I Can't Get Mario Galaxy to be Displayed in 16:9 Aspect Ratio

[pat-rock7]

For some reason, Super Mario Galaxy isn't being displayed in 16:9 for me or that it's stretched out in 4:3.

I made sure that the Wii aspect ratio settings were set to 16:9.

I checked to make sure that other Wii games like Galaxy 2 and Animal Crossing City Folk are being properly displayed this way
and they all are.

However, it's only Galaxy 1 that is still displayed in 4:3 even after changing the Wii's aspect ratio settings.

The only way for me to have it display in widescreen is with Dolphin's built-in Widescreen Hack.
But I don't want to keep enabling the hack on every time I wanna play Galaxy.
Also, stuff like the HUD and title screen are still stretched this way.

It's strange because I've seen YouTube videos of this game being played on Dolphin with the aspect ratio being displayed properly like so.
Like, the HUD and title screen ain't stretched. Everything is displayed properly.

So how come the game's proper aspect ratio works fine for everyone else but not for me?

I'm not sure how else to properly fix this so I hope someone can help me out here.

[MayImilae]

Please show us screenshots of your config Wii tab and your graphics general tab.

[pat-rock7]

(12-14-2021, 03:54 PM)MayImilae Wrote: Please show us screenshots of your config Wii tab and your graphics general tab.

Not sure if they are showing, but here they are.
   
   

[MayImilae]

What happens when you set the Aspect Ratio in the Graphics window to Force 16:9?

[pat-rock7]

(12-15-2021, 03:21 PM)MayImilae Wrote: What happens when you set the Aspect Ratio in the Graphics window to Force 16:9?

When doing that, things are still stretched out.
The ratio's still not displayed properly.

[MayImilae]

Please post a screenshot of the stretched out image you are seeing.

[pat-rock7]

(12-16-2021, 11:05 AM)MayImilae Wrote: Please post a screenshot of the stretched out image you are seeing.

I can't upload the screenshots normally on here.
I have to link them with Google Drive instead.
Hope that these work:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YRRj8G3W26HR_0svEkvWb2eFL70O02py/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iaNfp5O8OIr8EM4uxcf2ihJrliTsmMst/view?usp=sharing

First image has the screen stretched without the widescreen hack on.
Second image has the hack on but the HUD is still stretched.

I tried this in both Stretch to Window and Force 16:9.
Both images look the same in both settings.

[MayImilae]

Ok, I think I know what's going on. Follow these instructions and we'll test my theory.

1. open dolphin and right click mario galaxy in the game list and select "export wii save". Save it somewhere easy to find. Close Dolphin.
2. create a text file named "portable" (with the extension it is portable.txt) in the directory where dolphin's EXE resides.
3. Open Dolphin, you'll see that everything is default. DO NOT CHANGE ANY SETTINGS or add any custom texture packs. The only exception is controls, go to the controllers panel and make sure a nunchuk is set for the extension. Note the controls or change them if you want, but you won't need much for this testing and any configuration you do here will be blown away later. Again, do not touch anything else and move on to the next step, even if you think it is innocuous, don't touch anything else please.
4. Use Open and select your ISO of mario galaxy, and run it. Note that your save is not there. Close the game. (we have to run it once for the next step, keep going)
5. In the menu bar, go to Tools > Import Wii Save and import your mario galaxy save from earlier.
6. Run the game, your save should be there. Open a level that shows the hud, and take a screenshot. We'll call that "Screenshot 1". Keep that to post here on the forum later.
7. Close Dolphin. Again, do not touch any settings. Now navigate to your custom user directory (default [username]/Documents/Dolphin Emulator) and copy the Load folder to your clipboard. Go back to where your Dolphin exe is and note the new User folder there. Open it and you'll find the same structure that you found in the global user directory. Paste the Load folder from your clipboard over the one here, and this should move a bunch of files. This is where the custom textures you have installed live, and now they live in the user folder too.
8. Load Dolphin. Go to Graphics > Advanced and Enable Custom Texture. DO NOT CHANGE ANY OTHER SETTINGS AND CLOSE THE GRAPHICS WINDOW. (you would not believe how many people change settings in this step and mess this kind of stuff up, just do nothing else ok)
9. Run Mario Galaxy, and get to a spot with the HUD. Take a screenshot there, let's call it Screenshot 2.
10. Post Screenshot 1 and Screenshot 2 here on the forum and let's see your results.

Once you are sure you no longer need this test setup and want to restore your original configuration and settings, just delete Portable.txt. You can also delete the User folder if you so please, but once portable.txt is removed Dolphin will no longer use it.

[pat-rock7]

(12-16-2021, 09:04 PM)MayImilae Wrote: Ok, I think I know what's going on. Follow these instructions and we'll test my theory.

1. open dolphin and right click mario galaxy in the game list and select "export wii save". Save it somewhere easy to find. Close Dolphin.
2. create a text file named "portable" (with the extension it is portable.txt) in the directory where dolphin's EXE resides.
3. Open Dolphin, you'll see that everything is default. DO NOT CHANGE ANY SETTINGS or add any custom texture packs. The only exception is controls, go to the controllers panel and make sure a nunchuk is set for the extension. Note the controls or change them if you want, but you won't need much for this testing and any configuration you do here will be blown away later. Again, do not touch anything else and move on to the next step, even if you think it is innocuous, don't touch anything else please.
4. Use Open and select your ISO of mario galaxy, and run it. Note that your save is not there. Close the game. (we have to run it once for the next step, keep going)
5. In the menu bar, go to Tools > Import Wii Save and import your mario galaxy save from earlier.
6. Run the game, your save should be there. Open a level that shows the hud, and take a screenshot. We'll call that "Screenshot 1". Keep that to post here on the forum later.
7. Close Dolphin. Again, do not touch any settings. Now navigate to your custom user directory (default [username]/Documents/Dolphin Emulator) and copy the Load folder to your clipboard. Go back to where your Dolphin exe is and note the new User folder there. Open it and you'll find the same structure that you found in the global user directory. Paste the Load folder from your clipboard over the one here, and this should move a bunch of files. This is where the custom textures you have installed live, and now they live in the user folder too.
8. Load Dolphin. Go to Graphics > Advanced and Enable Custom Texture. DO NOT CHANGE ANY OTHER SETTINGS AND CLOSE THE GRAPHICS WINDOW. (you would not believe how many people change settings in this step and mess this kind of stuff up, just do nothing else ok)  
9. Run Mario Galaxy, and get to a spot with the HUD. Take a screenshot there, let's call it Screenshot 2.
10. Post Screenshot 1 and Screenshot 2 here on the forum and let's see your results.

Once you are sure you no longer need this test setup and want to restore your original configuration and settings, just delete Portable.txt. You can also delete the User folder if you so please, but once portable.txt is removed Dolphin will no longer use it.

Everything works like so.
The aspect ratio is in the proper format this way.
Both custom textures on and off.

   
   

However, I noticed that this only works with the portable.txt file in the exe folder.
When removing the text file to restore all my original configs, the game's aspect ratio is back to being all stretched out again.

So I guess this theory doesn't properly fix this situation since I can't keep all my configurations this way.

Isn't there another way to fix the aspect ratio all the while making sure all my configs and game saves aren't tampered or erased?

[MayImilae]

Are you using any cheats? Aspect ratios can be changed by cheats, so with your normal config, make sure Enable Cheats is turned off and try it.

EDIT: Also disable Render to Main Window, check that.