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To those with cabinets with TVs: what MAME video settings do you use?
escher:
--- Quote from: boodroe on September 29, 2006, 11:09:32 am ---I have found that the only resolution that will fit perfectly on a tv is 640x432 (using component input on mine maybe different for a different input). Most video cards wont come with this resolution inbedded in them so sometimes you have to use powerstrip to write the resolution to your video card.
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Same here. ATi's software lets me use 640x432 without powerstrip though. :)
ahofle:
Well I took some pictures last night using Mame v0.108 and Joust, all on auto resolution (my desktop is at 800x600 in case that matters). I took a picture for each rendering method (GDI, DirectDraw, and Direct3D). Surprisingly, GDI looked the best by far and the others looked horrible by comparison. Then this morning I tried messing around with ddraw and I was able to get it much crisper by manually specifying the resolution to 640x480. I then tried Marble Madness and got totally different results (D3D with no bilinear filtering looked the best). I guess I'm going to have to experiment with the video settings for each game and find the one that looks best. I attached the pictures I took last night on auto res...from the top down they are D3D, DDraw, and GDI.
ahofle:
Another set...notice especially the fine text.
releasedtruth:
Have you tried any of HC's techniques as noted here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53799.0
A bit of work, but well researched is he.
ahofle:
Wow, very interesting... Thanks for the link!
I actually played with the overscan a long time ago in the Radeon display settings, but gave up pretty quickly when I saw how much of the screen was cut off. I also use a ton of other emulators, so I'm not sure I'll be able to apply Howard's tricks in all cases. Very neat idea though.