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Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« on: June 22, 2009, 05:27:53 pm »
Some of the games have a really tiny screen




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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2009, 05:35:59 pm »
I might be wrong, but I think you can enter the TAB menu and scroll down to something about screen resolution.  You should be able to change some of the games to 4:3 , but if you want to keep the bezel then I am not sure.  Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2009, 05:40:32 pm »
I don't care about the baze around the screen, I want the game to take up as much as the screen as possible, because for some games right now, like SF2 up there, I need to squint to look.

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2009, 05:46:14 pm »
Turn off the bezels.

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2009, 06:06:19 pm »
Turn off the bezels.

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That way you can use the option to stretch the screen to full size.
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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2009, 06:20:39 pm »
Some games have bigger bezels than others.  If you want to keep the bezels for some games but turn others off, just hit TAB -> Video Options -> Show Bezels and make it Hide.  This will be on a per game basis.  Otherwise, just turn them off completely like others said.

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2009, 06:31:55 pm »
Blatant Hi-Jack :

Smiliar in topic but not.....

Is there a way to hide the top "monitor" of the play choice 10 games? to get a bigger game screen?

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2009, 02:24:26 am »

Is there a way to hide the top "monitor" of the play choice 10 games? to get a bigger game screen?

I am curious of this as well?

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2009, 03:12:51 am »
there is also a "crop" option that makes that makes the game full size and if there is any room for part of the bezel it displays it
I use this option and it works great I have a Horiz Monitor so I really only see the bezels on verticals games but it's much better than Black bars

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2009, 07:55:34 am »
TAB-Video Options- select choices that say "Standard" or "Pixel Aspect" That fills the screen without the bezel...If you want to keep the bezel, look at the bottom where it says "Show bezel" ( not for sure, away from cab) and there where you see full or cropped...
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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2009, 09:48:10 am »
Blatant Hi-Jack :

Smiliar in topic but not.....

Is there a way to hide the top "monitor" of the play choice 10 games? to get a bigger game screen?

Tab -> Video options -> At the top of the list, there will be screen configurations you can select. Try them until you hit the one that works.

Better option is to just use a NES emulator.

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2009, 12:47:55 pm »
the lesson there

TAB> Video Option

fiddle till you get what you want

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2009, 01:08:28 pm »
What monitor are you using(PC, Arcade, etc.). And what resolutions are you using for these games? Are you using DirectDraw, D3D, etc.

You should be able to fill almost the entire screen for SF2, Robocop, or any other non Vertical game.

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2009, 01:25:53 pm »

Is there a way to hide the top "monitor" of the play choice 10 games? to get a bigger game screen?

I am curious of this as well?

For Playchoice games you can always use MameFX or Mame32Fx build of mame.  It has some nice features such as which screen to use in a game.  Remember Playchoice machines had 2 screens, one for the game and one for the menu (including the time counter).  To use this feature, hit tab to enter the configuration menu, select the "Video Options" and then select the desired video mode:
Screen 0 is the game screen
Screen 1 is the menu screen
Dual Under-Over (menu screen on top, game screen on buttom: the default)
Dual Side (menu screen on the left, game screen on the left)

The only problem with using just the screen 0 is  that you can't se the counter, which means the when the counter hits 0 it's Game Over.

Hope this help.

Cheers, :cheers:
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« Last Edit: June 23, 2009, 01:28:21 pm by Congui »

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2009, 02:08:27 pm »
Congui: Those features are already in standard MAME.

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2009, 04:00:04 pm »
I think I got several emails today about making things bigger..  Let me see if I can dig them up.......

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Re: Is there a way to make some games Bigger?
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2009, 03:08:37 pm »
Congui: Those features are already in standard MAME.

Those games blow anyways. What a stupid system.

Anyways, since this is an LCD, there isn't any reason all games shouldn't be displaying full screen in whatever configuration, by default. Sometimes, though, 'autoselect aspect' does stuff like this. (When I reference things like this, I'm thinking particularly of the properties menus in Mame32/UI/FX, etc. I always use one of these because then I can very easily modify and test them, without having to remember the ---smurfing--- syntax for every little thing.)
« Last Edit: June 24, 2009, 03:12:55 pm by Ummon »
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