Fullscreen?

[REVPOD]

Sadly this game doesn't appear to support fullscreen.

[Firehawke]

Considering it's a vertical 3:4 ratio screen game on widescreen, yeah, it's not going to ever be full screen without mangling the image completely.

[dahdweedow]

Does it support screen rotation at least?

[Bear Claw]

how the heck do u people get this to run?
i meet all specs..screen comes up but wont start the game just a warning about auto save
any clues...help....

[REVPOD]

yes it supports screen rotation. as far as fullscreen is concerned, i realize that the game's original format is different from my tv. i'm simply asking for the application itself to support fullscreen instead of the awkward windowed mode.

[Hijinx]

Originally posted by Ξ Sgt_Rock Ξ:

how the heck do u people get this to run?
i meet all specs..screen comes up but wont start the game just a warning about auto save
any clues...help....

Press enter at that screen

[negative1]

Originally posted by REVPOD:

yes it supports screen rotation. as far as fullscreen is concerned, i realize that the game's original format is different from my tv. i'm simply asking for the application itself to support fullscreen instead of the awkward windowed mode.

unless you have a monitor with the arcade aspect ratio.

fullscreen doesn't do you much good.

its going to be cropped or letterboxed anyways.

later
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[GeeTee]

Press Alt+Enter.

[REVPOD]

Originally posted by GeeTee:

Press Alt+Enter.

That worked! Thanks Gee Tee.

[Cama-Zotz]

Originally posted by GeeTee:

Press Alt+Enter.

Thanks man.

[rebelstar5]

Alt + Enter

Then:- Settings > Display > Zoom out by pressing X until it looks right to you.

[Zico_ml]

Originally posted by GeeTee:

Press Alt+Enter.

Awesome!!!

[andromeda_girl]

just to make sure things are clear, galaga was a coin-operated video arcade game that emerged as both a table-top and a stand up 'cabinet' version. and way back in the 60's, 70's and 80's, these video game cabinets (almost) always were played with a vertically flipped crt screen, not horizontal like your computer monitor is.
very few games used horizontal screens, vertical was more common although by the 1980's h,orizonal games were getting more commonplace.

i was a teenager back then and went to these video game arcades all the time.
these arcade games pre-date any home arcade system (such as the atari 2600) by over a decade. therefore, a vintage arcade video game that was designed to be played on a crt monitor flipped on its side to become a vertical display, ported to a home computer with a typical horizontal screen format, means that to play the game as originally designed, the game format is a vertical image format, not horizontal.

the artwork you see at the sides in this ported version is pretty much what the stand up cabinets had on their sides, and the artwork changed slightly between versions since popular games would be rebranded with new cabinets, and the tabletop cabinets had this art on the glasstops as well.

the tabletops were more comfortable and fun because you could sit across from player2 and the game view would flip so the other player could play their turn, and as a glasstop table video game, you could set down your drink. other people watching the game could sit or stand at the sides and so more people could watch the game being played, unlike a stand up cabinet where fewer could crowd around to watch some hotshot who was great at the game...
go online and search for vintage video game arcade cabinet/tabletop and you will see what i mean. you can still buy them from some places if you have 800-2000 dollars burning a hole in your pocket.

so-
trying to or wanting to play the game 'fullscreen' as in without the art on the sides and the actual gameplay view filling your computer screen is a bit pointless because the game was never a widescreen horizontal game (such as defender, for example.)
for about a decade these arcade games almost exclusively had vertical screens with very few exceptions {the original pong, space invaders, asteroids and missile command come to mind} but most games were vertical like galaga, pac-man, centepede, digdug and donkey kong.
the best you can do is hit alt+enter so at least the game fills your monitor screen instead of being a floating window, and that gives you a bigger play view, anyway.

hope this helps for anybody who feels 'cheated' here.
this game plays and sounds and looks just as i remember it way back in the day when you took a pocketful of quarters to the local arcade and tried to make it last as long as you could, watching the better players to learn how it's done...
this game is a treat and i am glad it hasn't been ruined by trying to force it into a horizontal format because then it wouldn't be accurate to how it was back then.