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WG D9200 and ArcadeVGA video card question?
redcoats:
Well I'm new to this forum but been a long time lurker, I just have a quick question. I own the WG D9200 arcade monitor and right now I'm running it with a geforce 3. I was wondering would an ArcadeVga card really make that much of a difference? I think the games look good now but if I install the card will my jaw drop when I see the difference? Thanks for any help.
elvis:
What software are you running on the cab, and what resolutions do you use?
redcoats:
I use 640X480 and sometimes 800X600 and I'm using Mame 32 on windows me. Geforce 3 with the latest video drivers.
wpcmame:
--- Quote from: redcoats on March 13, 2005, 01:07:34 pm ---Well I'm new to this forum but been a long time lurker, I just have a quick question. I own the WG D9200 arcade monitor and right now I'm running it with a geforce 3. I was wondering would an ArcadeVga card really make that much of a difference? I think the games look good now but if I install the card will my jaw drop when I see the difference? Thanks for any help.
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Depends on what you mean. Do you want the games to look good or look like they did in the arcades? It is not necessarily the same thing.
In the arcades, the games rarly used square pixels which is what you get with the standard windows resolutions (640x480, 800x600). Most games also used scanlines (i.e. every second row is blank). ArcadeVGA makes it easy (almost plug'n play) to fix both the pixel shape and the scanlines but you can get the same result easily with software.
I recommend you to enable the scanlines in mame and see if you like what you see.
redcoats:
--- Quote from: wpcmame on March 14, 2005, 02:53:36 am ---
--- Quote from: redcoats on March 13, 2005, 01:07:34 pm ---Well I'm new to this forum but been a long time lurker, I just have a quick question. I own the WG D9200 arcade monitor and right now I'm running it with a geforce 3. I was wondering would an ArcadeVga card really make that much of a difference? I think the games look good now but if I install the card will my jaw drop when I see the difference? Thanks for any help.
--- End quote ---
Depends on what you mean. Do you want the games to look good or look like they did in the arcades? It is not necessarily the same thing.
In the arcades, the games rarly used square pixels which is what you get with the standard windows resolutions (640x480, 800x600). Most games also used scanlines (i.e. every second row is blank). ArcadeVGA makes it easy (almost plug'n play) to fix both the pixel shape and the scanlines but you can get the same result easily with software.
I recommend you to enable the scanlines in mame and see if you like what you see.
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So will the scanlines in mame make it almost spot on with the arcade versions? And if I use scanlines what percentage should I set it at for the closest to arcade? When you brought up software were you talking about mame being the software? Or is there some other program out there where I can replicate this without having to buy the arcadevga?