Did they crop the image they make this 16:9?

[joe]

Did they zoom in, cutting off the top and bottom of the image? Either they somehow revealed more on the left and right sides of the screen, or they zoomed in/cropped to fill in a whole 16:9 monitor. It feels zoomed in.

[Pafti]

They stretched it, pixels are wider than they're supposed to be to achieve 16:9.

[ThreeSon]

Looks like the scenes have been cropped vertically but expanded horizontally, at least for areas where the map is large enough to accomodate it. Smaller areas like houses are presented in their original 4:3 aspect ratio.

Take a look at these comparison shots with the SNES version for more info. The SNES version screenshots were taken using the BSNES Accuracy core in RetroArch with default settings:

SNES
Steam

SNES
Steam