Star Wars Episode I - Widescreen?

CaptainValor · Post by **CaptainValor** » 23 Oct 2005, 16:05

I've been going through my old games collection and ran across the Star Wars: Episode 1 movie tie-in game. I remember playing this "back in the day" and am wondering if it supports widescreen to any extent. If it doesn't, I'm not even gonna bother installing it.

Thanks in advance. :)

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 23 Oct 2005, 17:21

Nah - I tried it many moons back when I first got a widescreen; nothing. I guess it might be possible somehow (.exe hack), but my cursory examinations didn't lead to any possible solution...

CaptainValor · Post by **CaptainValor** » 24 Oct 2005, 00:04

Crap...

Well, thanks for the input man. :)

Post by **skipclarke** » 25 Oct 2005, 22:52

Was that also available on the Playstation? I think I remember playing that one on the console. It was with Obi-wan and Qui-Gon?

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 25 Oct 2005, 23:03

And Padme and Panaka and Jar Jar...

Yes. :)

Lego Star Wars was about fifty times better... ;) The only level I actually liked in the Ep I game was the first one where you're Obi-Wan going around the droid ship...

Post by **skipclarke** » 26 Oct 2005, 00:11

Ah! That's the one all right. I did play through that one. Pretty fun game, but the control drove me nuts, hehe.

edit: that actually brings up some fond memories. If I recall, this was one of the first star wars branded games to tie in with the new prequel. even time magazine reviewed it too, stating unabashadly :) , "the force is with this game"

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 26 Oct 2005, 18:47

:lol:

If the Force was with that game, I want to know why it was so cack... ;)

CaptainValor · Post by **CaptainValor** » 28 Oct 2005, 04:48

It was a cool game! The camera sucked and I died way too often, but it was overall pretty fun... especially with cheats. :wink:

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 28 Oct 2005, 10:41

It was OK, I guess - I just found it uninspired and boring. Not a good start to the new game franchise... ;)

Post by **skipclarke** » 29 Oct 2005, 04:58

I know it was pretty funny. Now that I think of it, it might have been Newsweek rather than Time, but it was still kinda cool, what with all the hoopla and excitment surrounding the new SW movie.

They were covering everything and anything star wars, and one of their staff writers played it and reviewed the game, along with another SW release (still can't remember its name though - it might have been that Pod Racing game)

It definitely had camera and control issues, but I just loved swinging the lightsaber again. :)

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 29 Oct 2005, 10:23

Yes, that would have been Episode 1: Racer. It was pretty fun on the N64 (one of my friends owned it) but it was never very easy on the PC.

In my opinion, there were maybe four or five games that really 'made' the lightsaber for me. Jedi Knight, Jedi Knight II, Jedi Academy and the two KotOR games (even though you couldn't control attacks 'directly'...) :)

CaptainValor · Post by **CaptainValor** » 30 Oct 2005, 05:33

Yes the Jedi Knight series did the lightsaber 10x better than the Ep1 game. In this one you could pretty much block and attack. And there was very little variety to the attacks. It was kinda pathetic. lol

blackpill · Post by **blackpill** » 26 Apr 2010, 05:30

There is a way.

Just open the "OBI.INI" in the default folder.

There you find:

screen_width=1280
screen_height=960

And put your desired res.

Is Strech, but not annoying

*.*

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