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--- Quote from: rockin_rick on September 30, 2007, 01:51:29 pm ---Here is the mame.ini file that I use with normal mame 115 (non-mame32).  Change the filename to mame.ini.

Rick


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Thanks man.  Have you adjusted any of the resolutions for the games or is this a generic one with the adjustments made like hardware stretch?

rockin_rick:

I really haven't done much with this.  I don't have a cab ready, and I just wanted to try out my PC and AVGA with and arcade monitor.  I used a CGA only monitor, so I didn't want to tweak things all out since it was not the final setup.  When I first turned it on, the pic was 'blurry' due to hardware stretch and d3d.  Once I finally figured out that I had to modify the mame.ini file not just the options in mala, it was great.  I didn't mess with it any more.

The file I posted is just the basic mame settings.  I think that the utilities that adjust the resolutions create an .ini file for each game, with their own info.  IOW - those tools don't modify the mame.ini file.

Rick

AMDman13:

You will find that the Resolution Tool will make all games as close to arcade perfect as can be. With a few exceptions. Then if you need to adjust said game you can do them individually which is nice. You will find that some games exact resolutions are not covered by the AVGA2, but there is usually one that is close enough that no one will know the difference.

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--- Quote from: marlborroman13 on September 30, 2007, 11:39:26 pm ---You will find that the Resolution Tool will make all games as close to arcade perfect as can be. With a few exceptions. Then if you need to adjust said game you can do them individually which is nice. You will find that some games exact resolutions are not covered by the AVGA2, but there is usually one that is close enough that no one will know the difference.

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Thanks.  Is there a step by step guide to using the RT?  When I open it all the games are set to be "set by MAME" and they are not set to the closest thing.  If I have to do it by hand, is there a way to know what the closest resolution is for each game?

Thanks. 

vindes:

I'm not in front of my cabinet, so this is off the top of my head.

Bring up your resolution tool and decide what game you want to adjust.  Lets say you want to do Robotron.

In the res tool, choose the "find game" menu option.  It'll ask you what game, and type in "robotron".  It will search through your games and pick things it thinks are matches for robotron and display them in the center panel.

Click on the robotron you want to try in the center panel.  In the left panel the tool will highlight what resolution the real robotron runs at.  I don't remember what it is, but lets say it's 320x244.

Then double click on robotron in the center panel.  It will then give you a popup to let you define the .ini file for robotron.  If it shows you a bunch of stuff already in the ini file (it's in the white box toward the right of the popup) just delete everything in there.  Then from the pulldown menu at the left choose the resolution you want robotron to run at.  Choose something close to the original resolution.

Hit ok to get out of that.  Then under the one of the pull down menus there's an option to write ini files or create ini's or something like that.  Choose that, and select the "For selected game only" option and it will create your new robotron.ini file.

Then you can test it with mame32 or whatever you want to use.  Hopefully it will be at the correct resolution you just specified.

If it's not, then there's probably something wrong with your mame.ini file.

If you get that working you should understand the basic operation of the resolution tool.  What you really want to do is have the resolution tool generate all your ini files for you automatically.  There's an option under one of the menus to do that.  I've found that it doesn't pick resolutions perfectly, so when you find a game that doesn't look right you'll have to go back into the res tool and manually adjust.

Usually all games with the same original resolution will look right or they'll all look wrong.  That's where the option "All games with same resolution" option on the popup for writing ini files comes in handy.

Sorry if that's not perfectly clear, but best I can do off the top of my head.

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