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Woodstock:
Thanks for that link.. maybe ill take some before and after pictures here in a bit and show what Im seeing. That did seem to help the visibility of most things.. but now its just the small things I cant see...stars.. and my shot after I hit fire... or things like the ufo's shot coming at me. Also... after putting those in the mame.ini file... it screws up the colors of other games... everything looks all pastel. Like I said.. ill take some pics in a few here and show you what im seeing. Also.. I might be a little confused.. because you say..
--- Quote from: thatpurplestuff on April 11, 2011, 12:25:14 pm --- Also, the lower the screen resolution you are running at = the more raster issues you will have with vector-based games.
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But then you say..
--- Quote from: thatpurplestuff on April 11, 2011, 12:25:14 pm --- Higher resolutions should theoretically reduce these issues.
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Then wouldn't a higher resolution be better for vector based games? Maybe I am misunderstanding.
thatpurplestuff:
Yeah I was a bit unclear in my post. From what I've read, the higher resolution your display is running at the better the vector graphics will look (along with tweaking the vector settings in vector.ini to your liking).
In regards to non-vector games being pastel and having generally messed up color, I'm guessing that is because you pasted the color change settings in mame.ini instead of vector.ini. Rather than only applying those settings when a vector game is loaded, it is applying those color changes on all games.
There are people in this thread that explained it much better than myself -> http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=91686.0
Woodstock:
Ok great! Thanks for that link also. I know where the MAME ini is located... but the vector.ini, I am not sure about. Sorry.. as stated in the first post.. this is my first machine.. and Im new to this stuff.
thatpurplestuff:
You can actually just create vector.ini in your ini folder and whatever you put in it will apply to all vector games. Adding the brightness, contrast, and gamma settings (and any other settings you wish to change for that matter) to that file will allow you to control the way that MAME handles vector files... any settings that you don't specify within the vector.ini file will be read from mame.ini.
Using Asteroids as an example, MAME gives priority to asteroids.ini, then vector.ini if it still needs settings info, then mame.ini if it still needs settings info.
I'm not the greatest at explaining this so I'm not sure if I'm actually helping or not.. haha. The user "u_rebelscum" did a much better job of explaining how MAME accesses ini files in that last thread that I posted.
Woodstock:
Its probably about now in this thread that my total noob'ness comes out. First.. I go in the INI folder.. and I make a new notepad file. I put down all of the options I need in there.. and save it as "vector.ini". I go back into MAME to test.. and its like its not reading. Here's how I have it set up in the "vector.ini" file:
#
# CORE VECTOR OPTIONS
#
antialias 1
beam 2.0
flicker 0
brightness 1.0
contrast 2.0
gamma 2.0
_____________________________________
That is how I put everything in the file. Its doesn't have an INI icon either.. like the mame.ini file.
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