About to mess with mame.ini configuraion. Am I mad?

[rackoon]

Ok, I want to see what samurai showdown 5 special looks like in wide screen. Before you yell at me, my other cab already makes samurai showdown 4 fill the screen but its an old cab and does not have a working samurai showdown 5.

My new  cab has hyperspin and all games  show up in 4:3 which I am cool with. But some fighting games look OK with stretch.

The only way to do this is through the settings folder with the version of mame.

Anyone out there try this and could lend some advise? I have gone over some of the data at easyemu and still need a little more guidence.

[MydknyteStyrm]

Make an ini file for samurai showdown five and just add
Keep Aspect Ratio = 0

I have two ini files, one for horizontal and vertical games. I keep the aspect ratio on for vertical games so they don't stretch.

It's best to make an ini for a game if you don't want to screw with your main Mame.ino


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[rackoon]

wouldn't I be changing the aspect ratio if I want it to fill the screen?


when it comes to were I stick the file I am a little hazy. easyemu has a good tutorial but this is where I get stuck. Do I stick them in the same folder as the config file and if so what should I title it.

thanks for the help by the way.

[yotsuya]

Uh, that's why you set it to "0". 0=Off.

[MydknyteStyrm]

In your Mame hierarchy there should be a "ini" folder. All ini files go in there, with the exception of the Mame.ini which I keep in the root folder.

Think of it like this:
Mame.ini is your raw file. Source material. You can take any component of the Mame.ini and put it in a new file.
For example, my vector games use HLSL but my raster games use GLSL. Therefore I have a Mame.ini, which is set to GLSL, and then a vector.ini (in the ini folder) that tells Mame to switch to HLSL.

With Keep Aspect Ratio, you're telling Mame to either stretch to fill the screen or not. Shooter games I keep at =1, because they look like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- when stretched. Therefore, I have a vertical.ini file, which only says Keep Aspect Ratio=1.

Does that make sense?


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[rackoon]

crap! didnt work. I did find the ini. folder.  I copied the config file, erased everythin and just put keepaspect = 0, and named it samsh5sp

I am using hyperspin, do you think that is messing with it?

[yamatetsu]

Start the game, hit TAB,
go to Video Options, hit enter,
select the stretched resolution, hit enter,
hit ESC repeatedly to exit the game.

Start the game again. It should use the stretched res from now on.

[rackoon]

yea, that was the first thing I tried. I still have three inches on each side and when i switch over to my 32" monitor It will be more like five inches on each side.

[yamatetsu]

crap! didnt work. I did find the ini. folder.  I copied the config file, erased everythin and just put keepaspect = 0, and named it samsh5sp

It's 'keepaspect 0', not 'keepaspect = 0'. MAME doesn't know keepaspect=0 and therefore ignores it.

I just made a .ini file for samsh5sp, put it into the ini folder, started the game in MAME 0.161 and got a screen that is stretched to the max both horizontally and vertically.

[rackoon]

I dont know where I got the equal sign from.  I will change it and see how it goes