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Calamity:
You can also reduce horizontal amplitude by software using a custom monitor line in GroovyMame, like this:
monitor_specs 15625-16200,50-60,4.000,4.700,9.000,0.064,0.192,1.024,0,0,288,448
Here, the values 4.000 and 9.000 are the horizontal front and back porch sizes, you can play with those, think of them as the right/left border's size (the bigger they are the narrower the picture).
dmarcum99:
Hi Guys!
A couple of questions.
Can you recommend a cheap PCI wireless card that will work well with the GROOVYMAME live cd? I want to close the back of my cab and I'm tired of having wires running through my house to be able to remote in if I need to.
Also, I see some current discussion on the monitor forum about rankings, mode selection, etc...does this also affect the linux distro or is the discussion just related to Windows?
Thirdly, mame .142 is out. I saw there were some issues in the mameui program hogging a bunch of memory and such...is .142 performance wise any different and are there any benefits upgrading to it when it's avail for groovymame?
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 14, 2011, 04:22:30 pm ---Hi Guys!
A couple of questions.
Can you recommend a cheap PCI wireless card that will work well with the GROOVYMAME live cd? I want to close the back of my cab and I'm tired of having wires running through my house to be able to remote in if I need to.
Also, I see some current discussion on the monitor forum about rankings, mode selection, etc...does this also affect the linux distro or is the discussion just related to Windows?
Thirdly, mame .142 is out. I saw there were some issues in the mameui program hogging a bunch of memory and such...is .142 performance wise any different and are there any benefits upgrading to it when it's avail for groovymame?
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Wireless cards are tricky in Linux, plenty work great but there's ones that don't work or sort of work with proprietary drivers, so it makes it hard to pick the ones that do work. Also there's chipsets vs. the actual commercial labels/names given. So that varies per country too, like certain Linksys ones from Europe use a working chipset, while the ones of the exact same name in the US might not have that working chipset. That all said, I am using a ath9k (Atheros chipset) based card, here's a link that might help...
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/products/external
Mine actually since a few months ago has picked up a slightly crappy connection, has pauses every minute or so, which sucks. I'm not sure what they did in the driver, plus I have to use G networking instead of N on it or large data transfers hang it. So that shows I've had issues with what I have, that used to mostly work fine, it's a pain. There's belkin based ones that might work, or might not, mine don't. Also there's ones based on Broadcom chipsets and they only with with a proprietary driver and are really hard to setup, I have one and only worked in Ubuntu but never in Gentoo.
Nope, the rankings don't matter in Linux, that's just to work around the whole modeline setup and limitations in Windows.
The newest ISO uses Mame 142, I doubt you'll need it though, I haven't found any differences unless there's the new exotic games added to it but classics are all the same from what I can tell.
ufoufo512:
Played with my cab little more. I have a rotating monitor and used to use inbuilt Advancemenu's filtering to display only horizontal or vertical games on the list. Now I tried from AdvanceMenu and choose Only Vertical. Available games list was empty, which was incorrect as there were many vertical games in my ROMS folder.
I don't have the access to my cab now to give proper steps to reproduce, but basically it is like this:
1) In AdvanceMenu bring up the menu dialog.
2) Navigate to Filtering (or something like that)
3) Choose "Only Vertical" in "Display Orientation"
Expected results:
Games list should list all vertical orientation games.
Actual results:
Games list is empty.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: ufoufo512 on April 15, 2011, 02:37:32 am ---Played with my cab little more. I have a rotating monitor and used to use inbuilt Advancemenu's filtering to display only horizontal or vertical games on the list. Now I tried from AdvanceMenu and choose Only Vertical. Available games list was empty, which was incorrect as there were many vertical games in my ROMS folder.
I don't have the access to my cab now to give proper steps to reproduce, but basically it is like this:
1) In AdvanceMenu bring up the menu dialog.
2) Navigate to Filtering (or something like that)
3) Choose "Only Vertical" in "Display Orientation"
Expected results:
Games list should list all vertical orientation games.
Actual results:
Games list is empty.
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Ah, so it's just not filtering, but works without the filtering? Sounds like possibly the XML format has changed or something since that version of AdvanceMenu (which is pretty old now), interesting, might be needing some changes to filter properly or something. I'll have to look at it and see.