See here's the thing. I don't even have an HD television. It's an old standard tube tv from 2001. When I hook up my N64 and the original game to it, it covers the whole screen. But when I play it on the Wii U there's black bars on the left and right side. I tried setting the aspect ratio on the Wii U to 4:3 and this is what it looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/Fedxy8Q.jpg

I'm so disappointed. I don't think I would've bought the game if I had known it would look like this.

 

Even on a HD TV it scales so far. It's like playing the game on a N64 emulator using something like Glide64. What happens is the entire screen isn't stretched and there's no option to do (holding select doesn't work either). Considering all other VC games on the Wii U do this same exact thing it can only be assumed that Nintendo has no intentions on fixing this and it's working "as intended".

With that being said some TV's/monitors let you adjust the image and that seems like the only option.

 

I assume the Wii U can only output 16:9 image (it's 2015, after all...). So you always get black bars on top and bottom of the image on a 4:3 TV, no matter what. When you set it to 4:3 it still outputs a 16:9 image, but additionally adds black bars on the left and right to have a correct AR.

It's not Nintendos fault that you're using a TV that belongs in a Museum.

 

set your tv to 4:3 full if you have it and leave the wiis settings to widescreen.

 

At least they are doing pretty well with the DS VC, lots of different options for top/bottom screen placement

 

>2015
>SD TV

M8. Come on.

 

True. I think he could get a deal on a Sammy LED for a very reasonable price or some pawn shop if he's not up to spend too much.

Just no good reason to go back to CRT TVs unless it's to play retro consoles and even then.. emulators and so on give a better experience except for players that what it the 'way it was meant to be played'.

 

if you set your tv to 4:3 FULL (not 4:3) resolution it will cover the whole screen. problem is i had to do this every single time i wanted to play the damn game..

 

good luck playing the rom at full speed and with no glitches though. every single n64 emu has trouble running this game properly

 

I know, which is why it makes me mad that they don't provide an option to stretch the image, seeing how even some N64 games back in the day were developed with 16:9 in mind.
I hate having a letterbox image with black bars, looks dirty and unpolished to me, I never liked that.