Cant figure out how to modify my mame rom resolutions? Help Please!!

[tyson171]

Finally completely finished my cab! Now the fine tuning begins.....i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong, but whenever I open up a .ini file for say frogger for mame and try to change the resolution, then save it, it doesn't reflect the change when I open up the game?  What am i doing wrong? I'm using soft15hz, all resolutions seem to be fine, and I used arcadevgares to preconfig all of my res files(which does display the right resolutions from the ones preconfigured from arcadevgares, but won't let me modify the resolutions).  I included all of my .ini files as well.  (also using a 25" well gardner arcade monitor)

Here are my .ini files:

Mame.ini

#
# WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS
#
video                     ddraw
numscreens                1
window                    0
maximize                  1
keepaspect                1
prescale                  1
effect                    none
waitvsync                 0
syncrefresh               0

#
# DIRECTDRAW-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
hwstretch                 0

#
# DIRECT3D-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
d3dversion                9
filter                    1

#
# PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen                    auto
aspect                    auto
resolution                auto
view                      auto
screen0                   auto
aspect0                   auto
resolution0               auto
view0                     auto
screen1                   auto
aspect1                   auto
resolution1               auto
view1                     auto
screen2                   auto
aspect2                   auto
resolution2               auto
view2                     auto
screen3                   auto
aspect3                   auto
resolution3               auto
view3                     auto

#
# FULL SCREEN OPTIONS
#
triplebuffer              0
switchres                 1
full_screen_brightness    1.0
full_screen_contrast      1.0
full_screen_gamma         1.0

#
# WINDOWS SOUND OPTIONS
#
audio_latency             2

#
# INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS
#
dual_lightgun             0


Arcadevga.ini

[CONFIG]
Stretch=Y
StretchVal=288
Rotation=H
SingleScreen=Y
Overwrite=Y
Algorithm=P
StretchVector=N
Dash=Y
StandardView=N
[MAME]
MAMEpath=C:\HyperSpin\Emulators\Mame\
MAMEexe=mame.exe

Here is an example frogger.ini

So this is the original .ini

## frogger ##

-screen0 \\.\DISPLAY1
-switchres
-hwstretch
-nobezel
-nobackdrop
-resolution 512x288
-resolution0 512x288@0

and just playing around i tried changing it to

## frogger ##

-screen0 \\.\DISPLAY1
-switchres
-hwstretch
-nobezel
-nobackdrop
-resolution 352x256
-resolution0 352x256@0

I know that will mess up the refesh ect. but i just wanted to see how it would affect the game, but it doesn't change anything?  Please steer me in the right direction! Thanks in advance!

[SirPeale]

Do you have those "-" marks in your frogger.ini?  Remove them.

[tyson171]

Thank you very very much, this seemed to do the trick by removing the -.  Now i'm going down the long road to try and get games to look right.....urgh its so painful.  I"m not sure whats going on, but when i change to certain resolutions, i don't see any differences, i'm thinking my video card doesn't support some (couldn't get pacman to look right, unless i messed with the vsize, couldn't get a res to display the high score at the top).  I used the arcaderes tool from the ultimarc site, going to try and maybe use the other tool to autoconfig all of the games and see if it gets closer.  Just need to do a lot of fine tuning and get a better understanding of how resolutions work.  Also have to see if my card just doesn't display certain res (like when i switched from 392x288 to 362x288 (just an example, can't remember the exact ones) i didn't see a difference, but when i changed to a horizontal res (just to make sure the changes were working, like 256x256, it looked crazy, so i know it is changing the res, just certain ones don't make a differecne, mostly just vertical.  Same with frogger, i couldn't get that game to look good at all, had to do 640x480 with hwstretch, and it just looked to small.  Just need to mess with it a lot more, still not sure how to know whether interlace is on or not either....confusion confusion....lol, having fun though