Minor graphical issues & nitpicks in Widescreen

[MrSAP2]

This is a series of less serious graphical bugs I found when playing the game in widescreen. None of these are game-breaking, but I still wanted to bring them to your attention.

*Near the end of Boomer Kuwanger's stage at the outside-of-tower climb, There are these big black bars along the right side of the screen. There's gaps of blue in-between the black bars that alternate between thick & thin. *The "new weapon" screen has messed up graphics on the left and right sides. *The cutscene right before unlocking the Sigma Fortress stages has this big black bar on the right. +You can still see the background of Storm Eagle's stage behind this structure on the left at the start of the stage. *This one is a total nitpick, but I don't really like how the boss rooms are duplicated on the other side of the walls on the right. Maybe those could be filled in with thicker walls or something.

[mstan]

Super appreciate the thorough reporting. Please, keep it up!

Transparently, for these, I can't promise I'll be able to commit to a fix on them. For some background, a fair number of these are in some ways, "authentic" behavior of the game. These areas were never really meant to be seen, so it is either garbage data, or it is really truly what is there . And to fix that, you have to basically go in and conduct asset modifications or start to figure out specific hooks on things that lack those.

To start filling these things requires good ways to anchor them or very specific, potentially hardcoded hacks, which could have negative implications and be hard to pin down without a full disassembly.

One benefit of a good static recompiler is you can operate without any type of source disassembly or code. The downside is when it comes to seeking extensibility like this, you're far more limited. I suspect a number of these are going to require a complete decompilation to achieve. To date, I'm unaware of any X game having such a thing.

I'll poke at a few of these and see what I can do, but for these I am a bit more hesitant to commit to them being resolved given the nature of the issue.

[MrSAP2]

I'll poke at a few of these and see what I can do, but for these I am a bit more hesitant to commit to them being resolved given the nature of the issue.

Fair enough. I don't expect much to be done about these, I just wanted to point them out. Thanks for the honesty.