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| jpfloyd84:
I really don't know where to post this on this forum but I figured this is a good start... any help is much appreciated! I am having some difficulty displaying MAME with my ArcadeVGA 3000 card. I have this hooked up to a 19 inch arcade LCD monitor and am using Hyperspin as my frontend. I know this is a MAME issue because Hyperspin works perfect and the issues only arise when MAME opens up to play a game. I edited my MAME.ini file as Ultimarc said to do in order to get the most out of the ArcadeVGA (direct draw, hardware stretching off, and switchres on). When MAME starts up the window is right in the middle of the screen and there is a black border all the way around (I have attached a picture of this issue). I am wanting to get my picture to full screen and get the most out of the ArcadeVGA so I am hoping someone can help me out. I am at a dead end with my research and am looking to forums for help. Surely someone has encountered this issue before. Thanks ahead of time for the help! |
| Applekid:
On the Ultimarc page, it warns that some LCDs can't display the Mortal Kombat resolutions (400x256). Who did your get your monitor from? Are you sure it's switching to the right resolution? For me, vanilla MAME doesn't select the right resolution on my ArcadeVGA for me. The picture is squashed in the horizontal and the timings on the OSD aren't in the ballpark, so I wonder if your LCD is compensating along the vertical to match. Just to be sure it's not something simple like that, replace "resolution auto" in your mame.ini with "resolution 400x256" and see if it works out. |
| matsadona:
Isn't the main benefit with the ArcadeVGA boards lost when using a LCD monitor? |
| sandheaver:
--- Quote from: matsadona on April 23, 2013, 05:15:25 am ---Isn't the main benefit with the ArcadeVGA boards lost when using a LCD monitor? --- End quote --- It's an arcade LCD monitor, it should behave exactly as an arcade monitor in all respects, and it will be limited in the ways that LCDs are limited and capable of things that CRT arcade monitors are not. That said, blue VGA cable from a standard video card would probably work more smoothly if you don't want to fiddle with MAME resolution settings per-game. |
| mgb:
It definitely looks like your resolution is set wrong. Make sure you don't have some crazy resolution set in the mame.ini Also have you tried messing with a program like Mame Resolution Tool? I used that for setting up ini files for each game so that they play in their native resolution. It's a great program and you can experiment and tweak the resolutions nice. |
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