Running uninstalled WADS sounds pretty useful, although nowadays you have Emunand and Neek to run pretty much everything.
About forcing things into WADS, I remember blackbox fixed forcing video settings onto digital titles on one of the later versions of USB Loader GX, although it may be more specifically for Progressive Scan, I don't remember.
My first idea was to make patches for the WADs, but they end up always being larger than the WAD itself, so that's pointless.
I agree on having all of this written on a single place. Maybe we could create a Wiki here. MANY useful things hidden on these forums...
About 8:7 GC games, it's the first time I hear about it. I know about 8:7 VS 4:3 in older systems (NES, SNES, PC-Engine, part of the library of the Mega Drive, etc) and I wholeheartedly sit on the 8:7 camp there, but for systems after that I thought 320x224 was the usual thing for 5th gen systems and 640x480 for GC, Dreamcast and Xbox (PS2 is very often a weird 512x448, but PS2 is a bit of a mess from what I've read and experienced myself).
There's an option for width on Nintendont but I've never touched it, it has been siting on "640" for the entire time I've used it.
About HDMi solutions on the Wii, I only tried a generic Wii2HDMI which didn't end up being the horror stories other people find, and of course it just outputs 480p, it doesn't "upscale" like some other fancier peripherals. Slightly brighter picture but everything else was fine, but since then I've been using components to the OSSC.
I'm on the look for a good component cable too, but whenever I read opinions on the more popular ones I always come out unsure of what to do.
About forcing things into WADS, I remember blackbox fixed forcing video settings onto digital titles on one of the later versions of USB Loader GX, although it may be more specifically for Progressive Scan, I don't remember.
My first idea was to make patches for the WADs, but they end up always being larger than the WAD itself, so that's pointless.
I agree on having all of this written on a single place. Maybe we could create a Wiki here. MANY useful things hidden on these forums...
About 8:7 GC games, it's the first time I hear about it. I know about 8:7 VS 4:3 in older systems (NES, SNES, PC-Engine, part of the library of the Mega Drive, etc) and I wholeheartedly sit on the 8:7 camp there, but for systems after that I thought 320x224 was the usual thing for 5th gen systems and 640x480 for GC, Dreamcast and Xbox (PS2 is very often a weird 512x448, but PS2 is a bit of a mess from what I've read and experienced myself).
There's an option for width on Nintendont but I've never touched it, it has been siting on "640" for the entire time I've used it.
About HDMi solutions on the Wii, I only tried a generic Wii2HDMI which didn't end up being the horror stories other people find, and of course it just outputs 480p, it doesn't "upscale" like some other fancier peripherals. Slightly brighter picture but everything else was fine, but since then I've been using components to the OSSC.
I'm on the look for a good component cable too, but whenever I read opinions on the more popular ones I always come out unsure of what to do.