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Author Topic: SOLVED --// Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?  (Read 5140 times)

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SOLVED --// Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« on: February 10, 2014, 08:50:08 am »
So what are my options to get the Marquee's to fill the screen. Do I need to resize them all in Photoshop or can I set some scaling options?

UPdate changing the size in Photoshop / Gimp (keeping the aspect ratio the same) does nothing, they stay the same size.

Just alot of empty black space...

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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2014, 04:19:16 pm »
Not sure if I understand. Do you want the marquees to fill the screen in Advmenu+? I think you can change the view by pressing the space bar. Maybe you need to treat them as normal snapshots... not sure.
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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2014, 05:11:50 pm »
Calamity,

thank you for the reply.

I want to change the scale so that there is not so much black space on the screen.

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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2014, 05:19:04 pm »
Like this

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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2014, 05:47:29 pm »
I don't think you can do that without modifying the source code.
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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2014, 11:07:56 am »
Calamity is correct. Use a different frontend.

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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2014, 04:47:09 pm »
I found it. I set my Preview Expand to 1.85

I'll post some pics when I get home tonight.





set

preview_expand


5.1.8 preview_expand

Enlarges the screen area used by the vertical games on horizontal tile (and horizontal games in vertical tile).
preview_expand FACTOR
Options:

FACTOR    Expansion float factor from 1.0 to 3.0 (default 1.15)
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preview_expand 1.15


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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2014, 11:35:48 am »
Very good info, jtslade!! So good old Advmenu had an option for this after all. Don't forget to post a picture :)
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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2014, 01:58:01 pm »
This is from my Virtual Groovy arcade that I use to test and config. Or what I use to waste time at work so that I can spend my time at home playing games.
When I get time tonight I'll upload a real pic from the Cocktail GA cab.



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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2014, 02:09:03 pm »
Here are some of the Marquee's I am making for the menu. These are for ones that don't exist.

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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2014, 02:19:51 pm »
Better Circus
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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2014, 01:06:34 pm »
Here is some pictures of the real world version cocktail cab.





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Re: Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2014, 10:08:05 am »
I love how this vertical layout looks now.
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Re: SOLVED --// Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2014, 05:07:46 pm »
More created Marquee's

Some are tough to find so I made them.
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Re: SOLVED --// Groovy Arcade Marquee Size and Spacing? Any Ideas?
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