ArcadeVGA Issues / Arcade Monitor / Everything

[gsoul]

I'm sure this has been done to death, but I'm seriously banging my head against a wall here.

I have a ArcadeVGA card connected to a JPac card, on a 15hz Samsung Arcade Monitor. In case anyone cares, the monitor has a Kortek chassis.

Firstly, I thought that ArcadeVGA would solve all my issues, WRONG!

I plugged it in, booted XP, and was pleasantly surprised to see windows albeit blurry and flickery. I can live with that. So I spend several hours trying to get MameWah working (Thanks to the guy who wrote the Config program for it.. this is something the MW developers REALLY need to add to a future version!) Anyways, I load Mamewah in 640x288 and I get a beautiful stable picture. It looks great.

At this point, I thought the issue was done and dusted. But when I went to load a game, example, and old favourite of mine, Blood Bros. Its flickering so badly I think I'm going to get a migraine from staring at it for more than 10 seconds. So I go to the arcade forums, my favourite place to be, and find there is plenty of people talking about this, but nobody actually giving any solutions.

After 2 days of trying to get any kind of stable picture under XP / MameWah, I decide to throw the whole thing out the window and try DOS, just for giggles.

I download this great BootCD by a guy names daniel, its got dMame.100 on it and its setup for ArcadeVGA. Once again, I feel like my prayers have been answered. The PC boots up, I see this heaps flashy MAME animation and it goes into ArcadeOS.

Now whenever I run a game, 99% of them, I just get a black screen. Theres no wavy lines indicating there is a resolution problem, its just dead. So I quite ArcadeOS, thinking maybe the problem is there, and I can't run anything from the dos prompt either.

*Phew* I know that was long winded, but I had to get it off my chest.

Can ANYONE please give me some advice? At the moment, its looking like I can't play mame games on ANYTHING.

I used to have another cabinet with a far crappier monitor, and I remember playing games perfectly, even street fighter etc. Why on a superior monitor, with a superior video card am I having so many issues?

I've spent a fortune on the ArcadeVGA card, the JPAC etc, and I can't get it to work with anything.

[AndyWarne]

I would guess that you have "hardware stretch" enabled in mame.ini. Should be disabled.

Andy

[youki]

Hi,

the ArcadeVGA / JPAC works great on XP and MAME.

But you need :

1- to install correctly ArcadeVGA Driver.  (a bleu galaga icon must appear in the task bar of XP)
2- then select 640x288 as resolution for XP. (to avoid flickering)
3-use the AVRES tool (available on the ultimarc website) to generate INI file with correct resolution for your games.
4- Configure properly your FE.

And i think you won't have problems.

[gsoul]

I struggled with XP for ages, and I simply couldn't get it to work.

Downloaded a boot CD that was setup for ArcadeVGA and installed Arcadeos and ADVMame.

Worked like a charm first go. After the euforia of actually playing arcade games wears off, I'll go back to windows and try playing around with it.

[gsoul]

Thanks for the help guys, I reloaded XP, configured MameWah correctly and used the AVRes utility, its running great. Thanks for the help! ARCADEVGA ROCKS!!