I have a XP32 SP2 setup with an onboard Radeon HD 4250 video chipset with (probably) an ATI mobility driver, that I just replaced with a patched recent fullsize Catalyst driver. Unfortunately my Hardware doesn't let me install the (patched) CRT emudriver, which is a pity (
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130577.msg1337816.html#msg1337816). So, although I will not be able to use the full potention of Groovymame, I still want to give it a go. Mainly because of the nice way switchres is incorporated with great output info (If I only would understand that info
). I am using soft15K by the way.
I have some questions about Groovymame though:
1. What does the option 'menu' under 'windows video options' do?
2. I am going to use my groovymame setup in a NAC, with a Nanao MS9 29" vertical orientated monitor, so In the 'core switchres options' I have as a monitor 'generic_15' and orientation 'vertical'. Is that correct?
3. I did find the monitor specs for my Nanao MS9 29"monitor:
NANAO MS9-29 (retrorepair)
monitor_specs0 15450.00-16050.00, 55-65, 3.91, 4.70, 6.85, 0.190, 0.191, 1.018, 0, 0, 288, 448
monitor_specs1 23900.00-24900.00, 55-65, 2.91, 3.00, 4.44, 0.451, 0.164, 1.048, 0, 0, 480, 768
I am only going to play 15K games, but how do I incorportae the info of the first line in the mame.ini? and do I have to set my monitor type on arcade_15 if i use these monitor specs?
4. I have vsync issues with a lot of games that do play fine in Cabmame (where I use game.ini's). But not with all games, dkong for instance plays fine in Grooymame (full screen) and in Cabmame (without game.ini, for some reason not fullscreen though). Galaga however plays fine in Cabmame (with game.ini with 304x240 resolution), but the game is out of sync in Groovymame. Obviously because Groovymame doesn't pick the most correct modeline. Why is that ? I attached the game reports of dkong, galaga and my mame.ini. Could someoneplease look at them?
5. In the atached game reports are all the modelines listed that I have available, installed through soft15K. all 320x... are not working though. Why not? Games like ddonpach play on 320x240 and in Cabmame I force them to play in 321x240 (via the game.ini), but I don't want to use game.ini's in Groovymame. How do I get the resolution of 320x... available? or can I modify the mame.xml file so that Groovymame picks 321x240?
for the record, I am doing all my tests on a regular Barco 15K monitor because that is physically easier.
Thanks for your time to read this lenghty post.