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Mamewah - best layout sizes for arcade monitor?
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Fuzzguitar:
Cheers Youki,

Good advice by the sounds of it.

I'll start making my layouts for Mamewah in that size, even though it feels weird, like a widescreen format, I thought going lower would be the answer - just means I can't fit in as many fancy detailed graphics.

BTW what avatar do you have, to me it looks like Gatchaman, though not the 70's version - is it Gatchaman Fighter (a sequel series) or maybe even the 1990's OAV's?

I think I'll have to check out your FE now too :)

youki:
Hi,

Of course when you are designing your 640x288 layout  on a PC screen in another resolution like 1024x768 ,it looks like widescreen format.  But when you use the layout in 640x288 you don't really have this impression.

640x288, is a good choice if you want make layout with a list on a side and an snap on the other.

Because most of the game (at least old game)  don't have a resolution that exceed about 320x256 , so if you use a 640x288 layout , you could dedicate the half of your screen to the snap or the video and the other to the list. This way the Video or snap will not be streched. Visual quality will be better.

If you chose a resolution like 368x240  , your "snap" zone will be obviouly lot of smaller than the game original resolution and you will loose detail.



--- Quote ---BTW what avatar do you have, to me it looks like Gatchaman, though not the 70's version - is it Gatchaman Fighter (a sequel series) or maybe even the 1990's OAV's?
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My Avatar is "Actarus, prince of Euphore"  the pilot of Goldorak robot . (That 's french names) , i don't know his name in other country, but it is the pilot of "Grandizer"  , or "Grendizer" .    He appear's in the 3rd part of the Mazinger trilogy.  It has been extremly popular in France at the end of 70's .



Minwah:

--- Quote from: Fuzzguitar on July 23, 2006, 11:17:15 am ---I notice Mamewah has a "classic" layout at 368x240 for example, could that do the trick?

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That is the mode I use...I don't like 640x288 as it looks stretched and also 368x240 just looks more like a real arcade game mode (because it is!).

It's all down to personal choice really, try some modes and see what you like best...
Fuzzguitar:
Ahh cheers again to you both - great to see while I've been gone people have remained as friendly as ever around here.

Youki I've never seen Mazinger in any form but I do like my anime (currently watching Genesis Climber Mospeada) and will hopefully get to check it out. Without doing a google I'd say just from the style it looks like Tatsunoko productions made it to me. They also produced Speed Racer & Gatchaman (dubbed as Battle Of The Planets in other countries).

Minwah, I'm somewhat of a purist too so I thank you for the suggestion and will try your mode out also.

Is your desktop also at 368x240?

Sorry to ask pretty simple things I could check myself but again, my cabinets are in storage and not handy right now.
Fuzzguitar:
BTW Minwah ignore the desktop res question, I saw in another older post you have it set to 640x480 for the extra real estate.

Gotta love the search function on this forum - it actually works unlike so many other forums I visit.
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