WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120 Hey, here's a fun fact, did you know that GoldenEye on the N64 actually supported widescreen? 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.280 But why would a game on the N64 need to support widescreen back in 1997? 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.400 And were they really expecting everybody to adopt widescreen so quickly? 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.720 Actually yeah. Turns out, widescreen TVs started rolling out as early as 1993 and most of the world. 00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:24.320 And Rare's home country of England in 1994, Channel 4 actually began broadcasting select 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:31.800 movies and TV shows in a format called PAL+, which is an analog format that supported 16x9. 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:36.080 It made sense that TV would eventually make its way over to 16x9, just as movies had done 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:40.540 in the 1950s because they just needed something to really spruce things up. 00:00:40.540 --> 00:00:43.920 People were tired of 4x3 movies, so they made them widescreen. 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:50.920 Don't know why. By 1998, the UK had introduced digital terrestrial television, which included more channels, 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:55.720 more selection, and anamorphic 16x9. 00:00:55.720 --> 00:00:59.240 Clear signal was the part that I was missing. It also had clearer signal. Time is running off. 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:04.400 Yeah, this is what happened when we don't have a prompter. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.000 Realistically, I should just have something on my laptop scrolling through things, but 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:14.360 I don't. So this is what you're getting. So we've covered the UK, but that's the UK. 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:18.560 Realistically, if you're outside of the UK, you probably don't care about the UK. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.560 Let's be real. Who was on the cutting edge of consumer electronics in the 90s, though? 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.560 Japan. Especially the NHK. 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:34.560 The NHK. Well, and you want me to put what it means, huh? 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.520 Yeah, because I don't know what the NHK means. I know NHK. 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:42.840 First one is probably Nippon, then two other words. 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.000 They had come up with, and we covered this a little bit in Laserdisc, they came up with 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:52.840 High Vision, which was 1080i all the way back in, I think, as early as the late 80s or early 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:57.840 90s. That's where the really expensive Laserdisc Muse players came in. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:03.200 That was all from the NHK, because what they really wanted to do was broadcast in 1080i. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:12.880 Actual answer, 1994. I didn't look it up. I had it written down, but the lack of prompter, you know, it's not the greatest to read off 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:20.240 of a script like this. Yeah, so 1080i TVs came out as early as 1990 in Japan. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:27.240 1994 was HD Laserdisc, and NHK really wanted to kind of corner that whole market as much 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:33.040 as they could. So, if we're actually looking for the earliest instance of widescreen gaming, we're not going 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:36.080 to be looking at Goldeneye or even Quake. 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:39.680 No, we're going to be looking a lot earlier than that, and we're going to be looking in 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:45.740 Japan. So, by most accounts, the first real visibly widescreen game available to consumers was 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:51.200 Virtua Fighter on the Sega 32X. Yes, the 32X is good for something. 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:58.480 And that came out in 1995, and real key phrase here is available for consumer purchase, because 00:02:58.480 --> 00:03:04.000 there was an instance two years before that where there was a console that could play 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:10.520 widescreen. PC gamers don't get on me, because, yes, PC gaming at the time did have widescreen, 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:17.080 but 200 by 600 only counts as widescreen if your pixels are actually square, which back 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:25.240 then a lot of PC pixels were not square, especially the 600 by 200 aspect ratio displays. 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:29.960 What is the first widescreen game that was really available to consumers? 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:34.800 Well, Bomberman. So Hudson Soft, they make Bomberman. 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:39.120 At the time, they were also making the PC Engine, also known as the Turbografx 16. 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:45.400 I think David and myself did an unboxing on ShortCircuit of one of those retro companies 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.480 remakes of it, Kev Tris' company. I don't remember what it's called. 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:52.440 They had this console, and they had this franchise that was going real well. 00:03:52.440 --> 00:03:56.280 I don't think they had come out with Kirby yet, and they weren't working on Mario Party 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:00.320 yet. So Hudson Soft was kind of just banking on Bomberman. 00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:06.560 So what do you do when you've got only one big franchise that you really want to succeed 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.360 on your one big console? Make a carnival and take it on tour. 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:16.960 For some reason, Hudson Soft decided that what they were going to do was create a new game 00:04:16.960 --> 00:04:20.720 for Bomberman. It was going to be widescreen, 1080i. 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:27.720 It was supporting 10 players, and it played on a weird mashup of two PC engines just kind 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:34.760 of wired together haphazardly, really an astounding feat, especially because you cannot find pictures 00:04:34.760 --> 00:04:39.560 of it. If you know where to find pictures, please leave a comment with the picture, because 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.240 I'm just going to be reading through the comments after this gets released, hoping that somebody has a picture. 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:47.560 I found one partial picture, but it's covered up by something. 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:55.120 This is from their events, their caravan events. I think it was like 93, 94, because they actually kept running this game until 97, I want to 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:02.400 say, and then they gave it to the NHK, because the NHK was really deep into all of this. 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:10.720 The NHK loves 1080i, they were really all in on that, and they were right to do so. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:15.640 So all of that is great, but was that really the first game available in widescreen, not 00:05:15.640 --> 00:05:23.160 counting non-square pixel PCs? No, this obviously wasn't the first widescreen game, because we have arcades, and in the 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:30.240 arcades there were games made by Taito, and what Taito used to love to do was triple monitor. 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.520 So they would take three monitors, make them look like one, and make games for that. 00:05:34.520 --> 00:05:44.520 So what games did they make for that? On this 36 by 9 aspect ratio, they had a couple, they had Ninja Warriors, they had Darius. 00:05:44.520 --> 00:05:51.840 They're also a couple of others, I think. We'll put that rule of all the other games right here, that's a future Tanner issue. 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:58.080 That is a future Tanner issue for sure. I guess I didn't even cover what anamorphic means, it means to just take a regular image 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:03.960 that's square and then just stretch it with no regard for pixel scaling, really. 00:06:03.960 --> 00:06:08.160 I mean pixel scaling is dealt with somewhere, but usually not by the thing doing the initial 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:12.320 stretch. So that pretty much covers everything that I wanted to cover here, but what we didn't 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:17.600 get to show in the video that I would really love to show is what Project 64 is capable 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:23.680 of doing on here. Not with GoldenEye. For some reason, GoldenEye and Perfect Dark, even though I think they both had widescreen 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:27.800 options, they don't play well with Project 64's widescreen implementation. 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.080 What does play well with it, however, is Mario Kart. 00:06:31.080 --> 00:06:36.760 Ba-bam. And of course, this is all legal, of course. 00:06:36.760 --> 00:06:42.200 I own so many copies of Mario Kart that if Nintendo wants to come and try and sue me, 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:48.840 I have plenty of things to throw at them. That's not like a challenge. 00:06:48.840 --> 00:06:53.000 No, it sounded like a threat. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.520 Mario lawyers, for the sake of legality, that was a joke. 00:06:56.520 --> 00:07:03.200 Oh my God, why won't you let me? So this is a problem with this keyboard, is that I want out of this. 00:07:03.200 --> 00:07:10.440 This is like, this is, this is, this is Photo Viewer and Windows Picture Viewer. 00:07:10.440 --> 00:07:15.320 I don't know what it's called. The default app for looking at pictures. 00:07:15.320 --> 00:07:19.240 And I can't get out of it. 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.960 Do you need to reset the computer? No, what I need to do is come around. 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:27.720 Come out to the back, step over the light, and grab the backup keyboard. 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.720 Whoa. I know. Crazy, right? 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:36.440 You can have multiple keyboards plugged in. Yeah, boot it up and this, this looks like regular Mario Kart, right? 00:07:36.440 --> 00:07:41.960 Now we're going to go to options, full screen. Now it's, this doesn't look correct, right? 00:07:41.960 --> 00:07:46.360 This looks way more correct. 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:53.960 I unplugged this keyboard before we started doing this, and I've been acting like this 00:07:53.960 --> 00:08:05.200 keyboard isn't working right. Oh. It is working right, because it's not working, and it's also not plugged in. 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:12.520 That is a problem. Now this one ain't working, because I set it up with knockoff controller. 00:08:12.520 --> 00:08:25.320 So I'm pacifying the controller. 00:08:25.320 --> 00:08:30.200 Like all of this is correct, start, start, okay. 00:08:30.200 --> 00:08:33.040 Now it works perfectly when I'm testing it. 00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:42.680 So we've got our N64 emulation going here, and now it all looks pretty normal until we 00:08:42.680 --> 00:08:49.320 go Alt-Enter, and we go into full screen, and you can see this looks pretty close to 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:52.760 correct. We can actually go in and play it. 00:08:52.760 --> 00:08:59.320 I would be using a controller, but it's been making me mad. 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.320 So I'm not. Oh my God. Look at that text. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:06.640 Yeah, the text is unreadable. As soon as you get into a race, though, it looks so good. 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:10.000 Oh my God. Yeah, these look horrible. This needs a texture pack. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.040 Something fierce. Let's go. I don't know, Yoshi, why not? 00:09:14.040 --> 00:09:17.680 Like you can see so much. 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:24.320 And one thing that is kind of cool about this is that when somebody starts to come in and 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:31.800 out of frame, you might be able to catch it with Luigi here, but they actually disappear 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:35.120 before they fully go off the map. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.520 Because this is like, it looks really nice, it's just so hard to show properly. 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:42.880 Yeah, how do you think I feel playing it this close up? 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:47.800 Like your experience with the camera is not unlike the actual experience. 00:09:47.800 --> 00:09:55.280 One thing that Project 64 does super well is that when they were resizing it, they actually 00:09:55.280 --> 00:10:03.600 took the UI into account, which even PC games that kind of officially support this don't 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:08.880 properly take into account. And it's just, it's so nice to see. 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:12.760 Because you can see that, like, you can tell what place you're in here. 00:10:12.760 --> 00:10:17.120 I can see the mini-map. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:23.360 That's not the case on Parcatech. I also noticed you were using the normal keyboard. 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:27.640 Yeah. Well, I didn't want to plug that keyboard back in. 00:10:27.640 --> 00:10:39.240 I mean, it's a neat keyboard, I guess, but the lack of a number row and also F keys, 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.040 surprisingly, makes things frustrating. 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:48.760 Did we mention why we had this keyboard? Oh yeah. Did we mention it in the video? 00:10:48.760 --> 00:10:55.400 We do mention it. I really wish I could remember his name. The name of his company is Piketty, or maybe that's not his company, maybe that's just 00:10:55.400 --> 00:11:00.800 a screen name. I'm sorry, I didn't do enough research on you, but thank you for sending us a keyboard 00:11:00.800 --> 00:11:05.680 for use in this. We will get it sent back to you, I promise. 00:11:05.680 --> 00:11:10.600 This is his personal keyboard that he sent over. 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:15.560 Yeah, yeah, because we found out about it just a little bit too late to actually buy 00:11:15.560 --> 00:11:20.480 one. I think he made a couple hundred of them, maybe a hundred of them. 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:25.520 Buddy, if you're watching this video, please leave a comment down below. 00:11:25.520 --> 00:11:31.840 Oh, should probably censor that email. 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:36.120 The whole email, you just didn't censor it. 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.400 I didn't expect to look at the bottom of it, but yeah, if you look at the far left of the 00:11:39.400 --> 00:11:43.200 keyboard, I think you added in a little do not drop there. Was that just for us? 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:47.040 I think so, but I don't know. Terrible. 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:54.640 Third place. Third place. I would have won if I had have used the Piketty Longboy 7 foot long keyboard, which may or 00:11:54.640 --> 00:11:59.160 may not still be available for purchase, but you probably can do the three foot version. 00:11:59.160 --> 00:12:12.560 You might do another run of them, who knows? What you probably shouldn't purchase is this, unless you really need 3,840 pixels by 600. 00:12:13.560 --> 00:12:17.560 I would like to see how two-player looks like, because I'm assuming it splits in half. 00:12:17.560 --> 00:12:20.560 Oh, you can't. Two players. Right? 00:12:20.560 --> 00:12:24.560 Yeah, that looks like two players. I can't tell. 00:12:24.560 --> 00:12:27.560 Hi, Andy. Are you busy? 00:12:27.560 --> 00:12:30.560 This is awesome. 00:12:30.560 --> 00:12:34.560 Preferable vision, eh? Yeah, nothing but. 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:38.560 For recent games, this is the greatest screen ever. 00:12:38.560 --> 00:12:44.560 You'd think that. It's great if you only want to focus on this part of the screen. 00:12:44.560 --> 00:12:47.560 Anything outside of that, it just gets weird. 00:12:47.560 --> 00:12:52.560 I just want to pay extra. I think I'm only using, like, 10% of the screen. 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:55.560 Oh, what? Did you just shoot yourself? No. 00:12:55.560 --> 00:13:03.560 No, I did nothing. I just gave me a lightning bolt right away, and then when I tried to slow down to crush you. 00:13:03.560 --> 00:13:06.560 It feels like I'm only using, like, 10% of the screen. 00:13:06.560 --> 00:13:09.560 Oh, my God, that's great. 00:13:09.560 --> 00:13:16.560 I'm so used to playing every Mario Kart that's not this one, because this is the second worst Mario Kart. 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:19.560 Wah, wah, wah. 00:13:19.560 --> 00:13:23.560 The screen is great. 00:13:23.560 --> 00:13:28.560 Yeah, no, I was saying, I'm surprised it cut horizontally, so vertically instead of horizontally. 00:13:28.560 --> 00:13:35.560 Like, vertically, if I have this half of the screen, you have that half of the screen, that would be perfect. 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:40.560 Yeah, that would be perfect. Yeah, it really would have been. 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:43.560 I think that's it. If you guys really like this series, please do leave a comment. 00:13:43.560 --> 00:13:48.560 We don't need the interactions. We actually just legitimately want to know whether or not you like it. 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:52.560 Please, please validate me. 00:13:52.560 --> 00:13:53.560 Bye.