Some games load off center...

[rbarr110]

I just did a "upgrade" of mame and compiled to the newest version 131u4 with high score saves, and several of the games that used to load in the center of the screen now load off to the left side.

Is there a way to adjust where the games load on screen, in an attempt to center them again?

[u_rebelscum]

What games, what monitor, and what's your mame settings?  In particular, arcade monitor vs LCD vs , video d3d/ddraw/gdi, switchres or not, artwork or not. 

[rbarr110]

In particular Donkey Kong US1 (renewed love for the game after watching King of Kong).  My old setup would display the game with the border art of the cabinet on screen (which I dint like, made the game too small).  The new mame version doenst load the art and game is much bigger but loads on the far left.

I am using a 21" CRT computer monitor.  Honestly, as far as mame settings, I have never really monkey'd with them, basically stock upon completed compile.  I used these instructions here
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0

for the saved game data setup, mame source 131 with diff updates 1-4 from the dev site.

[Ummon]

Need to see your mame.ini .

[u_rebelscum]

Hard to say without your ini file...

Maybe you have an artwork (instruction card) enabled?  A whole lot of maybes, but I'm not going to type them out.

[Searcher7]

I'm sort of having the same problem.

I only play a handful of classic games, but the one that is not centered correctly out of those is Mario Bros. The picture is too far to the left. (And I'm using Wolf MAME 106).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

[rbarr110]

Hard to say without your ini file...

Maybe you have an artwork (instruction card) enabled?  A whole lot of maybes, but I'm not going to type them out.

Been busy, when things slow down i'll get a copy of the ini up.

thanks

[rbarr110]

Well I wont be posting my mame ini anythime soon....

I unplugged and moved my cabinet to do a little remodel work in the house, when I plugged it back in the machine no longer boots.  Gets to the post screen and I can get into BIOS, which recognizes the hard drive, but no Windows XP boot action.....    I hate troubleshooting PC's.

[Namco]

Well I wont be posting my mame ini anythime soon....

I unplugged and moved my cabinet to do a little remodel work in the house, when I plugged it back in the machine no longer boots.  Gets to the post screen and I can get into BIOS, which recognizes the hard drive, but no Windows XP boot action.....    I hate troubleshooting PC's.

Unplug any USB devices or memory sticks you have plugged in, sometimes it hangs on boot trying to enumerate what it thinks is a bootable USB hard drive but is really... say a memory card reader or a USB memory stick.

[rbarr110]

Well I wont be posting my mame ini anythime soon....

I unplugged and moved my cabinet to do a little remodel work in the house, when I plugged it back in the machine no longer boots.  Gets to the post screen and I can get into BIOS, which recognizes the hard drive, but no Windows XP boot action.....    I hate troubleshooting PC's.

Unplug any USB devices or memory sticks you have plugged in, sometimes it hangs on boot trying to enumerate what it thinks is a bootable USB hard drive but is really... say a memory card reader or a USB memory stick.

Unfortunately not that easy, no  USB drives are plugged in, only thing in the PC is:

160 GB HD
Vid Card (ATI 8500 AIW)
Sound Card (AUDIGY ?)
RAM (ummm think 512 MB PC2100
Mboard (cant remember, cheap AMD Board)
CPU (1800+ Sempron or Athlon I think?)
iPac (PS/2)
Tornado Spinner (USB)
Trackball (USB)

Not even a cd-rom drive or floppy in there.  I removed the DVD Rom after windows was installed and files transferred over.  Will have to pull the HD and plug into my desktop to see if its readable.... if not that go to RAM... maybe just buy a newer cheap board and cpu combo and some ram  at Frys, it will likely have twice the horsepower the old 2004/2005 PC had.

[Searcher7]

Well I wont be posting my mame ini anythime soon....

I unplugged and moved my cabinet to do a little remodel work in the house, when I plugged it back in the machine no longer boots.  Gets to the post screen and I can get into BIOS, which recognizes the hard drive, but no Windows XP boot action.....    I hate troubleshooting PC's.

Unplug any USB devices or memory sticks you have plugged in, sometimes it hangs on boot trying to enumerate what it thinks is a bootable USB hard drive but is really... say a memory card reader or a USB memory stick.

Unfortunately not that easy, no  USB drives are plugged in, only thing in the PC is:

160 GB HD
Vid Card (ATI 8500 AIW)
Sound Card CPU (AUDIGY ?)
RAM (ummm think 512 MB PC2100
Mboard (cant remember, cheap AMD Board)
CPU (1800+ Sempron or Athlon I think?)
iPac (PS/2)
Tornado Spinner (USB)
Trackball (USB)

Not even a cd-rom drive or floppy in there.  I removed the DVD Rom after windows was installed and files transferred over.  Will have to pull the HD and plug into my desktop to see if its readable.... if not that go to RAM... maybe just buy a newer cheap board and cpu combo and some ram  at Frys, it will likely have twice the horsepower the old 2004/2005 PC had.

Try disconnecting the arcade controls(IPAC, Tornado & Trackball) and then booting.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

[Turnarcades]

Sounds silly, but maybe your graphics drivers corrupted and/or graphics card was on it's way out. I've had several graphicscards die onme and common to all was unexpected display errors before dying and failing to continue to boot tohigher resolutions past the bios screens.