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| Boz:
I'm curious. As I'm walking through the Mame Resolution Tool setting up specific resolutions for the games to use, I'm wondering what resolution anyone else uses for PACMAN. I ended up with 352x288 and it seems to look pretty good. What do *you* have it set for in your pacman.ini? |
| RayB:
Are you talking AdvanceMame or ArcadeVGA? With ArcadeVGA I let MAME "choose the best" which is presumably the game's original resolution. No configuring required at all!! |
| Boz:
--- Quote from: RayB on March 29, 2007, 11:19:43 am ---Are you talking AdvanceMame or ArcadeVGA? With ArcadeVGA I let MAME "choose the best" which is presumably the game's original resolution. No configuring required at all!! --- End quote --- Hmmm... Well Mame doesn't always choose the best resolution though. Configuring game specific INI's gives you more control over what you see (i.e. native resolution matching) and just because you are using the AVGA, you still might NOT be getting the full benefit out of your hardware. If you are using an arcade monitor you might consider this. Of course, be sure your arcade monitor supports the below resolution. Pop open a command prompt and change to your mame directory mame pacman -noreadconfig -video ddraw -nohwstretch -switchres -verbose -resolution 352x288 If you use -resolution auto, which I think is the mame default, I think it paints the screen at 640x288. I was just curious if anyone else is setting game specific INI's in conjunction with an Arcade VGA card, and what you are using for some of the classics. |
| RayB:
Someone back me up here. I'm sure my configuration has MAME choosing native resolutions. That's the whole point of an AVGA card!! Mame knows what the game's original res is supposed to be. |
| Boz:
--- Quote from: RayB on March 29, 2007, 12:07:07 pm ---Someone back me up here. I'm sure my configuration has MAME choosing native resolutions. That's the whole point of an AVGA card!! Mame knows what the game's original res is supposed to be. --- End quote --- I had this big response all ready to post until I ran mame with just the Ultimarc recommended settings (which I've always done), but without setting a game-specific INI with resolution settings. --global mame.ini settings video ddraw hwstretch 0 switchres 1 --pacman.ini that I didn't use resolution 352x288 Mame instructed Direct Draw to paint the best resolution for the game which is 352x288 (since the AVGA doesn't support pacman's native resolution of 224x288). So, now I find myself wondering three things. 1) Andy mentioned on Ultimarc that Mame doesn't always pick the best resolution. How does he know this and under what circumstances does this happen? How often does it happen? 2) What decision-making process does Mame initiate to display the best resolution? How would it have decided that 352x288 was better than 640x288 (both AVGA supported resolutions)? 3) If Mame or DDraw is choosing the best possible resolution supported by the card for displaying native game resolutions, what's the purpose of the "Mame Resolution Tool"? What benefit can I gain from using it? |
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