CRT Emudriver - Non emulated compatible games

[Rion]

Super Cyborg 320x240

graphics.ini
[graphics]
mode=2

[psakhis]

Super Cyborg 320x240

graphics.ini
[graphics]
mode=2

mode=1 for fullscreen mode; anyway i have a little screen tearing

[Rion]

Super Cyborg 320x240

graphics.ini
[graphics]
mode=2

mode=1 for fullscreen mode; anyway i have a little screen tearing

Yea sorry about that.
Totally missed that you already had it in your list.
But i did get better Results with mode=2.
But that could be a Wine issue because I'm using Linux.

[Sledge]

Has anyone been able to get any of the newest Street Fighter games working? (SF IV, IV Ultra, V)

Ultra SF IV works perfect at 640x480
I didnt manage to make SFV work at this resolution.

I can't get the base SF IV working at all...
Arcade version seems better, but controls are 'difficult'

[phasermaniac]

Not tested, but the base of Alex Kidd's graphics seems to be of 640 x 360:

https://postback.geedorah.com/foros/viewtopic.php?pid=32864#p32864

But then if you have the HUD, portraits and whatnot designed at a higher rez, you can't expect them to look "right". It's an awful "feature" even for flat panels usage but overly present these days. (In this game's case, it's clearly an afterthought as it was going to have 384 x 288 graphics in its original fan game form. It's not that we're missing much, it seems, anyway.)

Thanks, I think I can live without this game.

Yesterday I was testing SuperCyborg, but for some reason I can't set it at 320x240. Ingame options doesn't show this resolution, and setting it in the ini doesn't work either.
I have 320x240 res created and working in many other games.
Any clue? thanks!

[Rion]

Not tested, but the base of Alex Kidd's graphics seems to be of 640 x 360:

https://postback.geedorah.com/foros/viewtopic.php?pid=32864#p32864

But then if you have the HUD, portraits and whatnot designed at a higher rez, you can't expect them to look "right". It's an awful "feature" even for flat panels usage but overly present these days. (In this game's case, it's clearly an afterthought as it was going to have 384 x 288 graphics in its original fan game form. It's not that we're missing much, it seems, anyway.)

Thanks, I think I can live without this game.

Yesterday I was testing SuperCyborg, but for some reason I can't set it at 320x240. Ingame options doesn't show this resolution, and setting it in the ini doesn't work either.
I have 320x240 res created and working in many other games.
Any clue? thanks!

This is what i use in Linux with Wine

graphics.ini

[graphics]
mode=2
[smooth filter]
=0
[screen resolution]
width=0
height=0

[Rion]

Raging Justice  854x480@60i (4:3 from 16:9)

[phasermaniac]

Other games I have in my arcade cab, most of them are 2p games. There are excellent games like Huntdown, Towerfall Ascension or Shakedown Hawaii.
I may be wrong with some resolution:

99 Vidas 432x240
Battle Axe 400x240
Clan N 480x288
Crazy Power Disc 640x240
Crypt of the Necrodancer 480x288
Curses'n'Chaos 480x272
Dead Pixels 2 (Demo) 640x240
Door Kickers 320x240
Enter the Gungeon 480x288
Go Morse Go 320x240
Golden Force 384x272
Guardian Sphere 512x288
Huntdown 432x240
Hyper Light Difter 480x288
Invisigun Heroes 480x288
Kinnikuman Muscle Fight 320x240
Mighty Goose 432x240
Mother Russia Bleeds 480x272
Nidhogg 2 528x288
Petal Crash 320x224
Pier Pressure 384x240
Potion Party 384x240
Retrocity Rampage 320x240
Rivercity Girls 480x272
Rivals of Aether 480x272
Roof Rage 528x288
Savage Halloween 456x256
Scourge Bringer 480x288
Shakedown Hawaii 320x240
Sparklite 512x288
Spirits Abyss 512x288
Streets of Rage 4 512x288
Towerfall Ascension 320x240
Tower 57 480x288
Wargroove 432x240
Wizard of Legend 480x288

[psakhis]

Thanks @phasermaniac for your list.

Battle Axe runs better at 400x224 (base resolution) with aero activated for v-sync.

[Rion]

 Mayhem Brawler 854x480i @ 60Hz

Edit

Arietta of Spirits 384x216@60 (Full-screen, Pixel Perfect 1x)

[CRTFTW]

Damn guys glad I found this thread. I've had a ton of fun playing modern 240p games through Emudriver and didn't really have anybody to share my findings with.

Steel Assault is a pretty amazing new game published by Tribute Games. 320x240, a rare new 4:3 game. Very detailed and lively pixel art on this one.

Also from Tribute, I've been told by a dev that TMNT Shreadder's Reventge will be 480x270.

My TV could do 270p at 55.5Hz, but the question is whether the game will run slow or stutter at that refresh rate.

And a correction for the OP:  Blazing Chrome is 427x240. Not sure what will happen to the graphics if you run 426 wide, maybe it just crops?

Oh and another correction: Blaster Master Zero 2 is 416x240.

Blaster Master Zero 3, oddly, is 432x243. Those top 3 lines are out of vertical alignment on my CRT, but no big deal.

[psakhis]

Damn guys glad I found this thread. I've had a ton of fun playing modern 240p games through Emudriver and didn't really have anybody to share my findings with.

Steel Assault is a pretty amazing new game published by Tribute Games. 320x240, a rare new 4:3 game. Very detailed and lively pixel art on this one.

Also from Tribute, I've been told by a dev that TMNT Shreadder's Reventge will be 480x270.

My TV could do 270p at 55.5Hz, but the question is whether the game will run slow or stutter at that refresh rate.

And a correction for the OP:  Blazing Chrome is 427x240. Not sure what will happen to the graphics if you run 426 wide, maybe it just crops?

Oh and another correction: Blaster Master Zero 2 is 416x240.

Blaster Master Zero 3, oddly, is 432x243. Those top 3 lines are out of vertical alignment on my CRT, but no big deal.

Thanks! I will test this changes!

Edit: With SR2 and editing switchres.ini now it's possible without adding new modes to the system.
- allow_hardware_refresh = 1
- user_mode  = 427x240

I didn't want to add new modes to the system for only some games, today with SR2 isn't necessary. @Calamity it's so good this! 

[CRTFTW]

Edit: With SR2 and editing switchres.ini now it's possible without adding new modes to the system.
- allow_hardware_refresh = 1
- user_mode  = 427x240

I didn't know about this feature!

But what about refresh rate? A lot of these games have a specific refresh rate they need to run at to avoid stutter. Like most of Inticreates recent games, like Bloodstained and Blaster Master Zero, need to run at the 3DS' refresh rate of 59.834.

Is there a way to add a specific refresh rate to the configuration? Or even better, is Switchres able to detect the game's internal frame rate cap?

[alex2005]

Edit: With SR2 and editing switchres.ini now it's possible without adding new modes to the system.
- allow_hardware_refresh = 1
- user_mode  = 427x240

I didn't want to add new modes to the system for only some games, today with SR2 isn't necessary. @Calamity it's so good this! 

In which folder do you need to set the switchres.ini to work? I had the impression this works only on Retroarch? If you could share an example that would be great

[psakhis]

You only need call switchres in your ".cmd" or ".bat" file with desired refresh rate--> call "switchres.exe" -s 416 240 60 -l "%fullpath%run.lnk"

For switchres.ini, by default searches in the same directory or use -i argument

Usage: switchres <width> <height> <refresh> [options]
Options:
  -c, --calc                        Calculate video mode and exit
  -s, --switch                      Switch to video mode
  -l, --launch <command>            Launch <command>
  -m, --monitor <preset>            Monitor preset (generic_15, arcade_15, pal, ntsc, etc.)
  -a  --aspect <num:den>            Monitor aspect ratio
  -r  --rotated                     Original mode's native orientation is rotated
  -d, --display <OS_display_name>   Use target display (Windows: \\\\.\\DISPLAY1, ... Linux: VGA-0, ...)
  -f, --force <w>x<h>@<r>           Force a specific video mode from display mode list
  -i, --ini <file.ini>              Specify an ini file
  -b, --backend <api_name>          Specify the api name
  -k, --keep                        Keep changes on exit (warning: this disables cleanup)

[Rion]

I think you also can force it? At least you can when generating the modeline in Linux. Should work on Windows to.
call "switchres.exe" -s 427 240 59.834 -f 427x240@59.834 -i switchres.ini -l "%fullpath%run.lnk"

[psakhis]

I think you also can force it? At least you can when generating the modeline in Linux. Should work on Windows to.
call "switchres.exe" -s 427 240 59.834 -f 427x240@59.834 -i switchres.ini -l "%fullpath%run.lnk"

Hi Rion, in Windows you need activate allow_hardware_refresh option to add modeline on the fly...

[tisurame]

I think you also can force it? At least you can when generating the modeline in Linux. Should work on Windows to.
call "switchres.exe" -s 427 240 59.834 -f 427x240@59.834 -i switchres.ini -l "%fullpath%run.lnk"

Hi Rion, in Windows you need activate allow_hardware_refresh option to add modeline on the fly...

Do you have the last version of switchres?

[Rion]

I think you also can force it? At least you can when generating the modeline in Linux. Should work on Windows to.
call "switchres.exe" -s 427 240 59.834 -f 427x240@59.834 -i switchres.ini -l "%fullpath%run.lnk"

Hi Rion, in Windows you need activate allow_hardware_refresh option to add modeline on the fly...

Do you have the last version of switchres?

https://github.com/antonioginer/switchres

Go to Action, Press on the latest commit, Scroll down to Artifacts
And download the latest build.

Edit: Looks like the workflow build have expired. I forked the repository and managed to build it.
Download Link
Switchres win32 x86_64 binary
https://github.com/Redemp/switchres/suites/4026066251/artifacts/101814694

[CRTFTW]

And what if this generated modeline needs to be centered or resized?

Is the "custom_timing" command the one to use? And is there an example of the proper format somewhere?

[psakhis]

And what if this generated modeline needs to be centered or resized?

Is the "custom_timing" command the one to use? And is there an example of the proper format somewhere?

Same rules as GroovyMame so edit crt_range on switchres.ini with a custom monitor.

[alex2005]

Has anyone managed to properly display Mortal Kombat 9, X or SFV?
In MK9 with 2560x240 it displays too stretched, but other resolutions I tried trigger the 4:3 display error (game seems not to be compatible with this aspect ratio). I assume there must be an intermediate resolution that makes it visually playable, but no luck so far

[tisurame]

I think you also can force it? At least you can when generating the modeline in Linux. Should work on Windows to.
call "switchres.exe" -s 427 240 59.834 -f 427x240@59.834 -i switchres.ini -l "%fullpath%run.lnk"

Hi Rion, in Windows you need activate allow_hardware_refresh option to add modeline on the fly...

Do you have the last version of switchres?

https://github.com/antonioginer/switchres

Go to Action, Press on the latest commit, Scroll down to Artifacts
And download the latest build.

Edit: Looks like the workflow build have expired. I forked the repository and managed to build it.
Download Link
Switchres win32 x86_64 binary
https://github.com/Redemp/switchres/suites/4026066251/artifacts/101814694

Thanks. But the link is broken.

[CRTFTW]

I still got the download prompt even though the page said 404

[Rion]

Actraiser Renaissance 854x480@60i (4:3 from 16:9)
Dire Vengeance 854x480@60i (4:3 from 16:9)
They Always Run 854x480@60i (4:3 from 16:9)
Okinawa Rush 426x240@60
Viviette 384x216@60
Evil Tonight 384x216@60

[opossumita]

Hi guys, I'm trying to launch the game BUSTER (E. Hashimoto) reported to work... the problem is the game works in fullscreen only if i change the dektop resolution to 320x240@60 via ArcadeOSD, while if I try to launch it via switchres with proper command line, it gives an Access Violation error. Any ideas?  Akuji the Demon by the same creator shows the same behaviour My OS, Windows 7 64bit 

[psakhis]

Hi guys, I'm trying to launch the game BUSTER (E. Hashimoto) reported to work... the problem is the game works in fullscreen only if i change the dektop resolution to 320x240@60 via ArcadeOSD, while if I try to launch it via switchres with proper command line, it gives an Access Violation error. Any ideas?  Akuji the Demon by the same creator shows the same behaviour My OS, Windows 7 64bit 

I have W7x64 too. No problems for me at 320x240

Do you have fullscreen=on on system.ini file?

[opossumita]

If i change the desktop to 320x240 works fine, if i launch it through swichres it gives "Access Violation" error... Can you send me your files of the game? Maybe they are not the same... Or maybe you have installed something in pc which makes it work..updates ect. A picture of your install/uninstall panel? Thanks!

[psakhis]

If i change the desktop to 320x240 works fine, if i launch it through swichres it gives "Access Violation" error... Can you send me your files of the game? Maybe they are not the same... Or maybe you have installed something in pc which makes it work..updates ect. A picture of your install/uninstall panel? Thanks!

No problem, this game it's free. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NMLZO1XM19vfHeDzbF7MKTsZa7KdxvpE/view?usp=sharing

[opossumita]

If i change the desktop to 320x240 works fine, if i launch it through swichres it gives "Access Violation" error... Can you send me your files of the game? Maybe they are not the same... Or maybe you have installed something in pc which makes it work..updates ect. A picture of your install/uninstall panel? Thanks!

No problem, this game it's free. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NMLZO1XM19vfHeDzbF7MKTsZa7KdxvpE/view?usp=sharing

Hi again psakhis, I replaced video card, now I don't have anymore the Access Violation Error, but still I can't launch the game via switchres.  Can you post your switchres.ini file? Thanks! ^_=

[psakhis]

When i launch pc games i use .cmd "skeleton"

echo Switchres2 X Y H LaunchProgram
echo Launching %4 at
echo X: %1
echo Y: %2
echo H: %3
call "c:\Users\arcade\sr2\switchres.exe" -f %1x%2x%3 %1 %2 %3  -s -l %4 -i "c:\Users\arcade\sr2\switchres.ini"

[Rion]

UDONGEIN X 256x224@60hz

[opossumita]

When i launch pc games i use .cmd "skeleton"

echo Switchres2 X Y H LaunchProgram
echo Launching %4 at
echo X: %1
echo Y: %2
echo H: %3
call "c:\Users\arcade\sr2\switchres.exe" -f %1x%2x%3 %1 %2 %3  -s -l %4 -i "c:\Users\arcade\sr2\switchres.ini"

Hi, I tried to replace processor and ram... Same error, the game doesn't work when launced through switchres... Access Violation Error. Which graphic card do you have? Maybe it's more compatible.. I'm getting that one.

[psakhis]

UDONGEIN X 256x224@60hz

Great! Thx!

@opossumita, it's rare..i have a r7 360 but it worked with my died 7750 too.

[opossumita]

@opossumita, it's rare..i have a r7 360 but it worked with my died 7750 too.

I've investigated further on the problem, being a huge fan of Hashimoto's Doujin games. The access violation error through Switchres applies to all his games (Akuji the Demon, Buster, Hydra Castle Labyrint) and the culprit imho is neither the hardware nor Calamity driver. I noticed if the executables of the games (ex. buster.exe) are placed alone in a folder (Es. C:\) when launched they give the same Access Violation Error they give when launched with Switchres, while the games run normally if you launch them with each executable placed in its corresponding folder. This means that when launched through Switchres the executables can't "see" the data folders... Now you say the games work for you, so it must be some mistake I make. I'm using "CRT Emudriver & CRT Tools 2.0 beta 15 for Windows 7/ 64-bits" on ATI RADEON 5770... and last standalone version of switchres. Is there any particular way you arrange "buster" game folder, for instance? In which path have you got the folder? The permissions thing? If it works there it must work here too! Please, let me know. Sorry to bother you, but i really love these games. Thanks! Andre

[psakhis]

Hi,
my path to Buster game "c:\users\arcade\steam\progressive\buster". In my opinion, you need to discard switchres problem here.

Try to change desktop resolution at 320x240 and launch manually, if game doesn't run, switchres will not the problem.

EDIT: Thx, i will search for these titles!

(*) You can try to launch with switchres a shorcut (example:run.lnk) and not exe directly..but i don't think works.

[opossumita]

Hi,
my path to Buster game "c:\users\arcade\steam\progressive\buster". In my opinion, you need to discard switchres problem here.

Try to change desktop resolution at 320x240 and launch manually, if game doesn't run, switchres will not the problem.

EDIT: Thx, i will search for these titles!

(*) You can try to launch with switchres a shorcut (example:run.lnk) and not exe directly..but i don't think works.

Ok, it's possible to launch a shortcut file (.lnk) with switchres, and actually if works. But it works only if I set "WINDOW" mode (fullscreen:off) in Buster's ini and actually and the result is the game in a maximized window with borders... Is there a way to run a game through a shortcut ignoring its "run in a window" properties? Oh, and If i change directly screen resolution to 320x240 (set desktop mode 320x240  in Arcade OSD) and I launch the game from the huge desktop...It works as it should. This problem puzzles me and I really can't understand while it's working for you and not for me.   Honestly I'm giving up for good.

[psakhis]

Not bad news...can you try the switchres that I use? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1odd4GWA6q2tMY6tXzfT1XUZCYb_9jR5U/view?usp=sharing

Another safety alternative is use Display Changer II https://12noon.com/?page_id=641. It's really good!
 0. Save your desktop resolution config with --> dc2.exe -create="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\desktop"
 1. Change desktop to 320x240@60
 2. Save resolution config --> dc2.exe -create="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\320_240_60"
    2.a You can restore desktop resolution with --> dc2.exe -configure="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\desktop"
 3. All you need now, are a .cmd for launch buster with:
    3.1 dc2.exe -configure="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\320_240_60"
    3.2 buster.exe
    3.3 dc2.exe -configure="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\desktop"

[opossumita]

Not bad news...can you try the switchres that I use? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1odd4GWA6q2tMY6tXzfT1XUZCYb_9jR5U/view?usp=sharing

Another safety alternative is use Display Changer II https://12noon.com/?page_id=641. It's really good!
 0. Save your desktop resolution config with --> dc2.exe -create="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\desktop"
 1. Change desktop to 320x240@60
 2. Save resolution config --> dc2.exe -create="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\320_240_60"
    2.a You can restore desktop resolution with --> dc2.exe -configure="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\desktop"
 3. All you need now, are a .cmd for launch buster with:
    3.1 dc2.exe -configure="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\320_240_60"
    3.2 buster.exe
    3.3 dc2.exe -configure="C:\Users\arcade\12noon Display Changer\desktop"

So, Switchres, the same crap... So I've triedDC2:



It works! You have to point DC2 to shortcut (run.lnk) otherwise it doesn't work either.
This application seems better than switchres... I'm going to try other games.

Thanks for help pal! Very appreciated!

[psakhis]

Yeah, DC2 it's really good. Always is my favorite alternative, but you need modeline installed.

For example Hydra Castle Labyrint not detect switchres change at 640x480 and DC2 solved my problem. For some reason there are programs that do not detect switchres, maybe some new feature like applying a delay would be convenient.