MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Recording a video after playing it

> I didn't ignore R. Belmont. I just don't happen to think it matters even half as much
> as you do. Is that really so bad? I'm sure he did some great work, I'm very pleased
> for him. However, does he really think it's the end of the world that monitors are
> now 16:9?

I had the first 16:9 TV on my block, and I programmed some of the first games that could display true 16:9 with a wider FOV (and without making the characters fatter). That said, I never, *ever* ran 4:3 games stretched out, because much like Moogly's Mona Lisa example, it looks fucking dreadful, and I had more respect for the original creators (some of whom were me) than that.

> I hope he at least has the maturity
> to know that times change, people have different preferences, and at the end of the
> day, it's playing the game that's important, you know, having fun.

I know that times change. I also know that if someone projected a 4:3 classic movie like Casablanca and stretched it out to where Bogart appeared to be a Person of Wal-Mart there would be film-geek riots. I believe video games are an important cultural artifact and are worthy of the same sort of accurate presentation.

> Coz, while they
> might prefer it in 4:3, it's not a deal breaker, the be-all and end-all. Maybe it's
> the complete package - design, gameplay, difficulty, peoples love for their creation,
> etc. that counts for a lot.

Video games, as I've been told repeatedly during my career when I got too uppity about making game audio great, are called that because of the graphics. If you aren't viewing the graphics in OAR, then you aren't playing the game properly. Period.

> I have not denied the developers and artists an opinion. It's you that wants to lock
> down opinions. It's not a black and white issue - it's a preference.

No, it really isn't. We're talking about the technical parameters the game was designed for, just as movies are intended to be viewed in some specific aspect ratio.

> By the wau, what does "special snowflake" mean? Who is "fat Chun-Li"? What does it
> have to do with this topic?

A "special snowflake" is someone who yells about "safe spaces" when confronted with reality. "Fat Chun-Li" is what happens when persons like yourself make the "choice" to play Street Fighter II stretched to 16:9.

> Can you name a single instance where the community was hurt by someone
> playing a game on a 16:9 screen out of OAR?

Yes, it's happening right now. People who don't know any better are watching the OP's YouTube videos and assuming that's how the games are supposed to look, which is frankly awful.