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Stobe:
I'm sure this is covered here somewhere, but I have not found the correct search terms to find the answer...

I am running MameWAH on a horizontal arcade monitor, and my horizontal games look great.  But some of my vertical games (pacman, DK, etc) are stretched too tall.  I can use my vertical size pot on my monitor to get them all into view, but this makes the horiz games look funny.

Is there a software setting in mame config I am missing that will solve this problem.  Can I just "scale" down some vertical games to fit within the viewable height of my screen?

Thanks for any help.  I want to be able to see my Ms. PacMan score, lol.

-Stobe
SirPeale:
Vertical games aren't meant to be played on a horizontal monitor. 

Change from an arcade monitor to a VGA one and that'll work.
Stobe:

--- Quote from: Peale on May 07, 2006, 03:04:21 pm ---Vertical games aren't meant to be played on a horizontal monitor. 

Change from an arcade monitor to a VGA one and that'll work.

--- End quote ---

Oh...  I must be the only idiot using an arcade monitor with mame?  (j/k)

The aspect ratio of Windows looks correct, and my 640x480 mamewah layouts are showing right, but when it loads some vert games is when it stretches off the screen.  This is waht was confusing me.

-Stobe
SirPeale:
Yes, because you're using horizontal applications in the manner which they're designed for.  When you have a vertical game in a horizontal monitor, yeah, it doesn't look right.  If you use the flag -ror or -rol it'll be the way it should, but on it's side.
Howard_Casto:
I've went over this before on another thread.... manually set mame to run at the maximum resolution it'll handle and use hardware stretch... all will be well as you are only running one resolution.  This is the ONLY way to run every single game in mame on an arcade monitor without having to tweak the monitor's settings for every other game or have a thousand custom profiles, manually tweaked in powerstrip or advancemame.(And even then ps and advmame don't get em all). 

No it won't work in dos, only windows.  This is the very reason I've been preaching for everyone to ditch dos for years now. 
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