Black bars retained w/force 16:9

[MuteMustard]

Hey there. First poster here, so lmk if I did something horribly wrong. I've been revisiting NFS Carbon (gamecube version) for a little nostalgia trip, and noticed that while using the widescreen option from the in-game menus and "force 16:9," the game retains black bars on the side in fullscreen. I'm assuming this is just a result of the game's setting just not being widescreen enough? But if there's some somewhat simple remedy I'm not aware of, it would be appreciated, lol. Example below?

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[JosJuice]

Your image attachment doesn't seem to work for me for some reason, but yeah, essentially all GameCube and Wii games run at an aspect ratio that's slightly different from 4:3 or 16:9. What you can do if you want to is to crop or stretch the image using Dolphin's graphics settings. (Cropping is close to what you would have experienced on a TV back in the day.)

[MuteMustard]

(04-23-2020, 05:34 PM)JosJuice Wrote: Your image attachment doesn't seem to work for me for some reason, but yeah, essentially all GameCube and Wii games run at an aspect ratio that's slightly different from 4:3 or 16:9. What you can do if you want to is to crop or stretch the image using Dolphin's graphics settings. (Cropping is close to what you would have experienced on a TV back in the day.)

It seems my suspicions have been confirmed. Thanks for the help!