own any games with this option (the PS2 version of GTA3 being my oldest widescreen-enabled game).

1024x600 is a strange resolution, sits right in between 16:9 and 16:10. I'd suggest just using one of those for now.

[Ultima]

Jun 25, 2009 14:30:25 GMT -5 Heihachi_73 said:

AFAIK pSX just dumps the game's output to 640x480 when using full screen mode, regardless of the actual monitor being used.

pSX uses the full screen resolution specified in the options...

Of course, if you're looking for a letterboxed 4:3 effect, I'm not sure how it can be done outside of TVs.

That's... what the aspect ratio correction option does. You select your monitor's aspect ratio, and pSX corrects the stretching to take the monitor's aspect ratio into account.