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360 ---> Cabinet: 4:3 display advice

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I have my 360 hooked in my cab (AWSD) via a VGA cable.

Console is set to display 480p in the settings., monitor in the cabinet is horizontal.

Of the games I've tried so far Rez displays in a letterboxed format and Deathsmiles has borders; I had thought they would be in 4:3 and fill the screen?

I know on most Cave games you can zoom/adjust the picture but on others you don't normally get that option.

Am I doing something wrong or is that basically as good as it gets?
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DeathSmiles should be full screen, you have to zoom it though. Or are we talking DeathSmiles 2X? REZ might be 16:9 though, which will letterbox it on a 4:3 screen. :shifty:
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16:9 will certainly letterbox, the FSD dash does the same
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If a game is displayed 16:9 letterbox, you can change the systems display settings to 16:9 and this will stretch it to full screen.
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Andypc wrote:If a game is displayed 16:9 letterbox, you can change the systems display settings to 16:9 and this will stretch it to full screen.

At the expense of displaying the game at the wrong aspect ratio.

My advice:
leave it alone and don't try to play Otomedius in Gorgeous mode, which will certainly display too small.
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how small is this letter box ??? are we talkng small boxes, like an inch border ??? im assuming the monitor is 31k and 29"" the same size as a naomi.

that being the case, whats wrong with stretching it with the pots ???

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johnbud wrote:
that being the case, whats wrong with stretching it with the pots ???

For some titles that's actually not a bad idea. Never even occured to me. :palm:
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Dandy_Sephy wrote:16:9 will certainly letterbox, the FSD dash does the same
Though with newer versions of Freestyle Dash you can change it to 4:3 in the options - I run it full screen on my cab.

DeathSmiles will definitely display in 4:3 in the arcade modes - not sure the Xbox 360 modes will, though.

Personally, I wouldn't mess with trying to stretch out aspect ratios to fill full screen if there isn't a 4:3 option, but then again bad aspect ratios is a pet hate of mine (used to hate going round my mums house and seeing her watching 4:3 broadcasts stretched out to fill out the 16:9 TV she had). If there's no 4:3 setting (some games automatically lettrebox if your system settings are 4:3, sadly) then I suffer the thick black lines.
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Chi wrote:
Dandy_Sephy wrote:16:9 will certainly letterbox, the FSD dash does the same
Though with newer versions of Freestyle Dash you can change it to 4:3 in the options - I run it full screen on my cab.
I use the same console for my cab and a large amount of time on the tv, so that's not entirely practical. Although I have a spare hd so I guess I could stop being lazy and have a dedicated hd for the cab :awe: I have to use a flash drive for my profile anyway to use my slim
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I've just done this myself as I use my 360 with my cab and TV.

I have 60GB MS HDD + 1TB external drive setup near my TV and then I have a 120GB MS HDD containing all the shmups and cab friendly games.

That way I don't have to lug the external drive about when moving the 360.

I just installed FSD 2.0 RC 2.1 and Dashlaunch 2.11 on the 120GB HDD but for some reason only two games show up in FSD, even after setting the paths :palm: For the moment I have setup Dashlaunch to boot to xexmenu where they all show up. :?

It would be nice if there was a version of FSD or similar where you could change the rotation/layout of the dash on the fly for when you are running on a hori or vert monitor 8-)
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