Hey, I've recently jumped on the PVM bandwagon and got myself a PVM-14M4E. I am using it with a modded PAL SCPH-1002 Playstation with scart->rgb bnc. I'm loving the quality, but after checking it out and playing for a bit, I've noticed that the game screen isn't properly filling the allowed space (the top was cut a bit, and the sides were shifted etc). This irked me to play around with the service menu settings (the one you enter by pressing menu and degauss at the same time). So I had a game of street fighter zero 3 (ntsc-j) paused so I could adjust the screen settings. I made my adjustments, saved them (by pressing degauss until write comes up) and restarted the screen, the settings were saved. I then popped grandia in (again ntsc-j) and the screen that was nicely fit for SFZ3, was squished quite noticably on the sides (i'd say 1-2 cm black bars on both sides), the same happened with Tactics Ogre (ntsc-j). Is this a game resolution problem, or something else? Can this be remedied in any way, so that all games fill automatically the whole tube? Any help will be appreciated.
That's just the way it is with tube TVs. You have to find a setting that is the best compromise for all your games and consoles. At least on my BVM I can set the geometry for the 4:3, 16:9 and the underscan buttons which basicly gives me four different geometry settings that I can change with a button click or two. Maybe yours can do that too?
Many games don't fill the overscan area, or are letterboxed like Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Newer systems have the phenomenon of 16:9 only games. The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword, for instance, must use gigantic blank bars to look sane on old tubes.
