Metroid Prime Widecsreen mode? (1 Viewer)

[Mike Miskulin]

I recently picked up a component cable for the cube and switched the game to progressive scan as outlined in the manual. However, the game stays in a 4:3 format and does not "automatically" switch to a 16:9 format. Am I missing an option in a menu somewhere, or does the game not include a widescreen mode as advertised?

mike.

 

[Dave Bennett]

I don't believe Metroid Prime has a 16x9 mode. For that matter, where does it advertise one? The back of the game has a progressive scan icon but nothing about 16x9.

 

[BertFalasco]

Being encoded in prog. scan is irrelevant to whether or not it's encoded (that right word?) in 16x9 format. In my opinion, I'd rather have a game in 16x9 over better resolution, that's just me. Bringing that up, I was playing some Gamecube on our new Mistu 65" and it stretched the game but it looked good. As though it was already in 16x9 but it didn't support it. It seemed as though it really was showing 33% more of the game but I doubt it. Why does it look good when stretchnig is so ghetto?

-Bert

 

[Mike Miskulin]

Not advertised per se, but according to page 11 of the manual:

Please note that on some TVs, activating the progressive scan mode will set the format of the image to a wide-screen (16:9) format.

I own the (very nice) Hitachi 57SWX20b. Connecting component video and activating progressive scan mode does not change the aspect ratio.

mike.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

What the manual says is that the TV is doing the stretch and the image isn't meant to be stretched like that.

 

[Romier S]

Please note that on some TVs, activating the progressive scan mode will set the format of the image to a wide-screen (16:9) format.

Some televisions only support prog scan in "full" or 16:9 mode and do not allow you to use a stretch mode while in prog scan mode. Essentially the TV locks into 16:9 mode. That is what this means. It does not mean the game supports 16:9.

 

[Mike Miskulin]

If that is what is meant in the manual, it is horrible wording. My understanding of the wording was that the image would be readjusted to a 16x9 mode, not simply stretched.

Whether or not you activate progressive scan or for that matter use any AV cable (not just component) the picture will be set "to a wide-screen (16:9) format" on a "wide-screen" tv.

If all they meant to imply was that the picture will be stretched on a 16x9 tv, they really dropped the ball on this one and will mislead other consumers.

Damn glad I plopped down $35 for the component cables.

mike.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

The manual wording might be weird, but it does say that some TVs will automatically make the image widescreen, even if it isn't supposed to be, when it switches to progressive mode.

If it doesn't have it on the back of the case, it's not there.

 

[Mike Miskulin]

As an aside, are there any cube games that support wide-screen, progressive modes and if so, how is it pictured/worded on the back of the case?

mike.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

For widescreen, there is a picture of a TV screen with black bars and it says something along the lines of "Widescreen Enabled." For Progressive, it has a picture of a TV screen and says something "Progressive Scan Enabled." For both in the same game, both symbols are there.

 

[BertFalasco]

Starfox for sure has PS and 16x9. Odd though, no 16x9 notation on back but labeled for the 480p..hmm.
Check the HD/5.1 gaming thread, that's got very helpful insight/input.
-Bert

 

[Graeme Clark]

When you put the TV into 16x9 or Full, or "Stretch" mode, the image is in a widescreen (or 16:9) format, despite what the signal you're feeding it (if any at all). The wording is fine, and clearly makes reference to the TV, not the game.

Anyway, Metroid looks great in 16:9 mode anyway, so it shouldn't really be an issue.

 

[Miles_W]

Might not be your bag but my kids and I are still playing it daily...

SSX Tricky supports both I believe...

Miles

 

[Jeffrey Forner]

Let's not forget that Eternal Darkness and Super Monkey Ball 2 also support 480p and 16:9 modes.

 

[Richard Waller]

I've been playing Metroid on my 51" WS and it's really cool.

 

[John_V]

This thread at IGN seems to have the definitive list of progressive scan & widescreen games.
I also play Metroid "streched", I use the wide zoom mode on my Sony 34XBR800. It really does look good, and if I go back to the 4:3 mode I can't play it, because it feels like I have tunnel vision.

 

[Mike Miskulin]

Yeah, it loks fine stretched, but stretched is stretched, and "wide-screen" it ain't (and apparently was never intended to be).

The wording is still horrible.