Settings for Widescreen mode using Retroarch Plus on Android

[rdsngit]

@DerKoun In the Patreon comments discussion for the Super Mario World Widescreen beta v01 you explained that sometimes Android users of the bsnes-hd core in Retroarch Plus found .bso files were not overriding the local core settings. Would it be useful to add a section to the bsnes-hd Readme to explain to Android users which settings need to be used for Widescreen?

For context, I had the patched .sfc file in the same directory as the SMW .bso file. It initially displayed in regular SNES aspect ratio, eg 4:3. Then I changed some of the Settings that I though were related to get 16:9 Widescreen mode running successfully.

I've included a set of screenshots showing all the Settings, here are the ones I think could have been key to getting Widescreen working

Widescreen Mode = all
Widescreen Aspect Ratio = 16:9
Widescreen Sprites = unsafe
Pixel Aspect Correction = Off

Before	After

Settings part 1	Settings Part 2	Settings Part 3

[DerKoun]

I hope I can fix the BSO issue. But I'll talk to Vitor about including the settings (they vary between different games/patches). For that I'll have to add at least one BSO-exclusive setting to the core option, which I have planned for the next release as well.

[rdsngit]

Sounds like you have some ideas for fixing this for future releases. Could it be useful to have a bsnes-hd core setting to tell the core to look for and use the BSO file if it is present? Eg something like "Use BSO file for Settings = true / false"

[DerKoun]

Not sure in which use-case disabling the BSO would be useful. But it is possible.

[rdsngit]

Ok, if you're planning to fix that so it detects and applies BSO automatically then that sounds a good approach. Should we close this issue if you're already working on this for a future release?

[DerKoun]

I'll close it after the release.

[DerKoun]

Please try the BSO again in the latest version (10.6) and let me know if it works. If it doesn't first please tripple check if you named the 3 files correctly. Then, if possible, try the RetroArch APK instead of the Play Store version. Thanks

[rdsngit]

@DerKoun Thanks for the update - I can confirm this is now working.

Tested this today using the bsnes-hd version 10.6 using the latest version of Retroarch Plus for Android.

Steps:

• Reset the bsnes-hd settings back to their defaults.
• Added the SMW Widescreen v1.2 patch and BSO file with an unpatched SMW rom to the same directory
• Renamed all three files names to the same name in the same directory
• Started the core and selected the SFC file
• It loaded into 16:9 widescreen mode

This worked in 16:9 widescreen mode. There were some related things about aspect rations that I found. If you go into the core settings and change Widescreen Aspect Ratio to 21:9 it stretches the 16:9 game display area and 16:10 squashes the game display area. I assume these are left in for users that have different size displays and want to user the SMW Widescreen patch.

[rdsngit]

Closing this issue now that the fix has been released.