MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Recording a video after playing it

> > Well, I'm sorry you find it "terrible". I personally don't think it rises to the
> > level of mildly annoying - but we're all different.
>
> You seem to think this is a subjective issue and therefore subject to debate. It
> really isn't.
>
> > I don't have an arcade cabinet. I don't have arcade controls. I don't have the
> lights
> > dimmed to restrict reflections, and I don't play naff pop music in the background
> for
> > ambiance. There are lots of ways I don't emulate the original experience. It's just
> > not that important to me. I accept it may be to you, and of course, I'm happy you
> can
> > run the games any way you please.
>
> You are of course free to use emulators in any way and under any context you like
> (though unlike buying arcade controls etc., playing under the correct aspect ratio
> costs you neither time nor effort, so why you deliberately force a "Fat Chun-Li"
> aspect ratio on your games when they weren't developed that way is bewildering).
> Rather, my comments, and those of others here, are based on your public encouragement
> - and yes *propagation* of the notion that it's somehow a good idea to do what you're
> doing, when it simply isn't. It's hard to sit silent and watch bad advice like this
> encouraging others to do the same, who will eventually give the same advice to more
> people.
>
> Or if you prefer: privately it's no big deal, but publically it isn't right, and
> disservices the original developers to boot.

I'm sorry, but from my side of the fence it looks like you're trying to apply a hard set of rules on what people should, and shouldn't do. You're trying to dictate to people what is, and what is not, acceptable. That's the problem.

I have no issue with someone like yourself saying "people should run the games in their OAR". No issue at all. Not even a little bit. I equally have no issue with someone deciding - "You know what, 4:3 game really doesn't look too bad played edge to edge on a 16:9". It's a preference, that's all.

By claiming I'm somehow "promoting" my view by mentioning it on an Internet forum is just another dictatorial move to shut down all mention of something you don't like due to your personal preference. Disagreeing is okay, but what you and others are doing here isn't, imo. That you willfully don't see this just shows that intolerance is the root of it.

My "advice" (actually it's a statement of preference, not advice, but whatever) isn't "bad", it's just an opinion you and some others disagree with. If the OP had asked how best to play the games to more fully have the original arcade experience, then I'd have suggested they use the OAR. But that wasn't the case.

You are seeking to be "right" on something that is an option - not a dictate. People can do one thing, or another. These games do not have to be played in their OAR. There's a checkbox you can use to turn it on or off. A choice then. For me, there is nothing remotely wrong with stretching a game if you think it doesn't hurt the gameplay. If you do think it's some act of heresy, run it in OAR.

4:3 stretched to 16:9 looks just fine to me in most cases. 3:4 stretched to 16:9 looks terrible. I've nothing to apologize for. Also, given the response here, be assured that if I see a post like the OP, and the response I replied too, again - I'll be sure to chime in with exactly the same reply. I certainly won't be bullied into silence, or forced into PM just so I can make the cyber-bullies here happy. You don't like how I play some games? Oh well, get over it. Cursing at me, calling me names, and trying to make hard-fasted rules I should comply with won't work I'm afraid. You're a bully, and I won't curtail to you.