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BigDaddyE:

Alright, another issue, I'm full of them!

Since I still don't have Mamewah up, I'm using Emuloader.

I am starting to look at games and play with the configurations, I also changed the video settings in Mame to optimize the arcade card, like Andy requests at his sight.

So now, most of the games work fine, but a few, like Tempest, Frogger, others have the screen shifted to the right and down, looks like a resolution issue too, but I am not sure how to change them for each game.

I'm sure this is probably an easy fix, I'm just not good enough yet!

Thanks for the help!

Eric

swamprat96:

Firstly- congrats- your screen issues are fixed? Did you post the resolution?

OK now to the current problem. What version of Mame are you running?
1. Run mame from the command line to eliminate Emuloader
2.Try an earlier version of mame to eliminate mame specific issues. Go back to Mame 129 which I know works
3. To set specific game resolutions you need to make a specific game.ini file

BigDaddyE:

I am working through some screen issues yet, but I am getting closer to the finish line!

I am using MAME 128b.

If I upgrade to 129, would it just drop into the folder, or do I have to start all over?

Is there somewhere I can look to understand game.ini's? I've heard of them, but don't know how to make them, put them or use them.

Thanks!

Eric

swamprat96:

OK you just make a new file. Lets take frogger. Make a new text file. Save it in the same directory that mame.ini resides in and save it as frogger.ini. I just made a quick one to test it and placed the following in it.
flipx                   1
flipy                   1
Then ran mame and my screen was flipped for frogger only.

What I don't know is the specific graphic commands you need to use. I'm guessing copy the video settings out of mame.ini and play with those. I've just tried a search to find examples- I think :
resolution                640x480  (or whatever you want)

will do it
EDIT: MAME 128 is fine- no need to try higher versions


Scottk:

I can't really tell from the pics, but is this a horizontal arcade monitor?

If so, I suspect you are running into the Resolution change to 224x768 for all Galaxian based hardware as mentioned here:
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=151831&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

This breaks my Arcade Monitor, so I end up having to use Hardware Stretch for these games...




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