Black bar on bottom of screen on PAL Wii

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run the game on a PAL Wii
2. Don't know if there are other requirements

It get difference results when i set my Wii to PAL480i and PAL576i, but for
both a i get a black bar at the bottom. And for PAL480i, a part of the
screen is cropped. See pictures. A little cropping is normal for my tv as
it does some overscan, but not that much.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nintendo...@kaffeeschluerfer.com on 25 May 2009 at 6:26

Attachments:

• PAL576i.jpg
• PAL480i.jpg

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This is known, and is not a priority.  The Tyrian source video is scaled to 
320x200,
and upscaling is set to 640x400.  Upscaling to 640x480 was not planned.  If 
enough
people want it, however, I will look into it.

Original comment by rhydonj@gmail.com on 25 May 2009 at 7:04

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Original comment by rhydonj@gmail.com on 25 May 2009 at 7:07

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640x480 might be nice.  I'm running into the samething on my NTSC Wii, which I 
found odd because this didn't 
exist on the previous version of Open Tyrian Wii.  It always filled my screen.  
Even if you don't do the upscaling 
at least consider centering the image giving it a widescreen appearance on a 
4:3 TV.

Original comment by thet...@gmail.com on 25 May 2009 at 8:03

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Ok, so it's not a problem, it's a feature request. Well, there's still the 
cropping
at the top, which shouldn't be there. Maybe centering the image as quick fix and
concentrate on more imprtant things first.

Original comment by nintendo...@kaffeeschluerfer.com on 25 May 2009 at 8:07

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It's happening on my NTSC wii also. Dude ya gotta address it its like buying a 
brand 
new sportscar with the whole bottom of the the cars paint missing. 

Excellent job with the app top notch... just needs some tweaks.

Original comment by Sonf...@gmail.com on 26 May 2009 at 11:49

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Alright, I'm looking into it.  I should hopefully have it changed by the next 
release.

Original comment by rhydonj@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 6:52

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By the way, I would suggest you keep it at 480i, as there's no guarantee that
anything I change will make the 576 work (as it has a higher height than the 
480). 
Besides, 576 is rather an odd and unorthodox display size for the Wii 
(considering
it's only supposed to have 480p and 480i).

Original comment by rhydonj@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 6:54

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As a side note, enabling full screen seems to do nothing (except maybe freezing 
the
game), so I wouldn't recommend trying it.  Also, don't change the graphics 
setting to
anything higher than 2x (i.e. no 3x or 4x), as you will have a crash and it will
reload HBC.

Original comment by rhydonj@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 8:14

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Mine running on 480P has a small black bar at both top and bottom (at scale2x), 
but 
nothing seems to be cropped.  Also, a weird thing, the mouse cursor shows up in 
these margins only, when the wii remote is pointed at them.  Some hinted 
functionality here?

Original comment by williamd...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2009 at 4:32

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@williamdude1: That was a comment made for the versions of OTW in which I had 
not yet
modified the code to center it (and later removed the fullscreen and 
3x/scale3x/4x
options from the opentyrian menu), which was made to be centered on a 480 
display. 
However, there are some drive chips out there now that modify output to 
widescreen
and/or 576i or something like that, and it is still distorted (and as the Wii 
was
never made to do that before, the support for it will be very unlikely).

As for the cursor showing up in the bars, that is because Wiimote mouse/joystick
hotswitching has not yet been enabled in SDL Wii (as far as I know; I haven't 
checked
in a week or so), and so the Wiimote is still recognized by SDL as a mouse and
joystick at the same time.  I just disabled OTW's internal mouse support.

Original comment by rhydonj@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 5:30

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