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Xenogears nerd/fan-artist/preservationist/modder?🤔...artist.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
lol I thought about it right as I came upon him, but no I'm not much of a speedrunner myself, I don't even remember how that skip goes exactly
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
i can finally be thoroughly unbothered by it all
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
And now I'll never have to fuss about this again!
This'll be the next update to the portraits/UI textures mod.
Full cleaned up portraits, no cropping, no ever *ever* so slight blurring due to the very nature of what stretching to accommodate aspect ratios do to image quality.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
and BAM
unstretched, uncropped XG portraits at what I do believe is the proper Xenogears aspect ratio.

And for those who don't mind it being a tad off (I know some people subject themselves to widescreen 💀) and want easy windowed/fullscreen switching, 3:2 isn't bad at all.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Note: it would affect your windowed vs fullscreen switching experience, but if you dont switch very often then just match the size to whatever you want.

Then if you're using fullscreen set Custom Aspect Ratio (X Position) so that it sits in the middle of your screen.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
If you have a higher or lower resolution, just take the ratio of 1590x1080, 53:36, and edit it so it fits your screen vertically.

So if you have 1440p rather than 1080p, yours would be 2120x1440, I do believe.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
BUT if you wanna get EXACT with it, I think I got it.
My resolution is 1920x1080, which Im sure is still the most widely used?
Fitting it vertically to 1080, the setting to set in retroarch to get the proper Xenogears aspect ratio would be-
Settings>Video>Scaling>Aspect Ratio>Custom set to 1590x1080
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
this game has so much atmosphere. i love how it utilizes 3D models and effects. it was such a great time for sprite-based games of the early 3D era. and they hold up so well today.
classic and metroidvania castlevania has my heart.
a pixel art of a man standing on a balcony in front of a clock
ALT: a pixel art of a man standing on a balcony in front of a clock
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November 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
how i feel every time i execute all of these spells i was never really able to in the past on a keyboard
a pixel art of a person holding a sword with the words laser robotomy on the bottom right
ALT: a pixel art of a person holding a sword with the words laser robotomy on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
(I SWEAR it was unintentional, I just wanted to draw bunny suit Elly. The whip just happened bc it was Bart's room)
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
(it and its implied kink rp lmao smh)
(I didn't even intend for it though, it just happened along the way and then I was like, oops- surprise domme Elly straight outta the 4koma)
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The first one FINISHED in 2025? oh, I can't show *that one* here. 😂 Next!
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
At first I thought this was a semi-common misspelling I see sometimes of Elly from Xenogears considering the other Xeno deuteragonist here and for some reason she was just wearing clothes from 20XX lol
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I jumped right into controlling Alucard like
⭕🔺⭕🔺⭕🔺⭕🔺⭕🔺⭕🔺⭕🔺
😂
It's the only speedrunning thing I implement in normal gameplay
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Ahhhh, thank you!
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is my first time playing SotN on any PS hardware. With a proper controller now, too, so the combos are actually feasible. Like wow, the combos just work. Trying to do it with a keyboard is impossible lol
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
@cosmicscale.bsky.social
This whole above thread & its quoted thread, if this has anything to do with anything wrong on your end idk.
Ive still got my XG modding/texture replacing on my PC so this doesn't ruin it for me.

Tysm for putting this all together, it's really such a big upgrade to the ps2
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Okay yeah, it's purely a Xenogears issue running it on here. Or well, an emulation issue with the game in general, anyway
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Getting past the text crawl.

One thing every version has had is at the end of the confirm selection sound when selecting New Game it freezes the audio at the end and is a loud SSSSSSSHHHHHH sound until you skip past the opening and it starts playing Bonds of Sea and Fire
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM