NES Emulators and HD Resolutions

[Dougtron]

I recently got a nice 1080p HDTV that I've been using as my monitor and so far it's been great. However the other day I was trying to play some NES games and I couldn't get any emulators to work in fullscreen and still have the correct aspect ratio. I was fooling around with FCEUX and tryed all kinds of different combinations of settings and just couldn't get it to work properly in fullscreen. My desktop resolution is 1920x1080. Anyone have any advice?

[MrPopo]

Config->Video

Set Video Mode to custom, then on the right side set your resolution and then select Scale Dimensions by: and set it to some integer. I believe NES games are all at 320x200, so you want the largest integer that will not go over your monitor resolution.

Note: I haven't actually tried this; I run it in windowed mode and I'm currently at work, so I don't have access to a ROM.

[CRTGAMER]

I recently got a nice 1080p HDTV that I've been using as my monitor and so far it's been great. However the other day I was trying to play some NES games and I couldn't get any emulators to work in fullscreen and still have the correct aspect ratio. I was fooling around with FCEUX and tryed all kinds of different combinations of settings and just couldn't get it to work properly in fullscreen. My desktop resolution is 1920x1080. Anyone have any advice?

Just like various older PC games, your emulator displays the games in a lower resolution. A 4:3 screen will display with black bars on the sides of a widescreen monitor. If you want the full "Stretch" then there is a way.

1. Temporarily set you computer resolution to the lower resolution of the emulated game, my guess is 640x480. The problem is Win 7 only goes down to 800x600 so try that.

2. While the computer is in the lower resolution go to your specific Video Card Controls. Set the display to Full to utilize all of the screen. This needs to be done at each resolution. The end result is your 4:3 screen will be stretched to widescreen, at least now all the screen is utilized.

[Dougtron]

I don't want it stretched to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio, I'd just like it to fill as much of the screen as possible while still maintaining the 4:3 aspect ratio. Most other emulators I've used do this without any problem or special settings, just can't seem to get it to work for the NES.

[markeconrad]

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[indecks]

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I hadn't messed with a NES Emu in a while but I felt like playing contra and I seem to be having the same issue. The games will run in windowed mode, but if I can get them to go full screen without some sort of error (and failing to actually go FS) then everything is this weird pink color. Can't seem to figure this out.

Did you ever get this sorted, Dougtron?

[Anapan]

If you have a Nvidia card, you may need to send commands to the driver on how to handle 4x3 video modes (if the "Flat Panel Scaling"/"Desktop Size and Position" dialog isn't present like what happened to me because I'm using a DVI-HDMI adapter). They're console commands, so you can make batch files to send the commands with a double-click:

Create a text file named "aspect.bat" with the following line in it:

Code: Select all

rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg setscaling 1 DA 5

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the command works like this:

rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg setscaling <screen #> DA <mode #>

Screen number is what your screen(s) identify as when you click the "Identify Screen" button - defaults to 1 if that how many you have.

Mode settings are as follows:
0 : Default
1 : Native
2 : Scaling
3 : Centered
5 : Aspect
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Read here for more:
http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/ ... o-setting/

If you have an ATI graphics card, you could try this guide: http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_3.html