[Question] Different black borders n64 games

Panja

Now that I finally setup (good) n64 emulation with lr-mupen64plus-next on my x86 Ubuntu RetroPie install I noticed a lot of games (running US/NTSC only games) have black borders. Some games have bigger borders than others.

I know you can setup overscan but because some games have bigger borders than others the overscan can be a little off.

How do you guys handle it?

Panja

Any one?

Panja

No one having the same issues as me?

Panja

Could someone help me out with this?

Parabolaralus

@Panja Im not sure what you're talking about could you perhaps take a picture with your phone and post it?

Panja

@Parabolaralus
Sure can!
Will do so later on.

What I mean is the following:
I have set N64 emulation to 4:3 resolution.
Though games are giving me black borders/bars at the top and bottom.
I can correct that with the horizontal top and bottom overscan.
But some games have bigger black borders/bars than others.

So for instance if I set top overscan to 8 for one game, another game could have a much lower overscan which results in screen cut off because of the overscan 8.
Hopefully I explained this a little better now? :-)

Thorr69

N64 games have their own hardcoded letterboxing settings built into the games themselves. There will never be a single setting makes all your games fit the way you want them to.

Parabolaralus

@Panja Im going to go with @Thorr69 on this one.

There were certain games that did this on purpose and im not sure if it was for increased FOV, or getting that widescreen effect on a 4:3 monitor but i recall one in particular on real hardware driving me naners back in the day. Perfect Dark and so i snapped this photo last night on my x86 build:

There is actually an image size setting on my TV (TCL) which normal zooms in about an inch removing the bottom/top bars in most games however not all. I actually leave it on this most of the time for this build which is set per input so it doesnt effect the others...Though as you mentioned your over/underscan settings get the job done similarly.

Panja

@Thorr69 @Parabolaralus
Ok, thanks for the help and info!