getting some games to fit in screen?

[crabbymikedavis]

I was wondering how to get some of my mame games to fit in screen. They are games like Donkey kong, galaga and Pac man. I am running an old version of mame and have went thru my games to re-adjust them for my arcade vga, but these ones do not have the right resolution to fit right?

[WCBoudreaux]

Those games were played on a vertical monitor... That's why they're not fitting to your monitor right... About the only way you're going to get them to fit right, is going to be flipping your monitor on it's side, then telling MAME to flip the screen as well...

[crabbymikedavis]

  So I guess I will have to make another cabinet just for those games maybe?

[Green Giant]

What front end are you using.  I have mala setup to just format vertical games for my resolution, and it just leaves black bars on the sides.

[ahofle]

Can you be more specific than 'fit your screen'?  Are they too big?  Too small?  Too wide?  etc...
Vertical games look fine on a horizontal monitor, you will just have some empty black borders on the sides obviously. 
Also, what kind of arcade monitor do you have?

[crabbymikedavis]

I have a 27" wells garner moniotr and I am running mame 32 without a frontend. I was using atomic frontend but I am not very tech smart and was having problems figuring them out, so all I do is use my trackball on my desktop and start mame?

[Zebidee]

I was wondering how to get some of my mame games to fit in screen. They are games like Donkey kong, galaga and Pac man. I am running an old version of mame and have went thru my games to re-adjust them for my arcade vga, but these ones do not have the right resolution to fit right?

The games you mentioned are all vertical games, and they will ALL look good on a  horizontal monitor in 352x288 from an arcadevga, so long as your monitor can handle the resolution.  Galaga (and many other games ) has exactly 288 vertical lines, so you might find that you lose a few lines at the top and bottom, depending upon your monitor.  But this is acceptable, so long as you can see most of "HIGH SCORE" at the top and "FREE PLAY" or "CREDITS #" at the bottom.

For vertical games with more than 288 vertical lines, eg "The Speed Rumbler", you will need to use an interlaced resolution (eg 640x480 or 512x448) on a horizontal monitor.  This sucks, but that is the way it is.  Looks absolutely fantastic on my 26" vertical monitor in non-interlaced 240x384 though!