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| juggle50:
I guess I should specify what I have. I use a multisync monitor with an Arcade VGA card. All of my vertical games are played at the correct res. However, with my horizontal I use the 600 x 800 GDI set up. Of course I get black bars at the top and bottom but I believe it displays at the correct aspect ratio and nothing gets chopped off. |
| G1zm0:
im in the process of putting a scart tv as a vertical monitor since the original arcade monitor was busted. im going to use the arcade vga card and also ive got the engineers code for the tv to set the geometry so it fits snug. all i need to do is figure out what fromt end to use and how to get it to boot mame up in vertical mode |
| Paladin:
On the one hand I'm glad that it wasn't a simple oversite, but on the other hand I can't believe the resolution tool doesn't account for this. I just assumed that you tell it what orientation your monitor is so it would set up all the games accordingly. It seems to me that there would be enough people with this setup that a solution would have been found. |
| juggle50:
I think you'd be surprised by how few people here have this set up. I think most people here have large 25" to 27" monitors mounted horizontally. When games are played vertically on this type of set up the vertical games are scaled down to about 19" which is actually the size of the origional vertical games from the 80s. And people seem pretty happy with that. I think that most people who have a Mame cab with a vertical monitor use it exclusively for vertical games. Also, I think that res tool was developed by someone with a horizontal monitor so they weren't thinking to hard about people like us. I even emailed Andy Warne about the best way to set up MAME coupled with an ArcadeVGA card to play horizontal games on a vertically mounted monitor and he didn't know and said very few people had ever inquired about it. It's only been recently that other emulators like Daphne have even had a rotational feature. Anyway, let me know what works for you. Do you have a cocktail cab or an upright? If you have a cocktail cab Mame 107 and up have a great head to head feature that is really cool when playing horizontal games. |
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