Quick Question: GGAC XBL Aspect Ratio / Borders

[Iapetus]

First - I apologize in advance if this information is found elsewhere in the beginner thread of the GGAC specific subforum. I tried to find it on my own and had no such luck.

Before I purchase GGAC on XBL, I need to know if I can change the aspect ratio of the game. To be clear, I am well aware the game is always in 4:3, but I would like the option to remove borders and play in FULL SCREEN on my 4:3 RGB CRT. I am not able to confirm this information on my own with just the Demo as the Demo will not let you access Help & Options. On my CRT when I boot up the demo, the borders still appear, squishing the actual playing field. I understand borders are helpful on widescreen/HD televisions, but I play all my fighting games on my RGB monitor, so this is actually a detriment to me if I can not disable it.

Is there a way to disable this so I can view the full screen unobstructed? All footage I have found always has borders.

Thank you in advance for any responses to my question.

[Ctrlaltwtf]

Can you not manually adjust the CRT monitors settings to compensate? I wouldn't be surprised if there's a compatibility mode for 4:3 ratios somewhere, seeing as that was the games original format, but I don't know anything specific.

Your 360 is sending 4:3 output to your TV right?

[Iapetus]

I am not home atm (working) so I cannot 100% confirm, but I am pretty darned sure my 360 is formatted to be 4:3 automatically. The Xbox main menu is formatted as such and so is SSF2HDR, which conforms to TV restraints.

I an not able to change the overscan or manually adjust the image on my television (it is a medical RGB monitor I use for gaming). If I can adjust or "stretch" the image in the Help/Options of the game itself, that should work.

Are we able to do that?

[qwerty]

Unfortunately, you're stuck with letterboxing. As someone who used to use CRTs exclusively, I feel your pain.

Arcsys doesn't think it's a priority, I guess, since AH3 forces letterboxing as well.

[Ctrlaltwtf]

That seems incredibly sloppy on part of the developers. Doesn't BB support 4:3 ratios? Display Type C I think.

Who knows, maybe the spring +R patch will fix it (haha)

[TheGreatReptar]

BB on Xbox doesn't support 4:3 ratios. There's always cutoff iirc.

[Fenrir Werwolf]

BB on Xbox doesn't support 4:3 ratios. There's always cutoff iirc.

But BB is made in 16:9, while GG is on 4:3

They should do like SF3 porting, i play it in my crt wonderfuly, while I have to play GG in my hd monitor

I think to have read somewhere that arc will fix that in the upcoming patch

[Ctrlaltwtf]

BB on Xbox doesn't support 4:3 ratios. There's always cutoff iirc.

What? BB has a "Display Type C" that's a 4:3. I think even some of the arcade cabinets still use 4:3 (less floorspace to stack a bunch of of 4:3 displays next to each other than a bunch of 16:9s)

After actually getting home and testing the options menu I found that you can't change the ratio. You can move the HPos/VPos but you can't manipulate the screen size itself.

[Iapetus]

Thank you everyone for you responses!

I do hope ArcSys considers fixing this issue in the patch as well as the input lag for XBL version.

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