Fun with Advancemame

[Ummon]

I've been playing around some more with that Mitsubishi analog presentation monitor. First off, I got some pretty good S-video. Not great, but playable. Does depend on the card, though. Now to the main reason for the thread.

I had snagged the computer I'd set up for my candy. It has an Nvidia MX440. Really weird, but it runs Advancemame just fine with my digital presentation monitor. Totally loopy with the candy monitor. I thought it was the composite video. But it also runs weird on the analog Mitsu, except in this case it runs double-image. HM.

So tonight I snagged another computer, same make but different video card, an Nvidia Ti200 and it ran Advancemame just fine on the Mitsu. In fact, it displayed vertical games at 60hz really nicely. Maybe because it's analog, it doesn't have separate modes, just a bandwidth of 15-36khz.

Here, the geometry is set for 336x240 (or maybe 288x240), so of course Bubbles fits just fine. And generally any game that ends in 240 will, too. Yet I was surprised that various vertical games run horiztonally had very little overscan. (First four images - I don't know why two of those are blurry.) But even Moon Patrol and Space Panic almost fit. The power of Advancemame, I guess.

[Ummon]

Now to the candy. I don't know why, but this rig was displaying Advancemame fine on the candy monitor - with some exceptions. Only resolutions ending in 240 or something very close, like 232. And no vertical-run-horizontal at all. Just garbage if not ending in 240. (Next few images.) I can actually get more out of regular mame, but still very interesting.

Oh, and for some reason, the controls work now. So it's playable again! (Power supply still doesn't work, but that just means the marquee desn't light, and there's no power to the audio amp that doesn't seem to work anyways.) Good thing, cos I was thinking of just getting rid of it.

[tikbalang]

very nice!!!

[Ginsu Victim]

Nvidia TV-out is crap compared to ATI cards. Sounds like that one card was living up to expectations.

I love those scanlines.

[Ummon]

Yeah, especially the Mitsu is sweet. The candy, though a slight dim, seems to get better after left on for a half hour or so. Played Caveman Ninja with my friend, last night.

Yeah, I have to get an ATI to test that out. Both rigs that I tried S-video with had Nvidia, a 6200, and a Ti200, respectively. I didn't try the MX440 with that because it won't do dual display between its VGA and DVI outputs. Only outputs on VGA, so I didn't bother.