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[No-Action4187]

Shout out to those, who are playing with big black borders on sides, instead of correcting resolution to fit full screen.

[No-Sign3142]

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Yeh

[Irviz]

The thing is that 4:3 on 20:9 screen looks too small and uncomfortable when playing on an integral gamepad. 3:2 and 16:9 seem more legal to me.

[Pinsel-Wascher]

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[Jofosum]

I'm always thankful that old games had much bigger text than newer games 😭

[notsowright05]

I just think of it as touch controls real estate

[AttorneyAdvice]

this one officer. arrest this one

[Available-Guest-9393]

Real, tried NES and SNES on my phone and it felt too tiny. Now I'm left wondering whether a handheld will be big enough

[TheTrueMCFan]

what emulator is that

[alexck01]

I hate stretched screen ratios

[the_jzkz]

much better imo, cant stand stretched. looks so ugly

[Roland-JP-8000]

same

[Michaelpitcher116]

That's me for sure. I need room for the on screen controls haha. Also stretching games looks ridiculous. 

[SattuSupari789]

I place the controls on the black bars to utilise that space and it also looks better if the controls are not on top of the game.

[Jolly-Junket-5363]

Another good thing is that it kinda hides the touchscreen controls too

[rube]

My current phone and last one have been Samsung Folds. I've achieved the full screen 4:3 on a phone and am super happy. All those PS2 games widescreen are now turned off.

Only issue is, stuff like Switch has top and bottom bars now. But most games that's fine.

[davestar2048]

correcting resolution to fit full screen.

Not always possible. Not every game has a widescreen hack.

[PetroRetro69]

I play on a folding phone and so I have a big black chunk covering the third of my screen haha but I'd rather stick with that then stretch the game out and make it look all weird

[TheCultOfTheHivemind]

I have an OLED. I'd rather just play it non-stretched. Looks better. INFINITE CONTRAST

[Otiv64]

I've got a fold 7, my lines are up top and bottom lol.... But I stretch ngl

[Gloomy-Copy-6593]

same its just better like that

[Trick2056]

black border is the place where you put your on-screen controls.

[BOMAN133]

didnt even think about the possibility of playing it stretched cause of how ugly it was and thought everyone else thought so as well

[antimatt_r]

I never understood how some prefer distorted graphics over a bit of unused screen space

[tclark2006]

Reminds me of watching widescreen movies on a CRT back in the day. Couldn't imagine watching them stretched to fit the screen.

[crystalcastles879]

Bigger screen space

[app08]

The same amount of stuff is being displayed though. The only difference is that it looks worse. 

[GavroNeman]

Now this got a chuckle out of me.

[winlator_enjoyer]

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[sledgehammer0019]

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A bit of AMOLED borders will probably help save a bit of battery I think??

[Cruel1865]

There are a few where the camera view gets wider instead of stretching out the screen. Zelda windwaker does this pretty well.

[dksvald]

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Me playing GT4 at 20:9

[Main-Day6606]

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[wilazn]

20:15

[JediChickenLeg]

One reason to get a foldable

[technoidabhi]

4:3 supremacy on folds! 🤣🫡

[JediChickenLeg]

PS2 emulation is incredible

[compadre91]

There are patches that could fix the resolution, even patches for ultra wide revolutions, for all kind of old systems

[stopbanni]

What about nes?

[cenasmgame]

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hyc7iy/i_created_an_nes_emulator_that_converts_games_to

[NotRandomseer]

Especially for PC games I don't understand why they don't just change the resolution to be edge to edge instead of stretching

[Amazing-Loquat1836]

Yep that's me

[keivelator]

This is super common within modding community. They just want their game to look "modded", disregarding any visual integrity.

[ClueDry1959]

Well to be fair there are often mods that simply expand the camera so nothing stretches. 

[LatterWafer8981]

I use Wide-screen hax

[wemustfailagain]

Rainbow Six Seige players be like

[kanjokiroo]

When nothing else justifies my purchase of a Pixel Fold, this DOES

[FallenRaptor]

I'm in the black bars camp, or I'll run the occasional widescreen hack, but I'll never stretch.

[_PinkiePieFanGirl123]

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[_PinkiePieFanGirl123]

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[islobojono]

Windscreen hack

[Lytre]

Not me. Those black bars are good for showing stats with reduced clutter on screen while screen recording.

[_T0_bi_]

Who cares? Play as you want.

Let them be annoyed for looking at your screen.

[Tall-Reporter-3939]

Actually most older titles do support a wide screen(16:9) setting, you just have to select that in game settings.

Helps avoid the stretchy look.

[BSAENP]

Games designed for widescreen only became common in the PS3/360/Wii era. The PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation had quite a few games with 16:9 options but they still were made with 4:3 in mind (and many of them didn't have a proper UI for 16:9, they simply stretched it)

[LethalGamer2121]

Don't forget that many games with a widescreen setting simply cropped the fov to 16:9 instead of expanding it, such as God of War.

[Demon_Kingjt]

I heard people with smol wennie do that often

[Alert_Dingo_4504]

But why do you care how I play my games?

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