Best screen option settings for 360 shmups on 1080P HDTV?

[MrOldSchoolCool]

I'm trying to figure out what I should set Mushi, Espgaluda II, and Muchi Muchi to with my HDTV. I can put it in tate mode. When I flip it in the menu options, the screen is still as small as it was in non-tate mode. You then are able to zoom in but is this distorting the resolution?

[hermit crab]

I believe it's called scaling rather than distortion, but yes you're correct.

Personally I just play them with the default settings (no tate). The screen is so big anyway, doesn't matter if all of its area doesn't get used. These are games for small low resolution 4:3 monitors and we're playing them on large high resolution 16:9 monitors...

[Fudoh]

These are games for small low resolution 4:3 monitors

up close 29" on a candy cab aren't this small. You need a 52" inch screen in Yoko to get the same size. So, if one uses a 27" PC monitor, tating it still very worth the while.

[hermit crab]

True but 1080P HDTV's are often big.

My options are a 32" LCD and a 21" CRT. Screen height is exactly the same for both (~40cm).

[MrOldSchoolCool]

But aren't the resolutions higher in the 360 modes?

[hermit crab]

Higher yeah but not the full 1080P. I guess it's what you see when the scaling/zoom is set to 100?

I only have Espgaluda II from those. Dunno what they've done with that though. The arcade version with zoom at 100 is the same size as the Xbox version, but the Xbox version clearly has more detailed graphics. I suppose they pre-scaled the arcade version for us? On Deathsmiles the arcade mode is played in a much smaller window than the Xbox mode with both @100.

[hail good sir]

For tate I think I saw 83% or 183% or whatever it would be, thrown around here recently as a good zoom to minimize scaling weirdness. Or maybe it was 86. Personally I just zoom it right to the edge of the screen.