Higher-Res and/or without black borders Saturn Hacks (StHA, SF3 and more)

[Thief]

Just glanced over at Shining Force Central and stumbled upon this very interesting thread; http://forums.shiningforcecentral.co...p?f=10&t=26483


^ With black borders


^ Without black borders







^ 320x240 plus letterbox borders (so really 320x224)


^ 352x240 minus letterbox borders





Games;
- Story of Thor
- Shining the Holy Ark
- WWF Wrestlemanis The Arcade Game
- Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norsewest
- Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
- Shining Force 3 Scenario 1
- Shining Force 3 Scenario 2
- Shining Force 3 Scenario 3
- Shining Force 3 Premium Disk
- Phsychic Killer Taromaru
- Genso Suikoden

Links from the man himself, paul_met; http://www.emu-land.net/forum/index....tml#msg1157450


From what I read so far, works on Yabause, SSF and real hardware. But not sure if and who tested this on real hardware so far and the results (ie. frame rate)...

[Black_Tiger]

The black borders in Saturn Shining games are stylistic and nod to the 16-bit Shining games.

[Thief]

The black borders in Saturn Shining games are stylistic and nod to the 16-bit Shining games.

True dat. But I always also wondered while playing these games if they also contributed to reducing processing power? Namely because the graphically superior Scenario 2 & 3 have bigger borders then Scenario 1 during those battles scenes.

[midnightrider]

Why does there seem to be a lot more sky in the bordered version of Force?

Also, is Yabause the way to go these days? I don't trust disc mounting software, and the one I kind of do(portable WinCDEmu), doesn't register to SSF.

[Thief]

Why does there seem to be a lot more sky in the bordered version of Force?

Camera angle (look at the ground floor to see this).