Widescreen issues

[Axer128]

Most obvious from the start: Void off to the left in the background/parallax layer.

Two obvious solutions: 1: Extend those layers either manually or with AI. Probably least desirable method.
2: Start camera detached from X, off to the right the exact amount of pixels 16:9 requires to avoid showing the black. Re-attach camera soon as X moves right far enough to re-center.
(More difficult but more optimal solution as doesn't require modding game assets).. Would also need to delay the paralax effect from starting tell camera starts moving.

Also 2 could help fix another issue : Slightly as you reach the first area with a roof, the parallax layer runs out due to being hard coded for 4:3, so looks quite bad.. If the parallax layer was also fixed in place X frames at the start before it starts to parallax, it would avoid this issue. (Sure may not line up exactly as intended doing that, but still would look tons better overall)
Notably: This issue doesn't seem present in the attract mode showing this stage?

Title screen: Weird blue diamond texture off to the right, pretty sure not supposed to be there.

Gameplay: Lemons only shoot 4:3 distance. Obviously giving them full screen range will affect game balance.. But yea logically they should extend the full width and the gameplay balance impact would be minor. And this is how you implemented it in your X1 recomp, where full range lemons work very well, so seems worth fixing here too.

Accessibility: I'm fine with this being in the mods section.. But because you implement like a bagillion mod options.. (awesome).. its rather time consuming to find and enable.. Giving it's a core feature that sets this recomp apart from the official PC ports/etc.. it should be more prevalent/easy to access.
imo:
Add a note about it in the display settings that its in mods, so ppl at least know it exists.
Than in mods, add a section that hard-sorted to the top called "Core".
in it, include widescreen, frame interpolation and fast loading
(delete display and QoL sections)

[mstan]

Hiya! Thanks for reporting. So this one is a bit tricky.

The widescreen mod here is widening the viewport adding some spawn/cull behavioral differences. But by virtue of doing so, it ends up exposing parts of the game that were perhaps never meant to be seen.

So semantically, things "not supposed to be there" gets tricky. For example, the diamonds to the right of the title screen, technically really are there. But under normal circumstances, can't be seen. But they're exposed now by virtue of these modifications.

Similarly, the left of the starting area or any other out of bounds view look poor too since they were also not meant to be seen.

What gets tricky is to fix these is either suppress areas that aren't easily targeted, or otherwise modify game assets to make into something new.

Given the general scope of this project and what I'm doing with psxrecomp, while it's doable in theory, it does require considerable time investment (and/or money depending) to decompile a game and then the time to modify these assets.

Given the ROI and that it's game specific, it is unfortunately something I'm going to flagged as blocked until a community provided decompilation is available. If you become aware of such an initiative, do let me know.

Regarding the Display settings being under mods vs not. A conscious decision to move this to mods was done by design. This is not a universal application, and not all psxrecomp games are going to have it. It is a modification, in essence.

Regarding why there are so many mods, that would be because Megaman X6 Tweaks was adapted to this recompilation. It is possible to use the search box to see what mod are available. "Widescreen" would come back.

Moving it to display would cause a number of complications to the recomp-ui library used across my recomps; but I am open to other feedback on how it may be better exposed. Perhaps more prevalent in the project readme?

[Axer128]

Understandable about the complexities of fixing the intrinsic widescreen issues.

Here is an alternate idea how to make the fact it has no widescreen not so hidden.. no, most ppl dont look at the readme.. So:
Allow more window sizes, eg: add 16:9 equivalents to all the ones currently offered, and if selected, either put some red text on the launcher screen saying widescreen mod needs to be enabled for this window size to work, or just auto redirect the user to the mod so they can enable it.

Could also have a vsync/fps limit in there, which also has text/link next to it to mods sections to enable high fps interpolation.

I get you are working on tons of recomps so ideally all this goes into the trunk, and some games wont have widescreen/interpolation, but I think the programming wont be too tricky to have some if statements to detect if such mods are available for the current loaded project and hide the relevant stuff if they aren't.