>
> > I remember seeing arcade machines of SF2 at different aspects ratio, so I
> > suspected there was some amount of configurability with arcade monitors...
>
> Same goes for Neo Geo games, really. In some of the custom MAME builds people
> rolled, they'd "correct" the resolution of some of the games to discard the
> garbage on the side of the screen when in reality it was always there to begin
> with and arcade operators were expected to adjust it off the screen.
>
> Since MAME takes pixel perfect screenshots it doesn't really help kill off the
> aspect ratio confusion (look at the CPS2 shots on MAWS, for example), which is
> another reason why I so strongly advocate using a program like FRAPS for
> snagging screenshots within emulators.
>
> too long; didn't read version: My wife picked up Cooking Mama today for DS
> instead of picking up food to actually cook, so I'm eating a soy bean burger on
> a piece of white toast with a glass of pink lemonade for dinner.
>
>

I once owned a cab with 16:9 screen, came with neogeo MVS - never found out what games were supposed to run on that in 16:9 though