RE: 4 Wiidition is still awesome

Null · 06-23-2007, 11:15 AM

wait wait wait, so the game always ran in widescreen anyway? just with the black bars on top and bottom, even if you had a normal tv?

(sorry, i've never touched the game yet)

i thought the issue was that you were saying the game isnt really wide screen, it just zoomed in on the full screen version, taking away some of the top and bottom of the picture.

the real issue your talking about then is just the resolution quality of the image?

DeathsHand · 06-23-2007, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Null

wait wait wait, so the game always ran in widescreen anyway? just with the black bars on top and bottom, even if you had a normal tv?

(sorry, i've never touched the game yet)

i thought the issue was that you were saying the game isnt really wide screen, it just zoomed in on the full screen version, taking away some of the top and bottom of the picture.

the real issue your talking about then is just the resolution quality of the image?

Yeah, I suppose...

I guess taking pictures of the screen is not the best way to demonstrate the quality...

But yes, the Gamecube version is simply programmed with "pretend" widescreen... Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen simply put there for effect, despite the fact that there is no actual 16:9 setting for widescreen TVs...
The Wii version has the same bars when running in standard 4:3 mode...

The PS2 version supposidely has true 16:9 widescreen, though I don't own it so I havn't tested it, but the Wii version was said (by IGN and various other reviews) to also have true 16:9... But I switched back and forth between the two settings a number of times (either with my TV zooming in on the 4:3 picture, or the Wii displaying the "true 16:9 widescreen"), and it's the exact same thing... Both are slightly blurred and jaggy due to the zoom...

BreakABone · 06-23-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

wait wait wait, so the game always ran in widescreen anyway? just with the black bars on top and bottom, even if you had a normal tv?

(sorry, i've never touched the game yet)

i thought the issue was that you were saying the game isnt really wide screen, it just zoomed in on the full screen version, taking away some of the top and bottom of the picture.

the real issue your talking about then is just the resolution quality of the image?

No RE 4 doesn't run in widescreen on the Cube.
It runs in what I guess amounts to letterbox. It looks like a widescreen movie run on a normal TV but it looks that way no matter what TV you play it on. And isn't natively 16:9 I believe.

Null · 06-23-2007, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by BreakABone

No RE 4 doesn't run in widescreen on the Cube.
It runs in what I guess amounts to letterbox. It looks like a widescreen movie run on a normal TV but it looks that way no matter what TV you play it on. And isn't natively 16:9 I believe.

thats exactly what i just said. the game is running in widescreen no matter what.

i didnt say cube version was set up to run on a widescreen tv.

but it has the blackbars on it. so no matter what, the image was in widescreen. i didnt know that. i thought the game took up full screen on normal tv's.

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Originally Posted by Angrist

I hate it when they cut from movies to fake widescreen. My Jurassic Park DVD shows less image than my VHS. Go widescreen!

Hm, thinking about the Jurassic Park suddenly makes me long to my family's home..... weird.

very few movies do that, im not totally sure on Jurassic part. but this is true for little miss sunshine.

the movie is shot in super35 i believe its called.... so no matter what view your watching it as, your missing something.. widescreen chopped a little off top and bottom but you see the full left and right...... fullscreen chopped off from the left and right but you saw the full up and down.

kinda the jist of it.

im not sure if this was the case for jurassic park tho

DeathsHand · 06-23-2007, 01:59 PM

Some guy on the IGN board better explained what the Wii version does in 3 simple steps...

Step 1: Original Image

Step 2: Wii's 16:9 option stretches the image vertically.

Step 3: Your TV stretches the image horizontally to fit the screen

Resulting in a blurrier, jaggier, but larger image... Exactly what you'd get by playing in 4:3 with your TV set to "Zoom"...

What I don't understand is how so many different reviews could label it "True 16:9 widescreen"... Kinda lame... And misuninformeducating...

Dyne · 06-23-2007, 02:15 PM

But on the Wii, graphics don't matter! So there's that.

DeathsHand · 06-23-2007, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

But on the Wii, graphics don't matter! So there's that.

*scratches noggin*