Anyone else play Ikaruga on Gamecube in vertical 16:9?

[mario2butts]

God I love this game. The coolest thing about it is that it supports 480p widescreen, so that it will fill the screen (rather than be scaled down with black bars on the sides) if you flip your TV sideways, for a perfect, clear, vertically oriented arcade style display.

It is so damn cool !!!

I have my Gamecube hooked up via component cables to a small LCD HDTV, which I flip sideways for Ikaruga, and man oh man is it sweet. Anyone else doing this? If not you should be.

Anyway are there any other games out there that do this, that is, support a "vertical widescreen" aspect ratio?

Heh, I guess you could call it "Tallscreen" or 9:16. Hee hee.

Thanks and sorry for the arguably trivial post.

[Rabid Peanut-Butter]

Wow, I envy you. I'm not aware of any other games that support a ratio that extreme. Quite a few shooters nowadays have the "tate mode" so some import titles might use it. I think Castle Shikigami 2 MIGHT do that as well, though it's been a while since I've played it.

[slip81]

I have a 20" widescreen LCD monitor that rotates vertically, and Ikaruga does look sweet. What's even better though is playing all of my MAME shooters in vertical bliss :)

[GarrettCRW]

The original Namco Museum series for PS1 supported it. Problem is, the emulation is pretty crap in many cases compared to the 50th Anniversary Collection for the modern system.

Also, if you care to import it, the Capcom Generation series for PS1 also supported this concept.

[Flack]

Trizeal, the Dreamcast shooter which was released this year, supports vertical mode (and VGA mode, for that matter). Look for my review of the game in the next issue of the DP Wire!

[Jive3D]

I've done this with Ikaruga - It's pretty cool.

[bargora]

Was the original arcade release of Ikaruga in 16:9 format? Just wondering. I've played in tate mode with the Dreamcast release, but it's been a while since I've done that, so I forget if there were black bars on the sides of the screen.

[roushimsx]

Why do people with widescreen monitors automatically assume that all vertical shooters are ment to be played in 9:16?

The proper aspect ratio is actually 3:4, so you're better off with a standard tv when it comes to playing them. The way you're playing it right now is distorted. Turn off your "Fill The Screen/Stretch" option and set the tv back to 4:3/normal mode and throw it on its side

that's how it SHOULD look.

Ditto for pretty much every vertical shooter in MAME.

edit - Unless you're talking about 480p trailers from apple's site, 480p is 640x480 progressive, which isn't a 16:9 aspect ratio.

[mario2butts]

roushimsx:

wow, thank you for the clarification. I measured the pixels of an ikaruga screenshot in photoshop and the proper aspect ratio is in fact 3:4. Sorry for the misinformation. You see, my TV automatically strectches any 4:3 material 480p and up to fill the 16:9 screen (there's no way around it, I even got one of Envision's engineers on the phone and he claimed all 480p/720p/1080i material was in 16:9. I gave him a schooling, to be sure). This blows, but I'm cheap and can't get a replacement set right now so I'm going to have to live with it.

However, there are 480p widescreen games out there (Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, etc). 480p does not necessarily equal 4:3, though you're right in saying Ikaruga is 4:3 or 3:4 if you flip your TV.

again, thanks. You've given me yet another incentive to ditch my current HDTV in favor of one that can actually show 4:3 undistorted!

[mezrabad]

<crazy wide-eyed rant>
My widescreen is a 34" flat-tube and weighs about 100 kilograms. If I turned it on its side, it would probably hang there for one beautiful, terrifying moment and then come crashing down to crush myself and my loved ones, because they would be sleeping underneath it.

But, to see Ikaruga stretched into a 9:16 ratio . . . well, we all know it would be worth it.

I'm going to go gather my sleeping family into the living room. One. Last. Time. @_@
</crazy wide-eyed rant>

(the above ramblings is not an insult to the person who started the topic, I just had a wierd vision of me trying to turn my TV sideways and I just had to go with it.)