When using any widescreen solution there is more often than not, some 2D elements that will be stretched or not adjusted to display in the 16:9 space e.g speed dials in racers. This is why cheat codes are the way to go if a game doesn't have native widescreen support. As I mentioned above, emulator hacks have terrible pop-in outside the 4:3 space. This is due to devs simply not needing to use recourses on displaying anything outside 4:3 in those days. Because games were made to display in 4:3, anything that is displayed outside of that space will pop-in and out unless something is done to manipulate the code to render everything in the 16:9 space. Pop-in is the enemy of getting games to run in 16:9. PLEASE UNDERSTAND EMULATOR HACKS ARE NOT CHEAT CODES. This option only works on a handful of games and is generally not the way to go as pop-in is really obvious outside the 4:3 space. These are made on a per game basis and yield far better results than Emulator Hacks.Įmulator Hacks? Most emulators and cores now have a 'Widescreen Hack' option. A small number of games need directly patching however most use cheat codes. I was surprised to discover Goldeneye has native widescreen support, which would have made 4 player deathmatching wayyyyy better.Ĭheat Codes? - For games that have no Widescreen support there are some coding geniuses out there that have made easily implementable cheat codes to achieve Anamorphic 16:9.

Native Widescreen? - Some games actually have widescreen support from the older generations. True Anamorphic is adjusted for the 16:9 space so everything is rendered and displayed with no stretching. What is True Anamorphic 16:9? - When you set a 4:3 game to run 16:9 and that title doesn't support it, the image will be stretched. Whilst there are quite a few games that have native widescreen support there are hacks and cheats to unlock the aspect ratio to display a true Anamorphic 16:9 Widescreen image.

This is mostly 3D games of the 5th and 6th Console Generation. So I have caught the widescreen bug for games that were made before the widescreen revolution.

Sacred gold widescreen patch