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AdvanceMame/WinXP Problems
jam80920:
I have the same monitor, and I have advmame working on it. I've still got some work to get a front end displaying on the arcade monitor. What I did (about a dozen times now cause I'm trying to play with settings to fix my vertical scroll problem) is delete advmame.rc. Then, when you run advcfg, hooked up to the PC monitor, you get to provide the pclock and such. Once you give it the info and go into a test mode, it will change the clock to arcade monitor rate (blanks the PC monitor). I switch the cable to the WG 25K7191 (my hacked cable) and get the test pattern on the screen to work with. I had to poke around different video cards to find one capable of sending the 15.75 ish signals. Luckily, I found an old PCI Jaton card based on the Trident 9685. I am using DOS 7.0 (Win98 SE, GUI turned off).
If you happen to get to the point of a very sensitive and hard to control vertical roll, let me know. I've been beating my head against that for a couple weeks. If not, that would be good to know too, since it means I should call a WG tech and him/her do the stuff in Randy Fromm's troubleshooting flowchart.
Antix:
Well, I managed to get my first couple games working on the cabinet. I ran them from Mamewah, but that wont display on the arcade monitor.
I did have a lot of vertical roll when I started the first game up, but I opened up the back of the cabinet and played with the pots a bit. This fixed that up.
In my cabinet, there are a number of pots, but the one that I needed was the larger one (stuck out more) closest to the outside of the cabinet. I turned this anticlockwise a bit and all was well in the world.
Now If I can just get Advance mame to recognise my roms.
Give me a yell if I can be of any further help. Im not sure if I can, but I will give it my best shot.
I didnt even have to buy and arcadeVGA