...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Border-Occupying Decorations
- 271 statements
- 52 feature instances
- 44 referencing feature instances
| Border-Occupying Decorations | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | label |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | page |
BorderOccupyingDecorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | comment |
When the game is too small to fit the whole screen, the developers need to fill it with something. Unless they just go with black bars. In the early days, when processing power was limited, it was not always possible to fill the screen with the action of the game. The main window had to be reduced in size, and something was needed to fill the extra space. In some cases, the best the programmers could come up with was to place the game logo and an abbreviated set of instructions in the remaining space. This was also common for ports to home systems of games designed for a tall screen. During the 1990s and the 2000s, this was done for accessories that let players play handheld games on the TV screen, like the Super Game Boy for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy Player for the Nintendo GameCube. They would both have a selection of premade borders, but the former would also theme designs for games made with such functionality in mind (potentially changing based on location or other factors). With the Nintendo DS's and Nintendo 3DS's touch screen and other gimmicks making such accessories impossible, or their aspect ratios also going widescreen like with the PlayStation Portable and Play Station Vita, or just straight-up hybrid consoles like the Nintendo Switch, doing so became pointless. Today, this is frequently used for emulators and modern ports of older game systems, due to their screens not properly fitting on modern widescreen displays. This often results in a border surrounding the sides, mostly from left and right but sometimes from above and below as well. The border usually incorporates some elements from the game, like the characters or locations, similar to a wallpaper. Developers usually offer players the option to scale the game to fit both the top and the bottom or just go widescreen, but as the aspect ratio change makes the game look distorted, many players consider it a suboptimal solution. Note that this does not include cases where the developers put the stats, menu, and interface on the extra space, as is often done with vertical Shoot 'Em Up games. This is purely about non-gameplay affecting decorations related to the game. |
|
| Border-Occupying Decorations | fetched |
2024-03-25T16:32:29Z | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | parsed |
2024-03-25T16:32:29Z | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | processingComment |
Dropped link to KirbysDreamCollection: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | processingComment |
Dropped link to LetsPlay: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | processingComment |
Dropped link to ScreenCrunch: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | processingUnknown |
Kirby's Dream Collection (Video Game) | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_17b0b964 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_17b0b964 | comment |
Quest: Brian's Journey: Playing on the Super Game Boy makes the game fill the borders with many copies of the Quest (or Holy Magic Century if you're playing the Japanese version) logo and two pictures of Brian. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_17b0b964 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_17b0b964 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quest: Brian's Journey (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_17b0b964 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_256c8a06 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_256c8a06 | comment |
Wario Land II sports a custom Super Game Boy border depicting Wario and his riches at the top as well as the location he's currently in filling the rest. If you're playing the Flagman D-D minigame, it uses a Game & Watch console as its background. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_256c8a06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_256c8a06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wario Land II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_256c8a06 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_26333bd5 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_26333bd5 | comment |
Kirby's Adventure: The 3D Classics release has a pink-white border and the logo in the bottom-right corner. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_26333bd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_26333bd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kirby's Adventure (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_26333bd5 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_289484d9 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_289484d9 | comment |
Bloons Tower Defense 5: Playing the Steam version at a wide aspect ratio gives the game a border with eight artworks of various towers. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_289484d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_289484d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bloons Tower Defense (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_289484d9 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2949e22a | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2949e22a | comment |
Puyo Puyo (1992): The SEGA AGES release has a border with artworks of Arle, Carbuncle, the opponents, and the Puyos. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2949e22a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2949e22a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Puyo Puyo (1992) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2949e22a | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2cc3919a | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2cc3919a | comment |
Shuihuzhuan: Liangshan Yingxiong: In the initial version, the screen is badly compressed within a bronze Oriental-style frame (with the stage's title written on top), probably due to it being a low-budget game. A re-release a year later removed the frame. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2cc3919a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2cc3919a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shuihuzhuan: Liangshan Yingxiong (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_2cc3919a | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_33acebd8 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_33acebd8 | comment |
Guilty Gear wasn't designed for a 16:9 aspect ratio until Xrd. Thus, ports of older entries to widescreen systems, such as the PlayStation Portable, Play Station Vita, and HD systems added decorative sidebars to keep the fighting in a 4:3 aspect ratio. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_33acebd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_33acebd8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guilty Gear (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_33acebd8 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_36395288 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_36395288 | comment |
Kirby: Kirby's Adventure: The 3D Classics release has a pink-white border and the logo in the bottom-right corner. Kirby's Dream Land 2 features a custom Super Game Boy border depicting Kirby, Rick, Coo, and Kine against a green checkerboard backdrop. Kirby's Dream Collection: The game features emulated versions of Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Adventure, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Because Dream Land and Dream Land 2 were Game Boy titles, they're too small to fill up even a 4:3 monitor; consequently, playing these games brings up a specially-designed border depicting sprites from them against a pink backdrop. A baby blue version of this border is also used when playing Adventure, Super Star, Dream Land 3, and 64 on a 16:9 display (as they were designed for a 4:3 one). |
|
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_36395288 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_36395288 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kirby (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_36395288 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_3ad399b5 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_3ad399b5 | comment |
The first three Game & Watch Gallery games feature dynamic Super Game Boy borders based around the various included games. Playing them in modern mode presents borders depicting lush landscapes, many of which imitate the visual style of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Playing them in classic mode, however, bring up borders based on the original Game & Watch devices. The original Game Boy Gallery, meanwhile, only features the Classic borders. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_3ad399b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_3ad399b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Game & Watch Gallery (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_3ad399b5 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_42ddc097 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_42ddc097 | comment |
MacVenture: The 8-Bit Adventure Anthology release of the games adds a border related to their setting on the sides (skeletons in the halls for Shadowgate, city buildings for Déjà Vu (1985), chapel walls and candelabras for Uninvited). | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_42ddc097 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_42ddc097 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| MacVenture (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_42ddc097 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_43f8aad7 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_43f8aad7 | comment |
The Donkey Kong Land games feature their own custom borders when playing the games on a Super Game Boy, done in the pre-rendered pseudo-CG style of the SNES games. The first game features a row of palm trees, the second game features a wall of bananas, and the third game features a wall of stopwatches (which serve as the game's main collectible). | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_43f8aad7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_43f8aad7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Kong Land (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_43f8aad7 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_4e3739c3 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_4e3739c3 | comment |
Beauty and the Beast: A Board Game Adventure: Playing on the Super Game Boy gives the game a border of the castle walls and roses. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_4e3739c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_4e3739c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Beauty and the Beast: A Board Game Adventure (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_4e3739c3 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_563d9c1a | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_563d9c1a | comment |
Killer Instinct: Playing the Game Boy release on the Super Game Boy makes the border a purple void with Spinal in the top-left, Fulgore on the right, and Orchid in the bottom-left. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_563d9c1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_563d9c1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Killer Instinct (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_563d9c1a | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5afbc0cb | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5afbc0cb | comment |
Undertale: There are several border options on consoles, thanks to the game using a 4:3 display as part of its retraux aesthetic. The dynamic option switches it based on the location the player character is in. There are also several optional borders unlocked for doing specific tasks, but those depend on the version. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5afbc0cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5afbc0cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Undertale (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5afbc0cb | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5b530443 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5b530443 | comment |
Since Mario Party 8 was designed for 4:3 televisions, with only a small amount of game modes supporting 16:9 displays, the original release features decorative borders with a blue tartan pattern if the Wii's display mode is set to 16:9. The borders were removed on later copies after players complained that the patterns caused screen burn-in. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5b530443 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5b530443 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mario Party 8 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_5b530443 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_64cb4245 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_64cb4245 | comment |
Caillou was originally made in 4:3 before making the jump to 16:9 widescreen HD. Individual segments were typically only around 4-6 minutes long, so episodes of the show were typically made of several segments grouped together around a particular theme from a mix of new and old material. Therefore, later episodes presented in HD would show the older segments in letterbox format with colorful, child's wallpaper-type decorations in the borders. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_64cb4245 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_64cb4245 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Caillou | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_64cb4245 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_6d10ab06 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_6d10ab06 | comment |
Mortal Kombat 4: Playing the Game Boy release on the Super Game Boy puts four skulls on the sides and the game's logo at the top. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_6d10ab06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_6d10ab06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mortal Kombat 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_6d10ab06 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_74c5b2f3 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_74c5b2f3 | comment |
Nintendo Wars: Playing Game Boy Wars Turbo and Game Boy Wars 2 on the Super Game Boy gives the game a border with a sepia map of the game world, with the latter also showing some units. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_74c5b2f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_74c5b2f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nintendo Wars (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_74c5b2f3 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7a93a957 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7a93a957 | comment |
The Sonic N release of the first game of the Sonic Advance Trilogy lets players choose between the N-Gage's unusual 11:13 and a scaled-down 4:3 ratio. For the latter, the game fills the borders with blue, plus Sonic and his name at the top. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7a93a957 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7a93a957 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic Advance Trilogy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7a93a957 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7fb486bc | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7fb486bc | comment |
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Playing the DX version on the Super Game Boy (not an optimal way to play due to the Color Dungeon) gives the game a border that shows Koholint Island, the sea, and the sky. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7fb486bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7fb486bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_7fb486bc | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_838a74f1 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_838a74f1 | comment |
Kirby's Block Ball features a custom Super Game Boy border depicting King Dedede and Kirby's Spark, Burning, Needle, and Stone abilities against a lavender checkerboard. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_838a74f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_838a74f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kirby's Block Ball (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_838a74f1 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_87b4dc3c | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_87b4dc3c | comment |
Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong '94: Playing on the Super Game Boy fills the borders with a cabinet that resembles the original arcade, but with small tweaks to use colorized in-game graphics instead. The Donkey Kong Land games feature their own custom borders when playing the games on a Super Game Boy, done in the pre-rendered pseudo-CG style of the SNES games. The first game features a row of palm trees, the second game features a wall of bananas, and the third game features a wall of stopwatches (which serve as the game's main collectible). |
|
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_87b4dc3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_87b4dc3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Kong (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_87b4dc3c | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_89541127 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_89541127 | comment |
Twinbee: The 3D Classics release fills leftover space thanks to the 3DS's larger screen ratio with a red curtain. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_89541127 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_89541127 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TwinBee (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_89541127 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8a0f6ee7 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8a0f6ee7 | comment |
Donkey Kong '94: Playing on the Super Game Boy fills the borders with a cabinet that resembles the original arcade, but with small tweaks to use colorized in-game graphics instead. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8a0f6ee7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8a0f6ee7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Kong '94 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8a0f6ee7 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8da0ea80 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8da0ea80 | comment |
The Generation I games and the early Generation II games feature custom borders when playing on a Super Game Boy. Red, Green, and Blue feature various Pokémon against a backdrop whose color matches that of the game's titlenote going clockwise from top-left, Red features Pidgey, Clefairy, Rhydon, and Kangaskhan; Green features Shellder, Pikachu, Kangaskhan, and Rhydon; Blue features Charmander, Squirtle, a pair of Poké Balls, and Bulbasaur. Yellow features various Pikachu playing against a green backdrop. Gold and Silver feature a Poké Ball pattern against a colored backdrop matching the game's title. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8da0ea80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8da0ea80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8da0ea80 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8f32d08e | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8f32d08e | comment |
RAY Series: The Windows 95 port of RayForce has the game's HUD move to the right side of the screen due to the game screen itself being screen crunched to fit in a 640x480 display resolution, with decorative borders separating the players' score, lives, and lock-on indicators, while the high-score in the middle between the two players. The Ray'z Arcade Chronology compilation features optional border artwork based on the respective games to fill the unused space along with real-time gameplay data and information gadgets. |
|
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8f32d08e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8f32d08e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| RAY Series (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_8f32d08e | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9124e931 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9124e931 | comment |
Arcana Heart 3 was one of the last fighting games designed for a 4:3 aspect ratio SD display. The Playstation 3 releases added animated sidebars to preserve this aspect ratio when playing on a widescreen HD display, along with a trophy for seeing all possible variants of the sidebar animations. Averted in the eventual Steam release, which was instead rebalanced for widescreen play. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9124e931 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9124e931 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Arcana Heart (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9124e931 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_916f87f3 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_916f87f3 | comment |
Radiant Silvergun: The HD ports of the game features decorative wallpapers to occupy the sides of the screen due to the game being pillarboxed to a 16:9 while the game screen is still 4:3 with the option to replace the original pixel art HUD with an HD one that also keeps track of color chains and weapon levels. In single player games, the right side of the screen also features an in-game reference sheet for the buttons and their corresponding weapons. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_916f87f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_916f87f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Radiant Silvergun (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_916f87f3 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_921a667d | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_921a667d | comment |
The Pokémon Stadium games include a Game Boy Tower feature, which allows the player to use the Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak to play the mainline games in Super Game Boy mode, complete with custom borders. Pokémon Crystal is incompatible with the Super Game Boy, but is compatible with the Game Boy Tower; as such, it uses the Super Game Boy's default border. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_921a667d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_921a667d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon Stadium (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_921a667d | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9514b4e3 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9514b4e3 | comment |
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior has decorative snakes on the left and right. The snake's heads are animated when the player takes a hit, and the rest of the top border has functional elements. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9514b4e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9514b4e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9514b4e3 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_970b8e1a | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_970b8e1a | comment |
Blackthorne: In the MS-DOS version of the game, the sprite and tile graphics were based on those used in the SNES versionnote though blood was censored out of the SNES ones, and had the same sizes as measured in pixels. However, whereas the SNES version ran using a screen resolution of 256 × 224, the MS-DOS version ran using a 320 × 240 screen resolution instead, leaving a thin border at the bottom of the screen and a much wider border at the right side of the screen.note In 2D games with screen-scrolling (especially ones that are capable of diagonal scrolling), another way to handle different screen resolutions would be to increase or decrease the field-of-view along with the screen resolution. However, that would not have been possible for Blackthorne, because it uses pure one-screen-at-a-time screen-flipping in both the horizontal and vertical directions rather than scrolling. The MS-DOS version displayed the item inventory within the right-side border and the name of the currently-selected item within the lower border, whereas the SNES version (which didn't have any on-screen borders) put the item inventory in a menu that was accessible by pressing the Select button but which was not visible the rest of the time. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_970b8e1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_970b8e1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blackthorne (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_970b8e1a | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9764d183 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9764d183 | comment |
The Disney Afternoon Collection by Capcom puts the selected game's box art (with a specific color filter for each) in the background. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9764d183 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9764d183 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Disney Afternoon | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9764d183 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9b602c3f | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9b602c3f | comment |
Deltarune: Console releases feature a decorative border around the screen, thanks to the game using a 4:3 display as part of its retraux aesthetic. The border's contents dynamically change based on what area of the game the player is in. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9b602c3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9b602c3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deltarune (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9b602c3f | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
Pokémon: The Generation I games and the early Generation II games feature custom borders when playing on a Super Game Boy. Red, Green, and Blue feature various Pokémon against a backdrop whose color matches that of the game's titlenote going clockwise from top-left, Red features Pidgey, Clefairy, Rhydon, and Kangaskhan; Green features Shellder, Pikachu, Kangaskhan, and Rhydon; Blue features Charmander, Squirtle, a pair of Poké Balls, and Bulbasaur. Yellow features various Pikachu playing against a green backdrop. Gold and Silver feature a Poké Ball pattern against a colored backdrop matching the game's title. The Pokémon Stadium games include a Game Boy Tower feature, which allows the player to use the Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak to play the mainline games in Super Game Boy mode, complete with custom borders. Pokémon Crystal is incompatible with the Super Game Boy, but is compatible with the Game Boy Tower; as such, it uses the Super Game Boy's default border. |
|
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9f89a5f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9f89a5f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_9f89a5f0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_aa68a608 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_aa68a608 | comment |
Kirby's Star Stacker features two Super Game Boy borders, both depicting Kirby and the Animal Friends. The first border features them against the various blocks that appear in-game, while the second depicts them, a bunch of stars, and a rainbow against a blue checkerboard. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_aa68a608 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_aa68a608 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kirby's Star Stacker (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_aa68a608 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ad293e0a | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ad293e0a | comment |
Gladys Knight's music video for "Licence to Kill," theme song to the James Bond movie of the same name, is presented letterbox-style. Occasionally a video girl appears in the top margin, laying across the screen seductively. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ad293e0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ad293e0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gladys Knight (Music) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ad293e0a | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b4967d43 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b4967d43 | comment |
Sonic the Hedgehog: Playing a game in Classic mode in Sonic Origins fills the leftover space from the 4:3 aspect ratio with rings and shapes, a picture and colors representing one of the six major characters, or sprites and colors representing one of the four games in the collection. The Sonic N release of the first game of the Sonic Advance Trilogy lets players choose between the N-Gage's unusual 11:13 and a scaled-down 4:3 ratio. For the latter, the game fills the borders with blue, plus Sonic and his name at the top. |
|
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b4967d43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b4967d43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b4967d43 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b97f2ebd | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b97f2ebd | comment |
Panel de Pon: Because the playing field occupies only the centermost vertical area of the screen, the rest of the display is used for borders themed around the various characters, with the score and time limit being placed there as well. The Game Boy version of Tetris Attack (a Dolled-Up Installment themed around Yoshi's Island) even features Super Game Boy borders that replicate the ones seen in the SNES release. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b97f2ebd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b97f2ebd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Panel de Pon (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_b97f2ebd | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_bcdcf629 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_bcdcf629 | comment |
In Japan, Transformers: Animated was aired with a border depicting several of the characters alongside the series logo thanks to the aspect ratio. It's part of the reason the Japanese DVD releases are considered an inferior version, since not only are the live-action Otoboto Family skits cut out (resulting in Orphaned Punchline and Orphaned Setup situations), the aspect ratio still wasn't fixed for the DVD releases. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_bcdcf629 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_bcdcf629 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transformers: Animated | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_bcdcf629 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_c5d97764 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_c5d97764 | comment |
Mole Mania: Playing on the Super Game Boy fills the borders with dirt, with Muddy's arms in the bottom corners and the logo at the top. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_c5d97764 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_c5d97764 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mole Mania (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_c5d97764 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d4e1e661 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d4e1e661 | comment |
Dizzy: Treasure Island Dizzy has a border. Outside the border are palm trees outside the border on the left and right, ground below the game window. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d4e1e661 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d4e1e661 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dizzy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d4e1e661 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d57e9015 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d57e9015 | comment |
OMORI has a dynamic border that changes depending on the level, as the game was originally displayed in 4:3. It even updates itself to reflect plot points, such as the Headspace border depicting constellations of the cast replacing one of them with a flower after the other party members are made to forget Basil. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d57e9015 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d57e9015 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Omori (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d57e9015 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d5b72d0d | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d5b72d0d | comment |
Snake III: There's a leafy border around the gameplay window. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d5b72d0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d5b72d0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Snake (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_d5b72d0d | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_db50113f | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_db50113f | comment |
Kirby's Dream Land 2 features a custom Super Game Boy border depicting Kirby, Rick, Coo, and Kine against a green checkerboard backdrop. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_db50113f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_db50113f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kirby's Dream Land 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_db50113f | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ddd4b174 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ddd4b174 | comment |
Monopoly: Playing the Japanese Game Boy Color release on the Super Game Boy gives the game a border with a brick wall, GB Monopoly graffiti at the top, and the official Monopoly logo at the bottom. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ddd4b174 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ddd4b174 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Monopoly (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ddd4b174 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e0d9fac7 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e0d9fac7 | comment |
Shaq Fu: Playing the Game Boy release on the Super Game Boy makes the border a Chinese dojo with the letter "S" on top. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e0d9fac7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e0d9fac7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shaq Fu (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e0d9fac7 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5d5d23c | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5d5d23c | comment |
Doom: The 3DO version always has a brown border around the action. This is done not due to gameplay not taking up enough space, but because the port's quality results in the game lagging at larger screen sizes. The two highest options have to be enabled with a cheat code, and even the largest has some brown on the sides. Earlier versions of the 2019 Unity ports of Doom and its sequel initially used a background border based on the intermission screen used for No Rest for the Living due to the games not being scaled correctly to a 4:3 aspect-ratio. Later patches addressed incorrect aspect-ratio while retaining the border up until September 3, 2020 update which implemented official 16:9 widescreen presentation with the option of 4:3, however, the unused space in the latter with the game's IWAD background similarly to the original DOS version with a smaller viewport. |
|
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5d5d23c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5d5d23c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doom (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5d5d23c | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5f0f00d | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5f0f00d | comment |
Conker's Pocket Tales: Playing on the Super Game Boy fills the borders with differently colored balloons and presents, alluding to the game's plot being about Conker's birthday party. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5f0f00d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5f0f00d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Conker's Pocket Tales (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5f0f00d | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5feb1e | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5feb1e | comment |
Ace Attorney: The Wii ports of the original trilogy fill the leftover space with a colored background and many copies of the game's logo flying by. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5feb1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5feb1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ace Attorney (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_e5feb1e | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ebc16967 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ebc16967 | comment |
Street Fighter II: Playing the Game Boy release on the Super Game Boy makes the game use what the stage the characters are fighting on would have looked like on the SNES to fill in the leftover space, with Ryu's stage also being used for the menu. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ebc16967 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ebc16967 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Street Fighter II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_ebc16967 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f3f99ac5 | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f3f99ac5 | comment |
Bubble Bobble: Playing the Classic release on the Super Game Boy gives it a border filled with bricks, with the logo at the top as well as Bub and Bob on the sides. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f3f99ac5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f3f99ac5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bubble Bobble (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f3f99ac5 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f59e607f | type |
Border-Occupying Decorations | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f59e607f | comment |
Duke Nukem 3D allowed shrinking the playfield for performance reasons, leaving a border with the green "alien nest" texture around it. | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f59e607f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f59e607f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Duke Nukem 3D (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Border-Occupying Decorations / int_f59e607f |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.