Boyfriend Dungeon ultrawide and wider fix
Added 2022-08-02 19:07:36 +0000 UTCI've been hearing about this game but it's only after it was announced that it would soon leave Game Pass that I decided to look into its ultrawide support. As always, at first I looked for any mentions of ultrawide on PCGW and on the Steam forums but found nothing, so I had to install it and check.
Although the game supported all kinds of resolutions, it pillarboxed to 16:9, which was apparent right from the menu. Initially I looked at the code but then realized to try and replace the usual aspect ratio bytes, which did remove the pillarboxing but also caused the scaling of everything to be vert- or otherwise "zoomed in". Back to going over the code!
It was another Unity game, but as you often see me say, there was nothing generic about the code. The game did not use any of the Unity presets and had its own code for everything related to the pillarboxing, so I had to put my prior knowledge aside.
As I dug through the code, I soon realized that removing the code responsible for the black bars was insufficient and there was more to fix. That led me to another instance of separate code responsible for the remaining black bars, but changing that caused the game UI to be zoomed in, as with the attempt at simply finding and replacing the aspect ratio. I investigated and managed to overwrite just one specific instance to ensure the code used elsewhere wouldn't get touched, and that was fruitful.
Another issue was the decreasing of the FOV, and apparently the game had a special calculation for that too, and I re-targeted it as well.
The takeaway in all this is that while a game may have instances of the 16:9 aspect ratio in its code, doing anything to them is not necessarily the path to a solution!
As for the final look of the game itself, it appears that the UI is properly scaled and the FMVs are not stretched at all. Perfection! At least until someone tells me otherwise! :D
Download the small patcher here
