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Title: (solved) Making MAME Fullscreen - Except Vertical Games?
Post by: shateredsoul on March 31, 2010, 08:35:17 pm

Is there a way to make Mame Horizontal Games Fullscreen but keep the aspect ratio for vertical games? The stretching doesn't look too bad on horizontal game on my monitor, but on vertical games It looks horrible.  Is there a way to keep vertical games aspect ratio and stretch every other type of game?

-SS

It's funny how easy this this, but I had no idea

you can create a horizont.ini file and put


#
# WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS
#
keepaspect                0


The horizontal games are stretched, and the vertical ones are not now (since they use the default mame.ini which does not stretch them)

you can use vertical.ini to adjust vertical games. This might be useful for having all your vertical games rotated if you have one of those fancy rotating screen setups.

-SS

Title: Re: Making MAME Fullscreen - Except Vertical Games?
Post by: sk8ersublime on March 31, 2010, 08:49:42 pm

Full screen with 4:3 and keep aspect should make the Horizontal games full screen, and the vertical normal. Try changing 4:3 to 16:9 or 16:10 too if using a widescreen

Title: Re: Making MAME Fullscreen - Except Vertical Games?
Post by: shateredsoul on March 31, 2010, 08:55:10 pm

This is what I tried, is that what you meant? If so, it didn't work.  My LCD is 16:10

And to be clear, I want the horizontal games stretched to fill the entire screen, so the aspect ratio for the horizontal games will not be kept.

aspect                    16:10
resolution                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

Title: Re: Making MAME Fullscreen - Except Vertical Games?
Post by: shateredsoul on March 31, 2010, 09:57:14 pm

would it be possible to make a vertical.ini and horizontal.ini and somehow have mame use the appropriate .ini file when using vertical or horizontal games?