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Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards
Gage:
I'm having a similar screen-splitting issue. It's odd, because it only happens on a few games. Most of the games play absolutely flawlessly, but if I try to load The Simpsons or G.I. Joe (both Konami games...coincidence?), the games run at what appears to be double speed and the screen becomes split into four identical screens. I've tried different roms and all appear to have the screen splitting issue. Any other game runs without issue.
Are there any settings that might fix this issue? I'm running cabMAME with soft15khz and use a JPAC/IPAC setup on my four-player arcade cabinet.
Malenko:
change the resolution the game is trying to run at to something close to native res that doesnt mess up the screen
Gage:
--- Quote from: Malenko on August 13, 2012, 06:10:38 pm ---change the resolution the game is trying to run at to something close to native res that doesnt mess up the screen
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Thanks, Malenko. Are you talking about actually changing the PC resolution display option or are you talking about adding custom modelines? (Or somethign entirely different?) Is there a resource which lists the native resolution for MAME games or can this be found by some other means?
Gage:
--- Quote from: Gage on August 13, 2012, 11:37:58 am ---I'm having a similar screen-splitting issue. It's odd, because it only happens on a few games. Most of the games play absolutely flawlessly, but if I try to load The Simpsons or G.I. Joe (both Konami games...coincidence?), the games run at what appears to be double speed and the screen becomes split into four identical screens. I've tried different roms and all appear to have the screen splitting issue. Any other game runs without issue.
Are there any settings that might fix this issue? I'm running cabMAME with soft15khz and use a JPAC/IPAC setup on my four-player arcade cabinet.
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Quick update on this... I was able to determine that both Simpsons and G.I. Joe have a resolution of 288x224 (loaded the rom on my home PC instead of the arcade cab and viewed the rom details). It appears as if soft15khz doesn't enable this resolution "out of the box". It sounds like Konami uses this resolution in many of their games. So my inclination now is to add this as a custom resolution option. Does this seem like it could be the cause of the screen splitting issue I'm having?
Just to be sure, after doing a little research online, here's how I understand this particular set of modelines can be added in soft15khz:
1. Create a file called custom15khz.txt with the following text inside it:
modeline "288x224@61" 6,050909 288 304 352 384 224 236 254 260 -hsync -vsync
modeline "288x224@60" 6,03648 288 304 352 384 224 236 256 262 -hsync -vsync
modeline "288x224@60" 6,052147 288 304 352 384 224 238 257 264 -hsync -vsync
2. Save the custom15khz.txt file in the same folder as the soft15khz exe.
3. Open soft15khz and click the Enable User button.
4. Restart the PC.
Does this all look correct?
Gage:
--- Quote from: Gage on August 15, 2012, 09:29:25 am ---
--- Quote from: Gage on August 13, 2012, 11:37:58 am ---I'm having a similar screen-splitting issue. It's odd, because it only happens on a few games. Most of the games play absolutely flawlessly, but if I try to load The Simpsons or G.I. Joe (both Konami games...coincidence?), the games run at what appears to be double speed and the screen becomes split into four identical screens. I've tried different roms and all appear to have the screen splitting issue. Any other game runs without issue.
Are there any settings that might fix this issue? I'm running cabMAME with soft15khz and use a JPAC/IPAC setup on my four-player arcade cabinet.
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Quick update on this... I was able to determine that both Simpsons and G.I. Joe have a resolution of 288x224 (loaded the rom on my home PC instead of the arcade cab and viewed the rom details). It appears as if soft15khz doesn't enable this resolution "out of the box". It sounds like Konami uses this resolution in many of their games. So my inclination now is to add this as a custom resolution option. Does this seem like it could be the cause of the screen splitting issue I'm having?
Just to be sure, after doing a little research online, here's how I understand this particular set of modelines can be added in soft15khz:
1. Create a file called custom15khz.txt with the following text inside it:
modeline "288x224@61" 6,050909 288 304 352 384 224 236 254 260 -hsync -vsync
modeline "288x224@60" 6,03648 288 304 352 384 224 236 256 262 -hsync -vsync
modeline "288x224@60" 6,052147 288 304 352 384 224 238 257 264 -hsync -vsync
2. Save the custom15khz.txt file in the same folder as the soft15khz exe.
3. Open soft15khz and click the Enable User button.
4. Restart the PC.
Does this all look correct?
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Okay, so ONE MORE update (I must be the only one on the boards today!!)...
I successfully (I think) added the modelines I mentioned above for the Konami games, but it didn't help. Konami games still split into four screens. After doing a little more research, I tried setting switchres to "0" in the mame.ini file. Running the Konami games in cabMAME outside of Hyperspin worked PERFECTLY! Simpsons, G.I. Joe, Aliens...all worked and looked great. So it's fixed, right? Nope. When I run MAME through Hyperspin, the games play in a single window at their normal speed instead of split into four at double speed (which is an improvement), but it's a window about half of the screen size. And it's not just the Konami games, it's ALL of the games that run in the tiny little screen. I set the switchres back to "1" and the all of the games (except the 288x224 Konami titles) run in the full screen mode again.
This might be more of a Hyperspin issue, because as I said earlier, cabMAME runs the games full screen outside of Hyperspin without issue. (Note: I tried launching cabMAME through Hyperspin via both HyperLaunch and non-HyperLaunch with the same result.)
Anybody out there have any thoughts on this? Because I'm pulling my hair out (and I don't have much left to pull).