Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Echoes of Time [RFFEGD]

[Vague Rant]

I can't post on the hacker board so here's some stuff instead.

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Ideal Scaling with 2 and +/- (16:9) [Vague Rant]
2883AA9D 00001100
0461C6C0 3F200000
2883AA9D 00000110
0461C6C0 3EC00000

Ideal Scaling with 2 and +/- (4:3) [Vague Rant]
2883AA9D 00001100
0461C6C0 3F133333
2883AA9D 00000110
0461C6C0 3ED99999

Fullscreen Mode with Z and 2 (4:3) [Vague Rant]
2883AA9D 00002100
0461C6C0 3F799999

The whole DS port thing left the scaling on this game kind of a mess, with no way to get a sharp(ish) image. These codes bump the resolution to some sensible defaults at the press of some buttons. The widescreen code will give you one 384-line screen (a 2:1 scale) and one 224-line screen (7:6 scale). The 4:3 code will give you one 264-line screen (11:8 scale) and one 192-line screen (1:1 scale). The fullscreen code will make the left screen fill the entire TV and the right disappear entirely. This is kind of a stupid thing to do and makes the game largely impossible to play but it looks good in cutscenes. Don't forget the game has the built-in feature to swap screens with + and - together, so either screen can be the left/full one. Don't use fullscreen on 16:9, that doesn't make sense.

Pictures

I know it's counter-intuitive, but because of the respective resolutions on the Wii and DS, the off-screen is the sharp one in 4:3, rendered at a crisp 256*192, just like a real DS.

The opposite is true in widescreen, where the large image is anamorphic 384*384. That is to say, twice the size of a DS screen, but less sharp because of the way Wii does widescreen.

And here's what things look like in fullscreen. All the bitmap stuff (menus, etc.) kind of look like hell, but all the 3D-rendered stuff is done natively and looks quite nice besides the low-poly assets. This will look like ass in widescreen, so don't do it. It just lops off the top and bottom of the screen, it's really not pleasant.

[Arudo]

I'll just join this with the original topic. Thanks.