How do I change MAME's aspect ratio for MK3?

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TheManuel:
Well, that's where I'm leading to. I know monitors of the day were 4:3 but I wonder which games were really meant to be a bit stretched. It sounds like this is an exercise in memory, more than anything. It's probably a dead end street.

Haze:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 14, 2013, 12:45:20 am ---Well like I said though, I rarely saw one in 4:3, even on crt monitors. Sure now I do, but back when they were new in the arcade... I never saw one of the cps2 fighters stretched to 4:3.

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what kind of crazy bootleg establishments were you going to then ?!

the very fact that SF3 II has a widescreen *option* should prove that the regular displays of CPS titles (1,2,3) are meant for 4:3 displays.

the further fact that they didn't even bother to keep the option around for SF3 III tells you how popular non 4:3 displays were, and how much they considered it worth the extra development work / asset creation.

Howard_Casto:
Power Play, which was a large arcade chain (the last one that I'm aware of actually). Their games were always new and in perfect working order.

How did sf3 get into the argument? I said mid-90's fighters and specifically mentioned cps2 games.

*edit*
Just to be clear, we aren't talking about widescreen monitors... we are talking about the adjustments, they were almost always 4:3 monitors... the image is just rarely stretched to screen.

Haze:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 14, 2013, 06:37:01 pm ---Power Play, which was a large arcade chain (the last one that I'm aware of actually). Their games were always new and in perfect working order.

How did sf3 get into the argument? I said mid-90's fighters and specifically mentioned cps2 games.

*edit*
Just to be clear, we aren't talking about widescreen monitors... we are talking about the adjustments, they were almost always 4:3 monitors... the image is just rarely stretched to screen.

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I'm guessing you just had some tech guys there who liked setting things up in completely the wrong way then if they were making all the CPS games only take up part of a 4:3 then ;-)

SF3 was mentioned because the number of times people insist that the 1:1 pixel aspect is always correct and therefore cps1/2/3 (all of which are 384x224 res) must be widescreen is absurd.

A lot of people remember them like that because many early emulators didn't support proper stretching so they ended up running letterboxed on the PC if you didn't have a compatible resolution.

Howard_Casto:
We are going to have to agree to disagree then.... I had posted a long response explaining why that just isn't so, but you won't believe me anyway, so it's pointless to post it.

I played these games regularly in the arcades, when they were brand new games. Unless you did the same you are only speculating.

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