suggestion Add field for non-widescreen aspect ratios within Video

[TheGershon 3]

As a majority of new releases lack support for 4:3 and other resolutions narrower than 16:9/16:10, information on whether a game supports non-widescreen aspect ratios can be useful for many players, namely those gaming on CRTs or just very old monitors. Simply relying on "Widescreen resolution" not being supported doesn't account for games that support both families of aspect ratios.

Ideally, the most informative solution would be to add a section listing all supported aspect ratios, but that's obviously quite a lot of work. Having an optional field for 'Standard-resolution' or 'Non-widescreen aspect ratio' is a nice middle ground imo.

[bedstraweve 1]

On 4/25/2026 at 6:33 AM, TheGershon said:

As a majority of new releases lack support for 4:3 and other resolutions narrower than 16:9/16:10, information on whether a game supports non-widescreen aspect ratios can be useful for many players, namely those gaming on CRTs or just very old monitors. Simply relying on "Widescreen resolution" not being supported doesn't account for games that support both families of aspect ratios.

Ideally, the most informative solution would be to add a section listing all supported aspect ratios, but that's obviously quite a lot of work. Having an optional field for 'Standard-resolution' or 'Non-widescreen aspect ratio' is a nice middle ground gd imo.

I like the idea, though I wonder how difficult it would be to keep accurate over time.
Especially since patches and updates sometimes add or remove aspect ratio support later on.

Would this be community-maintained or editor-maintained?

[TheGershon 3]

2 hours ago, bedstraweve said:

I wonder how difficult it would be to keep accurate over time.

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Would this be community-maintained or editor-maintained?

Is not the point of having a community-driven wiki-styled site that entries can get updated over time?

Plenty of (most?) pages have multiple data entries with the Unknown state, typically Multi-monitor under Video, Other Controllers under Input, Royalty-free audio under Audio, etc. I see no reason why this couldn't join the ranks of 'underutilized on a majority of pages, but still nice to have'.
Alternatively, this could be an optional expansion under Widescreen Resolution, or just not appear on pages where it hasn't been explicitly entered in (this might be an editing faux pas though, idk).

My point is, there're multiple ways this could be implemented unobtrusively, even if potentially not widely populated across the site.