You can now play SNES games in widescreen

[Dreamboum]

True, non-stretched widescreen!

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/bmc9t9/bsneshd_beta_5_bsnes_1073_formally_hd_mode_7_mod/

The caveat is that it's broken as hell, but it seems to be an interesting attempt. You need to use this bsnes fork called bsnes-hd.

To make it truly widescreen compatible across the board will require a huge effort with romhacks but this could very well be a future where true widescreen SNES games could be sold on PC and consoles

Screens from me or my friends:

BONUS: Ultra-widescreen (21:9)

 

[Deleted member 32822]

Those Sailor Moon beat-em-up games are so much fun, lol. This is a really neat idea.

 

[Deleted member 2791]

This is sooooo weird to look at.

 

[maximumzero]

That's some pretty neat tech.

 

[julia crawford]

This has got to be some kind of sin.

 

[RoderickToombs]

Man it would be awesome if this came to the super nt

 

[Mechanized]

This is fuckin me up

 

[No Depth]

No 21:9??!

 

[Red]

This is what popped up in that hi res mode 7 thread right. Really cool.

God the SNES was a monster. So many of those games hold up. It's crazy.

Man it would be awesome if this came to the super nt

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Maybe with some custom firmware or something? And a hacked ROM? I have no idea. Would be great though.

 

[-shadow-]

This is quite nice, but the interface will always be within the 4:3 window it seems. Am very interested in trying this myself some day.

 

[Hieroph]

Looks neat, but I wonder if games designed for the SNES aspect ratio actually play well in widescreen, from a design perspective.

 

[SweetVermouth]

Looks cool but I can imagine the enemy placement will be totally fucked. And the screen will probably try to show something beyond the level boundaries. This would only really work well with lots of hacking for every game. I can only see that play well in a game like F-Zero.

 

[Dreamboum]

No 21:9??!

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My game collection is limited so that's most games that I could make it work in 21:9

 

[i20bot]

The HD Mode 7 was great but this? This doesn't feel right.

 

[GameShowPresident]

How would this work during times where there is no horizontal scrolling?

 

[NuclearCake]

It's neat but i wouldn't want to play these games in a aspect ration that they weren't designed for.

 

[Dreamboum]

How would this work during times where there is no horizontal scrolling?

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It would show black (or garbage tiles), it's not that different from FF6 where you enter a house and it's just black borders beyond the house

 

[Deleted member 721]

This seems awesome

 

[Big One]

It'll be interesting to see if people do widescreen hacks of the roms to allow this to be functional.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

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Name of this game or those games?

 

[Yesterday]

This is fucked up

 

[Dreamboum]

Name of this game or those games?

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Last Bible III, an SMT spin-off

 

[Richietto]

Pretty freakin cool. I imagine most games won't play properly and have weird visual issues all over but over time? I expect people to clean up a lot of these games so their fully functional.

 

[kickz]

This looks great, would love to play some of these games again

 

[DjDeathCool]

So, is this the beginning of something great or is this a fun experiment that likely will never go anywhere.

 

[Serif]

Jesus FUCK

 

[Dary]

These things always end up with the crew in shot.

 

[Linde]

Looks so wrong but so right

 

[Flon]

Wha.

I assume sprites will act quite messy with this but it's still incredible and the screenshots look gorgeous.

This kinda reminds me of that function in emulators that allowed GameGear games to display at a higher resolution. It had some pretty crazy results.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Last Bible III, an SMT spin-off

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Thanks. Looks interesting!

 

[mopinks]

this is one of those "I appreciate the technical wizardry but I'm not sure why I would actually want this" things for me

 

[Lowblood]

Yeah, this will work better for some games than others (Last Bible there having some issues with menu wrapping), though finding out that will be half the fun.

 

[Dreamboum]

ALTTP in 21:9

 

[KINGOFSHIBUYA Ltd.]

You always could, but it breaks the games usually, or you see stuff you weren't supposed to.

I feel like Sonic games benefited a lot from this type of hack though.

ALTTP in 21:9

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The UI though XD

 

[Jangowuzhere]

I don't really get the obsession with forcing older 4:3 games to display 16:9.

Do the black bars really bother people that much? I actually feel like I'm getting a worse experience when using this stuff, many games from the past were never intended for 16:9. You're seeing extra screen space that was never intended to be seen by the developers.

 

[thepenguin55]

This is cool! Though yeah, I'm sure it's super busted.

On a semi-related note, I just decided to start watching the new Sailor Moon dub on Hulu. I watched Sailor Moon as a kid on Fox Kids back in the day so its been interesting going through it. I mention this because the screenshot of Sailor Moon crying is funny to me as I apparently forgot about just how often she cries. It's like a minimum of twice an episode. lol. She's also a lazy slacker gamer which I didn't remember either.

 

[Dreamboum]

I don't really get the obsession with forcing older 4:3 games to display 16:9.

Do the black bars really bother people that much? I actually feel like I'm getting a worse experience when using this stuff, many games from the past were never intended for 16:9. You're seeing extra screen space that was never intended to be seen by the developers.

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This is not stretched widescreen but true widescreen. I have no issue with the original aspect ratio but I'm also open to having widescreen solutions where you get to see more of the game on your screen

 

[TylersProphecy]

It still cuts stuff off though. You can see it in the snow trail in the last bible 3 screenshot and Sailor Moon's boot is missing on the right.

 

[Lucas M. Thomas]

A video of Super Mario World in widescreen.

 

[hankenta]

It still cuts stuff off though. You can see it in the snow trail in the last bible 3 screenshot and Sailor Moon's boot is missing on the right.

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Well it's gonna wary between games. For Last Bible that's where the snow sprites are drawn on the screen, and the Sailor Moon sprite probably actually looks like that with no boot.

 

[PerrierChaud]

This is so wrong my head hurts

 

[Molten_]

it's really apparent how masterful the pixel art is in these games when directly compared to modern indie games that use 16:9 aspect ratio as well

the art still holds up beautifully. good pixel art is timeless

 

[Deleted member 3010]

That's pretty fucking cool, honestly.

Though this will require a lots, lots and lots of tweaking, per-game adjustments.

The SNES emulation scene, if you're looking for a 1:1 experience, is pretty much at the best place it can be, so why the hell not. When you reached this point, might as well start experiencing with new stuff, just like that HD Mode 7 we heard about a few weeks ago.

 

[Solid SOAP]

Is there any way to implement this into my SNES Mini??

 

[Deleted member 3010]

Is there any way to implement this into my SNES Mini??

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Nope, this is for BSNES, a cycle accurate emulator that requires quite a lot more than what the SNES Mini can offer, hardware wise.

Both are their own very different beasts.

 

[Defect]

Let's see Super Metroid

 

[rodrigolfp]

Oh emulation, I love you S2

 

[Tailzo]

This is incredible. I want this kind of thing for all my old games and consoles.

 

[Askherserenity]

It looks beautiful 😍

 

[Deleted member 442]

I think I'm kinda down with this.