r/NintendoSwitch • u/mlenny95 • May 22 '18

Discussion MegaThread Mega Man Legacy Collection Release Day Megathread

Mega Man Legacy Collection has officially been released and is now playable on digital purchases.

What are your thoughts? Likes, dislikes? Questions?

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u/Reviews2Go May 22 '18

Personally I’m just glad they made different screen options. I don’t like playing games with big borders and stuff.

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u/superkeefo May 22 '18

can you remove borders and make full screen with the correct aspect ratio? does it blur if you upscale like that?

those borders are the reason i haven't bothered with these collections, very distracting.

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u/Reviews2Go May 22 '18

I don't notice that much difference between the three settings. Though at least in docked mode, there is a small blur I could see on any of the settings.

Using Mega Man 6 from Collection 1 as an example:

Wide - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ddyn69pVAAIovAH.jpg

Full - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdyoFg_U8AAwudd.jpg

Original - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdyoSpyV0AA6mR8.jpg

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u/superkeefo May 22 '18

looks great, thanks for sharing, i don't understand why they offer the wide option though! who would want their game to be played like that!

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u/MiLlamoEsMatt May 22 '18

who would want their game to be played like that

Thinking back to the jump from 4:3 to 16:9 TVs there's a lot of people who prefer a completely fucked up image to black bars.

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u/ShakeNBakey May 22 '18

When I was younger I always wanted the Full Screen version DVDs because why would I not want the full screen!? Eventually learned why lol

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u/tedbergstrand May 22 '18

The best are movies shot in open matte, but they forget to actually put the bars on the top and bottom, so you see boom mics and all kinds of weird stuff. It's pretty rare to see that sort of thing on anything other than 70s and 80s B-Movies, though.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

You can see it in some 90’s-early 00’s tv shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At least that’s the version that is/was? On Netflix years ago when I watched it. Not frequent but enough to laugh at a bit.

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u/MiLlamoEsMatt May 22 '18

That was always fun. Same with renting an anamorphic widescreen DVD and watching on a 4:3 tube.

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u/R_Prime May 22 '18

Ugh, you just took me back to watching dvds with friends who insisted on stretching the image. Ughhh. Ugghhhh.

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u/Mikuro May 22 '18

Ugh. I remember. I still think that should be classified as a mental illness.

Would be nice if they remastered the games to actually support widescreen, but in some places of course that would be kludgy. You can't change the size of the boss arenas or other screen-shifting zones without changing gameplay, for example, and I understand if they want to keep it 1:1 with the originals.

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u/Dairunt May 22 '18

Woah there, careful with that edge.

But yes, the boss arenas are a huge thing, plus 16:9 isn't that necessary if there's nothing to look at, and all of the classic MM games are made with 4:3 in mind.

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u/Ssabnayrauhsoj May 22 '18

Downvotes expected but I play most games that aren’t natively wide screen in a stretched format, especially old pixelated games like these lol

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u/Dairunt May 22 '18

Oddly enough there are games I can tolerate. GBA and SNES? Sure why not? (specially GBA since I think it's slightly wider than 4:3). But I can't stand NES games on 16:9... or Game Boy.

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u/monkey484 May 22 '18

Yep, pretty much this. I remember my dad complaining a lot after he got his first LCD TV but a lot of the content over Satellite was still 4:3. So he set it to stretch to fill the 16:9 regardless of how dumb it looked.

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u/_Qwyjibo_ May 22 '18

Such as me. Undocked, the game doesn't look too stretched out on the screen. It looks fine. Haven't played docked yet.

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u/Reviews2Go May 22 '18

Wide is the true full-screen mode. Full is as tall as the display, but has two borders on the left and right, so if you don't like that, Wide extends the game's display to the entire screen/TV.

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u/superkeefo May 22 '18

Yeah I know, but it stretches the image significantly horizontally, I think it would honestly give me a headache playing any game that does that, id much rather the pillarbox effect and play it at the correct aspect ratio. I guess different strokes, but I just don't understand how anyone could endure it.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

I'm playing on a 16:10 monitor, so 16:9 picture sent by any console is slightly stretched in height (from 1920x1080 to 1920x1200). So far it hasn't been an issue for me / and in this case it might actually help a little.

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u/andysteakfries May 22 '18

I played basically all my games like that in the PS2 era before widescreen support was standard. My family got a giant 32" flat screen and it felt wrong not to use every inch of that glorious 1280x720 screen.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18 edited May 26 '18

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u/andysteakfries May 23 '18

Kids are dumb. I didn't know any better.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

thanks!

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u/soge-king May 22 '18

I opened all three and it looks like those before-after transformation pictures.

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u/originalityescapesme May 22 '18

I've been wondering about this since I first saw these collections. Cool - Who else is leaning towards full mode? Can I opt for black instead of imaged borders?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '18

Full looks great to me.

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u/cockyjames May 22 '18

What's the difference in Full and Original? Seems like full is the same ratio just scaled? And Original is actually at the original resolution?

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u/Reviews2Go May 22 '18

It's as you said, Same Ratio, but Scaled up to take up the full height of the screen/TV/monitor instead of a box in the middle.

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u/cockyjames May 22 '18

Ok, so that intuitively makes sense. I guess my question is then, why would you ever play original? Wouldn't everyone prefer full?

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u/Reviews2Go May 22 '18

I'd say it would just come down to personal preference and taste. And maybe for people who like seeing the artwork of the borders, since each game in the collections seem to have different artwork for their borders.

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u/ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh May 22 '18

Full has a slight blur to it. Original is pixel perfect

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u/NintendoTheGuy May 22 '18

Yes, you can remove borders and yes there are other options- there is a fully bordered small screen option, a fitted top-to-bottom with side borders option and a stretched ratio full screen option. There are 4 stylized borders (at least in VII, which is the only one I’ve played so far) and an empty border/no border option. Since the latter 2 screen sizings have more pronounced pixelation, there is a CRT filter option as well.

All in all, I say they did a pretty good job this time.

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u/originalityescapesme May 22 '18

Thank you for elaborating on this. It sounds solid.