There are still over 100 Games, that can be patched to widescreen, many of which belong to the best titles on the system. In other cases a code just hasn‘t been found yet, or the game simply has no way of modifying it in such a manor. So most 2D-Games do not have a widescreen-hack, just because of the way they are. It can not work for games, which are using static or pre-rendered backgrounds as well as bitmaps or videos, because they all have a fixed ascpect ratio. This, of course, will only work for games, which render the whole gaming world outside the 4:3 area. To achive that, one can try to manipulate the geometry of a game by basically squeezing the image together, so that when stretched on a Widescreen-TV the whole enviorment and characters will look normal.Īs you can see by the second picture above, squeezing the picture horizontly will make more area on the sides visible (represented by the two small circles). However, it is possible to alter the games to be displayed in fullscreen with their correct aspect ratio, so that the game‘s graphics are not distorted. In consequence, when displayed on a modern Widescreen-TV you have either black bars left and right or a stretched image. Only a very small handful of games have a widescreen-option (e.g. The Washington Times – via HighBeam Research (subscription required).Dreamcast-Games were intended to be played on a 4:3 TV. 'A Violent, Evocative Romp from Brain Behind Spawn'. ^ Szadkowski, Joseph (December 27, 2003).Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. New Straits Times – via HighBeam Research (subscription required). ^ a b 'Spawn: Armageddon for Xbox Reviews'.^ a b 'Spawn: Armageddon for PlayStation 2 Reviews'.^ a b 'Spawn: Armageddon for GameCube Reviews'.

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