Rose

Omikron: The Nomad Soul widescreen and wider solution

Added 2022-01-05 00:09:31 +0000 UTC

Original post:
It's been a really hard day, hasn't it? Some hours after I published The Pedestrian solution, there was a request for a solution for Omikron: The Nomad Soul. I got on it and have been ever since. The first proper widescreen solution for the first Quantic Dream game in 22 years? Why, yes! Let's keep making history together :)

All the flair aside, I still need to test it further, clean up the solution and package it. Hopefully tomorrow and hopefully without any serious issues that would force me to abandon it!

Update:
The two-part solution is now released! Although none of the components of the fix really require dgVoodoo - so they could work for someone running natively - the game tends to refuse to run on modern systems or it fails to recognize modern resolutions, making the dgVoodoo wrapper a great tool already recommended online.

As for my work, I was happy to have found the path to the FOV rather quickly after launching the game for the first time, but then I spent the next hours finding a way to reliably unstretch the game without hardcoding and to calculate the field of view for perfect vertical parity with 4:3. The outcome is up to the current standard of most of my latest fixes. It recognizes the selected game resolution and does all the calculations on the fly, even if the user decides to switch to a different aspect ratio when playing. It is part of what made the implementation so hard but I think it's worth it.