How to use 'TRACK04' widescreen fix?

[mickael28]

Hi, just joined the forum and trying to understand a few things, if you guys could help me with the following.

I see some games have a widescreen zip file and inside there's a Track04 file.
With the current development release, I can see the option of 'Game aspect ratio = 16:9 or stretched' but even that 16:9 seems to have the same image that you get on the 4:3 aspect ratio and the emulator stretches it to fit the width of the screen.

Does that Track04 file allows you to display the sides of the 4:3 image? so you'd have the black vertical lines you had in 4:3 populated with new graphics (rather than just stretching the width of the original image)

And if that's what Track04 was doing, how should I use it? I just overwrote the original file but it doesn't seem to do anything, ie, whether I use that patch or not... the 'aspect ratio 16:9' always behaves the same...

[mickael28]

As a note, I was trying this on Dolphin Blue game (which seems to be from AtomisWave) if that helps...

[fafadou]

Just replace the track04 for widescreen hacks 16/9

[mickael28]

Just replace the track04 for widescreen hacks 16/9

I'm just starting so maybe I was not even using the correct emulator for the game I got. Trying with Redream and Dolphin Blue, replacing track04 doesn't do anything really... the 16:9 option they've got built-in in that emulator behaves the same with or without the file replaced (and in both cases it stretches the 4:3 image)

Do you know in which emulator those track04 files might work?

[fafadou]

The patch are done for the true hardware.
Maybe redream is still in 4/3.
For me, redream has a 16/9 in its options but i'm not sure.

[mickael28]

I see, thank you. Talking to the developers of Redream about it, it seems that fix is not compatible with that software and they might need to do some changes on their end for a future release.

The default 16/9 option they've got fills the screen but stretching the 4/3 image rather than creating a proper 16/9 image.

I'll retry when they release a new version. Thanks!

[deluxux]

Why wouldn't you just emulate using the original Atomiswave rom and an Atomiswave emulator like Demul.