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I get to safe mode without issues with the PC monitor and the HDMI output. Video mode maker isn't letting me disable edid emulation, though. Any advice on how should I proceed? Should I try entering safe mode with the VGA output?

Well, my monitors don't support HDMI, but as I mentioned, I used a DAC (HDMI to VGA) for the PC monitor. But it's no use because the output Windows has enabled is the VGA one, which somehow seems to be out of sync for both, the PC monitor (which detects it as a "16khz signal") and for the TV (which shows the desktop in a completely unusable and broken way).

I guess my only option now is booting Windows in safe mode? Does this mode disregard the custom video mode or the latest output in use and which output should I pick for that? Will I'll be able to disable edid emulation from there? Always better to ask before breaking anything else......

You could try connect PC via hdmi if available. TV through hdmi should accept 15 khz modes. Also many monitors will accept 15 khz if monitor has HDMI.

I have found a problem when I use ChangeResolution=1, for instance to stretch my 1920x1080 layout to a 2K screen. The problem is that all games in MAME perform really bad, never at 100% (my computer has more than enough power). However, if I run MaLa at the original resolution of the layout, MAME works perfectly. Any idea?

I connected the VGA output to the VGA monitor and this tells me that the signal is of 16khz, so black screen. Tried again with the 15khz monitor in case but it's still the same. Windows desktop is there, and I'm not sure it is out of sync or just a resolutiion you can't work with. The mouse cursor is visible and you can right click but menus arent displayed.

With disabling edid emulation you mean via Video mode maker and hitting the same button again?

Swap cables, disable edid emulation, swap again.

Hi guys,
I had a Windows 7 system working fine with the latest drivers for an R7 240 card. I wanted to run Video mode maker to make some changes and accidentally hit Enable edid emulation button in the Video card tab and now the 15khz display shows a black screen (with some illegible words on the lower right corner, I think). Rebooted the system, nothing was reverted, I'm afraid.

I also have a VGA CRT monitor plugged with a DAC. Custom modes (and edid emulation) were installed for the 15khz TV only, the VGA monitor just used the standard ones. I'm quite sure the output selected in the menu before hitting the Enable... button was not the one for 15khz.

Any help on how to solve this situation would be really appreciated, as reinstalling Windows 7 would be a real PITA after all the changes and updates I manually made.



I'll add it's definitely out of sync, so, as a first move, I'm not sure if it's better to try Windows' safe mode or swap cables to get signal on the VGA monitor or anything else. I prefer to ask for advice here before any attempt even for that anyway. Thks!

https://github.com/Jakobud/configgenerator

I made this plugin for MAME recently. Posting it here for posterity.

This plugin will generate .cfg files for your games. Similar to the ones that MAME already generates but they are "improved". When you exit a MAME game, MAME generates a .cfg file for the current values of the controls and dipswitches for that game.

The only problem is that it only records non-default values into the .cfg file. For example if you open a game and leave all controls at default and then exit it will generate a .cfg file but it will be mostly empty because all the controls and dipswitches are still at their default values.

This plugin I made will generate a similar .cfg file but it will include all values and all dipswitch values whether or not they are default or if you have customized them.

This plugin will also take into account if you have specified a CTRLR file to use. For example if you override controls using a CTRLR file, the .cfg generated by my plugin will use those CTRLR values when creating the .cfg file. This is something MAME does not do with it's .cfg files.

This plugin can also output the .cfg files to a custom directory and generate them when the game starts or ends or both.

Anyways, this plugin is most likely useless to 99% of the MAME community but could be useful when paired with tools like CFG Magician or LEDBlinky. Or maybe there is some other way someone could utilize it. Just posting it here to create visibility of it.

Cheers,

Nice work.

Love it.

May want to check this topic out:
https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,168635.0.html

You'll likely want to use this since it has replaced GUN4ALL and is based on prow.
https://github.com/TeamOpenFIRE/OpenFIRE-Firmware

Both are based on Prow; OpenFIRE is the updated version that should be used.