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Truz:

well i tested it again and I once again did not get the beep from the mb. Looking good so far. Ill test it again tomorrow.

But can anyone explain to me why the picture looks so much better for me in dos mame? The only bad thing was the volume was much lower. But why did i see much better visual results with this version? Also does mamewah work with dos mame?

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Truz on March 23, 2004, 09:17:21 pm ---well i tested it again and I once again did not get the beep from the mb. Looking good so far. Ill test it again tomorrow.
But can anyone explain to me why the picture looks so much better for me in dos mame?

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I haven't used straight DOS MAME since before windows went to command-line MAME.  I would bet you could get the same picture out of WinMAME with some tweaking - Figure out what resolution DOS MAME is using and select that for the particular game in Win MAME, turn hardware stretch off so you get the black borders, experiment with the different scanline options, etc.

--- Quote ---The only bad thing was the volume was much lower.

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Did you try adjusting it with the tilde menu?

--- Quote ---Also does mamewah work with dos mame?

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Yes, according to it's webpage.

I'm more curious why DOS MAME fixed the beeping problem, especially since I assume you were running it under a DOS box with Windows still in the background (not pure DOS mode).  Anyone have any ideas?

Truz:

ahh i forgot about the tilde menu, ill give that a try later when i get back from classes.


Also i was not running this in pure dos. It was out of a dos window in Windows Millenium. Im curious as well, why do you guys think this may have solved my beeping problem. I say may because i still want to give it a couple more tests later today, but i am pretty sure that this probably has solved my problem.

Truz:

well did another testing and i think this has solved my problem. WOOHOO!


But when i went to go try out dos mame in mamewah (see if that might cause a problem) i am having trouble. Mamewah sees all my roms and displays all of the artwork but when i go to launch a game the loading box comes up and it locks up there. The whole computer freezes and i have to restart. Its weird, the game wont load and it locks up on the loading box. Whats the deal

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: Truz on March 24, 2004, 08:38:10 am ---Also i was not running this in pure dos. It was out of a dos window in Windows Millenium. Im curious as well, why do you guys think this may have solved my beeping problem.

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I have a theory, but that's all it is . . .

Last night I was playing a few games in MAME and it was behaving weird (P1B1 would either not work or would fire repeatedly until I opened the UI menu, then it would work fine.  P1B2 was mapped to NONE, even though I don't have any ctrlr.ini files set up this way).

I didn't test it out, but I think this is my problem - I was using a PC joystick, but it died, and it was messing up some games, so I unplugged it, but I didn't change the "joystick 0" line in my mame.ini file, so MAME was still polling the gameport and getting confused.

How this applies to you is: Commandline winMAME stores configuration in the mame.ini file, DOS MAME in the mame.cfg file, and I'm not sure where MAME32 store it.

Presumably, when you installed DOS MAME, you didn't copy all the settings from your mame.ini file, so you didn't pick up the setting that was causing the problem, whatever that is . . .

But it's just a hunch . . .

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