NEW VERSION of Vertical Games on Horizontal LCD

[ZeroPoint]

These are instructions for making vertical games look bigger and better on horizontal lcd monitors.


This new version allows fine tuning for every vertical game:

- You can keep the game original flat (with or without pincushion).

- You can tilt "the monitor" back with adjustable angle and pincushion.

- You can still play horizontal games, but requires scaling them to 66%.

- Setting are saved in hlsl folder. (No more manual editing).


Note! This is a mod of the post.fx file and is not a part of mame development.

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Why I made this:

- I am using a 24" FullHD (1920 x 1080 - 120Hz) monitor (any horizontal monitor should do).

- Vertical games look small, flat and boring on horizontal monitors.

- I like the old curved monitor look.

- Many of the best arcade games are vertical.

- Stretching the game beyond 3:4 is NOT an option.

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Step by step:

1. Extract the attached lcd.rar and copy post.fx to the HLSL folder.

2. Enable HLSL in mame.ini and do the following changes:

- hlsl_ini_read 1 // reads hlsl game settings in the hlsl folder

- hlsl_ini_write 1 // writes hlsl game settings in the hlsl folder

- curvature 0.5 // IMPORTANT starting value used for the mod

- pincushion 0.1 // minimum starting value for mod to work

(Other HLSL settings like scanlines, defocus etc. are optional.)

3. Start any vertical game in fullscreen (or alt - enter from windowed.)

4. Adjust the following settings in TAB - Slider Controls for each game:

Screen Curvature (experiment with this - 0.5 is center)

Image Pincushion (experiment with this 0.1 - 1.0)

Screen Horiz Position (vertical position)

Screen Horiz Stretch (vertical size)

Screen Vert Stretch (same value or up to 10% more then "Screen Horiz Stretch")


Tip! Temporarily adjust "Screen Brightness" to 1.2 makes it easier to adjust.

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Example "Slider Control" settings for BombJack:

Screen Curvature 0.7

Image Pincushion 0.5

Screen Horiz Position -0.130

Screen Horiz Stretch 1.1

Screen Vert Stretch 1.2

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Only five lines are changed and one added in post.fx. Just open post.fx in notepad and search for "ORIGINAL" to see for your self.

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ENJOY ! 

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[wildclay]

Nice. Thanks for sharing!  I was actually just playing around with vertical monitor settings on Donkey Kong earlier today. I have to give this a try.

[Hunk_4TH]

A little late on this. But thanks for continuing to work on this! Though I'm not sure I follow you here

Screen Horiz Stretch 1.1

Screen Vert Stretch 1.2

[RetroBorg]

Looks interesting.

[Hunk_4TH]

I tried the settings but it doesn't seem to work Can you post your settings file?

[Hunk_4TH]

I guess no one is using this anymore?