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Sylentwulf:
27" TV through an ati radeon 7200
Using Mamewah and Windows XP.

I'm currently at 640*480, but all the skins I want to use are 800*600.

Just wondering what most people set a 27" TV up as I guess :) Through windows 800*600 is absoultely unuseable, and I'm wondering if that's going to go through to mamewah (and emulators)
Crazy Cooter:
What makes it unusable?  I always ran 800x600 with nvidia card to 25" tv.  I upped the font size though.  Are you using an s-video cable?
Sylentwulf:
Yeah, I'm using S-video. What I meant was, using 800*600 in windows is unuseable because I can't read ANYTHING. Tried it a bit in mamewah last night, and it's VERY hard to read any text.

Think I'm going to try re-sizing the layouts to 640*480 Although I'm not sure how hard that's going to be? (If at all possible?)
daywane:
did you enlarge your font?
I have 800 x 600 on 2 dif. TV's with large fonts and have no problems
Popcorrin:
The highest pixel resolution an NTSC TV can display is 640 x 480.  Even though it will display an 800 x 600 desktop it's not actually showing any more pixels in resolution.  That's why it is so hard to read.

It's actually not very hard to resize your layouts.  The way I did it was to resize the image first.  It needs to be 80% of it's original size.  Once you have it resized you can open up your mamewah layout designer and open up your desired layout.  Resize it to 640 x 480 and then pull up your background image and resize your artwork image boxes and gamelist boxes until they fit nicely into your resized background image.
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