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Some .roms not working in MAMEUI
« on: October 15, 2012, 08:23:57 pm »
I'm using an Ultimarc arcade VGA card on a WG 19" vga monitor running MAME32UI v1.046 on Win XP and have some games display correctly and some not (see pictures below.)

The sound for the games that do not display sound fine and I think I remember the games playing OK on the built in video on the motherboard on an LCD flat panel before I put the Ulitmarc card in.

Is there a fix for this?  My resolution is set to 480x 640 (or vice versa- whatever ultimarc recommends)

Also, Ms Pac and a few other games are vertically expanded that the score has been run off the top of the screen and the remaining pacs and fruits at the bottom are cut off.

I had to do a H Hold adjustment when I first got the ultimarc, andy@ultimarc guided me through that.

I have messed with the V hold, V size and focus rings as necessary to make a good picture and think only the V size might be off by much at this point.

any thoughts on some .roms working and some not with the different pics  below showing
1) working centipede
2) non working Crazy climber pre game start
3) in game Crazy climber

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Re: Some .roms not working in MAMEUI
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 02:10:08 am »
My resolution is set to 480x 640 (or vice versa- whatever ultimarc recommends)

You need ta reads sum stuff. Ken the gear yer usin.
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Re: Some .roms not working in MAMEUI
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 11:09:14 am »
If you can advise of good reading, I would appreciate it.  MAME information is widespread, changes often and there seems to be some disagreement, if not differing opinions of what works and that is before the likes and dislikes of individuals play into the equation.  I was/am content to run plain Jane MAME UI on a basic Windows XP install on a box that will never see the internet and not in need of updates or security.  I grabbed for the brass ring of IV play (which requires .net 4.0) (which requires XP SP3) (which requires SP2) and MS has recently made it as difficult as all get out (and time consuming) to get to SP3 and install all the updates.  I had a week lost going to SP3 and then back to the plain Jane XP.  I've googled and searched forums and have not come up with satisfactory reading material.  Thank you again for your reply, kind sir, and if you could point me in the right direction, I offer my thanks in advance.
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Re: Some .roms not working in MAMEUI
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2012, 02:10:22 pm »
It's a while since I used the Ultimarc VGA card. Do you have hardware stretching switched on in the Mame.ine file?  From memory I think you need to have that switched off.  Also that card should be able to display the games with their correct individual resolution as they were in the arcades. Not just all of them at 640x480. There should be a resolution tool on the Ultimarc CD that came with it, or you can download it from their site.

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Re: Some .roms not working in MAMEUI
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2012, 02:45:24 pm »
Thank YOU for the reply.  I've done all of those things including installing the avres utility.  After several reboots and deleting the desktop shortcut I've got it mostly working.  I stumbled into it working so I'll try not to mess with it too much and break it again.  If I do, I'll stumble about a bit more.  Thanks again,
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