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Bananamatic

Fullscreen or windowed?
« on: October 17, 2009, 02:32:38 PM »
Just wondering how does everyone play.

Windowed 640x480 for me, since I can see almost the entire screen at once.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2009, 02:45:30 PM »
Fullscreen for me!  ;D
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Lloyd Dunamis

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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2009, 02:46:13 PM »
Fullscreen. For me, bigger screen filled is nice for focus-grazing through small-spaced patterns.

For the resolution (SA and UFO, right?), it's always 640x480, just to stick with the default pixels (though I really can't play SA and UFO under a Win98 system - I just rent a WinXP on a NetCafe).

I'd appreciate the screen much more if I were playing at like 5-6 meters away from it, just like how console games are played in TV (comboed with joypad usage), for the same reason of seeing the entire screen with quick eye focus change.
... Playing like this feels much different from playing windowed with 1meter-ish distance, BTW.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2009, 02:47:20 PM »
Fullscreen when playing seriously, windowed when playing for fun.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2009, 03:06:46 PM »
The only games I ever use seriously use windowed in are the PC-98 games. Recently I've started using Full-Screen for them sometimes, but then the shots become incredibly distracting against certain backrounds...

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Formless God

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2009, 03:23:27 PM »
I don't even want to remember what happened after I played MoF windowed for two hours (Stage 6 Lunatic + Extra).

VoWG and Froggy Braves the Elements brutally rapes your eyes =/
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Bananamatic

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 03:28:24 PM »
Quote from: Formless God on October 17, 2009, 03:23:27 PM
I don't even want to remember what happened after I played MoF windowed for two hours (Stage 6 Lunatic + Extra).

VoWG and Froggy Braves the Elements brutally rapes your eyes =/
wait
I've NEVER played fullscreen
period

VoWG didn't hurt my eyes at all.....1 round of Dodonpachi is 10 times worse.

Maybe I'll play better once I switch to fullscreen. :V
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Formless God

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2009, 03:29:28 PM »
Windowed, on a 1440x900 widescreen monitor.
You've got to try it >_>
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Matsuri

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2009, 03:30:43 PM »
I never play windowed. Watching an entire screen when playing a shooting game is suicide. My strategy for playing involves shutting out stuff that doesn't matter and relying a little more on reflex than foresight. *shrug*
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2009, 03:34:55 PM »
Quote from: Bananamatic on October 17, 2009, 03:28:24 PM
I've NEVER played fullscreen


holy hell man


when i first got the games i didn't realize there was a fullscreen mode, but when i found out i was all over that shit.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2009, 03:36:34 PM »
The first game I got was Mountain of Faith, and the version I had was fullscreen by default. When I discovered windowed mode I was ecstatic. It's how I play all of them.

I might give fullscreen a day in court, though, and see if my gameplay improves.
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Bananamatic

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2009, 03:49:41 PM »
Looking back, I should stop complaining about BoWaP and start playing fullscreen :V
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Esoterica

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2009, 04:01:45 PM »
Fullscreen, though on the newer games I play windowed to reduce the terrible lag I get in them by a bit.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2009, 04:07:37 PM »
Windowed with a high resolution, because I have a wide screen monitor.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2009, 04:13:42 PM »
Sometimes I feel like it's kind of cheating when I'm playing over 640x480 resolution.
But I find myself dodging some things better on 960x720 windowed like Miracle Fruit (gone from ~10% capture rate to being able to capture it most of the time @_@!), so I'm using 960x720 all the time on SA/UFO XD.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2009, 04:24:45 PM »
I always play fullscreen as well. However when i'm playing netplay games I window (PoFV, SWR/UNL) so i can chat with my partner and whatnot.
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PostCrisisJ2

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2009, 04:50:30 PM »
I have no choice but to play the games in fullscreen, because for some reason the games actually have trouble running in windowed mode on my comp. Even if I did, I'd always go fullscreen.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2009, 05:20:44 PM »
I've always played fullscreen, but I discovered that I did better when playing windowed PoDD last night. It could just have been that I needed a warm-up or to get the game mechanics down, but I'm gonna experiment with it a little bit.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2009, 05:24:17 PM »
Jeez people. Windowed, and either Vsync'd or Sizer'd to 960x720.
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ebarrett

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2009, 05:24:34 PM »
Fullscreen except for SWR(S) and for recording the PC-98 games.
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Cadmas

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2009, 05:28:47 PM »
Maxed for windows games and windowed for pc-98.
I haven't learned how to max pc-98 games yet.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2009, 05:35:18 PM »
Quote from: Cadmas on October 17, 2009, 05:28:47 PM
I haven't learned how to max pc-98 games yet.

Alt+Enter, unless you've got a totally different emulator...
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2009, 06:02:04 PM »
Always fullscreen, despite that since I have a 1440x900 monitor everything gets stretched sideways. :V
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Bananamatic

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2009, 06:09:39 PM »
960x720 seems like the best option for me :V

Switching back to 640x480 made me wonder how the hell did I manage to play it like that.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #24 on: October 17, 2009, 08:07:43 PM »
I use fullscreen most of the time and change my resolution when I'm using windowed. The only time I use windowed mode is when I play SA or UFO due to the incredible amount of lag I get from both of them.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2009, 08:14:08 PM »
Fullscreen when I know I won't be interupted. Windowed when I might be interupted.
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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2009, 08:31:26 PM »
I never play windowed, except when before I knew how to play PC-98 full screen (*shivers at the bad memories of spending weeks beating Evil Eye Sigma windowed*). The gaps look nonexistent when you play that way.
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jisakujien

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2009, 08:50:09 PM »

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Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #28 on: October 17, 2009, 09:34:02 PM »
Fullscreen looks stretched and ugly on a 16:9 monitor. Windowed, no exceptions.
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Tinari

Re: Fullscreen or windowed?
« Reply #29 on: October 17, 2009, 10:03:50 PM »
Windowed at my laptops native resolution to eliminate part of the blurring.  Still have stretching but it's better than stretching AND blurring.
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