Bug#436980: fceu: New version breaks aspect ratio on wide ..

Adam C. Emerson · External Since: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 12

Package: fceu
Version: 0.98.12-2
Severity: normal

Good evening, gentle creature.

After upgrading 0.98.12-2, fceu no longer uses the proper aspect ratio.
1024x768 mode is stretched horizontally. Setting the package to the
'native' resolution, 1680x1050 causes the display to be heavily
compressed vertically and still stretched all the way horizontally.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF- Cool

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fceu depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-9 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

fceu recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Joe Nahmias · External Since: Apr 08, 2004 Posts: 30

Hi Adam,

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:34:06PM -0400, Adam C. Emerson wrote:
> After upgrading 0.98.12-2, fceu no longer uses the proper aspect ratio.
> 1024x768 mode is stretched horizontally. Setting the package to the
> 'native' resolution, 1680x1050 causes the display to be heavily
> compressed vertically and still stretched all the way horizontally.

I presume that you're using full screen mode with a screen that does not
have 3:4 ratio. Try disabling opengl on the command-line. For
example:

fceu -opengl 0 SuperMario.nes

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks,
--Joe

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Joe Nahmias · External Since: Apr 08, 2004 Posts: 30

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:05:18PM -0400, Adam C. Emerson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:56:44PM +0000, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> > I presume that you're using full screen mode with a screen that does not
> > have 3:4 ratio. Try disabling opengl on the command-line. For
> > example:
> >
> > fceu -opengl 0 SuperMario.nes
>
> That gets the aspect ratio right, but I just end up with a small area in
> the middle of the screen rather than having it scaled up but with the
> aspect ratio preserved.

OK, you should investigate the various scaling and resolution options to
get this right. Check out -xres, -yres and all the rest in
/usr/share/doc/fceu/fceultra.html.

I personally use the following display options:

fceu -opengl 0 -fs 1 -xres 640 -yres 480 /usr/share/nes/efp.nes

This uses most of the screen on my ThinkPad T61, with some black space
on the sides, because it's not a 4:3 display.

Hope this helps,
--Joe

PS - Please keep the BTS in the cc list.

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Adam C. Emerson · External Since: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 12

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:33:27AM +0000, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:05:18PM -0400, Adam C. Emerson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:56:44PM +0000, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> > > I presume that you're using full screen mode with a screen that does not
> > > have 3:4 ratio. Try disabling opengl on the command-line. For
> > > example:
> > >
> > > fceu -opengl 0 SuperMario.nes
> >
> > That gets the aspect ratio right, but I just end up with a small area in
> > the middle of the screen rather than having it scaled up but with the
> > aspect ratio preserved.
>
> OK, you should investigate the various scaling and resolution options to
> get this right. Check out -xres, -yres and all the rest in
> /usr/share/doc/fceu/fceultra.html.
>
> I personally use the following display options:
>
> fceu -opengl 0 -fs 1 -xres 640 -yres 480 /usr/share/nes/efp.nes
>
> This uses most of the screen on my ThinkPad T61, with some black space
> on the sides, because it's not a 4:3 display.
>
> Hope this helps,
> --Joe
>
> PS - Please keep the BTS in the cc list.
>
>

I shall give that a try. I was just surprised since it was working fine
immediately before the upgrade and quit after.

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