Anamorphic widescreen

While the concept of 16:9 anamorphic widescreen is generally considered to have become a mainstream addition to games post-Sega Dreamcast, a number of older games support this mode, despite widescreen televisions not being readily available at the time.

In most situations, widescreen support only affects the 3D portions of a game - 2D areas such as menus are usually fixed at 4:3, and so will be streched on a widescreen display.

Sega games which support 16:9 widescreen

Sega 32X

• Virtua Fighter ("squeeze" display mode)

Sega Saturn

• Christmas NiGHTS
• Greatest Nine '98: Summer Action
• High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge
• NiGHTS into Dreams
• Panzer Dragoon Zwei
• Saturn Bomberman
• Touge King the Spirits 2
• Zen Nihon Pro Wres Featuring Virtua

Sega Dreamcast

• Disney's Donald Duck Quack Attack
• F355 Challenge
• Giant Gram: Zen Nihon Pro Wres 2 in Nihon Budoukan
• Giant Gram 2000: Zen Nihon Pro Wres 3 Eikou no Yuushatachi
• Metropolis Street Racer (unlockable)
• Rayman 2: The Great Escape
• StarLancer
• Test Drive V-Rally
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2
• Toy Commander
• Toy Racer
• Trickstyle
• V-Rally 2: Expert Edition
• Wacky Races

Note: Widescreen can be forced in more games by using Action Replay CDX cheat codes.