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TOK:
--- Quote from: (+_+) on November 16, 2006, 03:52:44 pm ---Nice job on the TV extraction and mount.
Had a question that makes me feel a little tardish. If you were running a mame launching app at 1024 X 768 and used it on a TV instead of a PC monitor, would the image be
a) Cut off due to the much lower resolution of the TV.
or
b) Shrunk and adjusted to fit.
:-[
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On the TV in my cab, nothing would be displayed at that resolution. Image would be "scrambled".
Mine will display 800x600, but I leave it set at 640x480 on S-video input and 640x432 on component input.
theCoder:
Love the documented mess-ups. Not that I take pleasure in your problems, but I think we all learn more from others mistakes than their success. Good progress so far.
MrQuan:
--- Quote from: (+_+) on November 16, 2006, 03:52:44 pm ---Nice job on the TV extraction and mount.
Had a question that makes me feel a little tardish. If you were running a mame launching app at 1024 X 768 and used it on a TV instead of a PC monitor, would the image be
a) Cut off due to the much lower resolution of the TV.
or
b) Shrunk and adjusted to fit.
:-[
--- End quote ---
I'm using an NVidia GeForce 7600GS, with HDTV output. This gives me two resolution settings, either 720 x 576 (the one I use) or 640 x 480, at either 50 or 60Hz. If I force a custom resolution, such as 1024 x 768, the output to the TV will still be 720 x 576, however I can push the screen bounds around with the mouse in Windows (like if you set a resolution too high on a laptop).
So, the NVidia card will always output 720x576 to my TV, but will allow some kinda virtual resolution stuff, all of which is useless for an arcade cabinet :P
MrQuan:
Just bought a RAM upgrade this weekend, my arcade PC is now:...
Motherboard
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, Wireless Edition.
CPU
Socket 478, Intel Pentium 4 'Northwood' 3.06 GHz with Hyper-Threading. (Over-clocked at 10% to ~3.3GHz).
RAM
KING-MAX 1GB dual channel RAM (512MB x 2) DDR400 (PC3200)
Video adapter
Albatron, AGP 8x, NVidia GeForce 7600GS, 256MB RAM DDR2, VGA + DVI + TV output. (Component output used - 720 x 576 @ 60Hz).
Sound adapter
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro.
This system runs most newer games smoothly on MAME 0.110 :) I'm running MameWah as the system shell - I used the Hiding Windows article from the BYOAC Wiki http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Hiding_Windows.
MrQuan:
MameWah Profile
I've done a bit of work on a profile for MameWah. I wanted it to be native 720x576, quite generic (MAME, ZSNES, etc etc), and un-cluttered. Here's a screenshot of it...
I've attached it as a zip incase anyone is interested (make sure you edit layout.lay in Notepad and change any relivent paths, and install the include font HemiHead ;)).
If you have any suggestions for improvement, let me know :)