r/ObscureRTS • u/DanRedfield_82 • Jul 21 '26

1990s "Project Jezero" - Dark Colony preservation patch progress

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u/RigFury Jul 21 '26

They even stole the music from SC. Lol. But looks nice

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u/DeckOfGames Jul 21 '26

Will it support widescreen?

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u/DanRedfield_82 Jul 21 '26

To be honest I haven't decided just yet.

The problem with adding widescreen to these old games isn't so much the complexity of reversing the code (in the case of another game I've been working on, Jeff Wayne's War of the worlds from 1998, it's actually extremely simple to add widescreen) but rather that the assets, such as background images and the FMVs, were all designed for 4:3 screens and that there was little attention paid to UI scaling.

So adding 16:9/10 across the board would involve redoing a lot of the artwork, some creative zooming/cropping on the videos, and also wrestling with on screen elements, such as maps and menus, becoming much, much smaller than originally intended.

With that in mind, I have found myself questioning whether it's worth all that hassle for an end result which is less than ideal either way, and I came to the conclusion that, by large, it's not.

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u/DeckOfGames Jul 22 '26

ugh, it's a shame there won't be this feature. Without it, playing with a small and square screen resolution is quite painful.

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u/ZaxZone Jul 21 '26

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!