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Title: Daphne in 800 x 600 ... How to?
Post by: Halo on August 16, 2004, 07:54:47 am

Im running Daphne in Mamewah ... three questions really:

1) How do I get it to default to 800 x 600 in Mamewah? I can select this as an option in DaphneLoader .. so I'm guessing it's possible to configure it somewhere for Mamewah.

2) When the game starts .. in both Mamewah and DaphneLoader, it comes up with a message 'parsing video files' .. will this have to happen every time I run the game? It's an old PC and takes ages for this 'parsing' procedure.

3) Anyone know an approximate minimum spec to run Daphne?

Thx :)

Title: Re:Daphne in 800 x 600 ... How to?
Post by: Goz on August 16, 2004, 09:22:17 am

Unsure on the first two, but the Daphne site specs out a Athalon 800 as being the recommended minimum (buried in a doc I saw last week).

-Goz

Title: Re:Daphne in 800 x 600 ... How to?
Post by: btoddkelley on August 16, 2004, 09:36:12 am

You can rip your LD at any resolustion you want if the games do not use overlays.  Games that have overlays MUST be at the resolution that is specified in the Daphne documentation or the overlay will not display correctly. My understanding is that even games that do not have overlays will work better (run faster) at the specified resolution. (I have only ripped at the recomended resolution, but I have seen Cliffhanger that was at the wrong res.)
     The parsing should happen only once.

see this link for proper resolutions.

http://166.70.135.167/disc2mpeg.php



Later
Todd

Title: Re:Daphne in 800 x 600 ... How to?
Post by: Halo on August 16, 2004, 10:25:53 am

Thanks to both :)

Just to back up a bit ... overlays, what exactly are overlays? I have simply bought the ROMS and mpegs, so I'm unsure of exactly what format these are. I think they run as 'mv2' files.

I've run the video in Daphne Loader at 800 x 600 .. so perhaps whatever format they are, it will be possible to do the same in Mamewah? Or is that not necessarily so?

Forgive the ignorance, it's my first dalliance into both Mamewah and Daphne  :-[

Title: Re:Daphne in 800 x 600 ... How to?
Post by: Halo on August 16, 2004, 06:49:07 pm

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You're right, MAMEWAH doesn't use the DaphneLoader options (it doesn't store the settings in a file(s) read by Daphne itself)...

All you need to do it add the commandline switch '-nohwaccel' to the commandline in the .bat file, so it will now read something like:

start /wait c:\daphne\daphne.exe %1 vldp -framefile c:\daphne\framefile\%1.txt -nohwaccel -fullscreen

I think that should work

I've just been scanning through with the search facility and I think I've discovered why I can play Daphne games at 800 x 600 in DaphneLoader and not through Mamewah (as indicated above). Is there anything I can add to my current .bat file so that when I run Daphne games through Mamewah it will default to 800 x 600? Everything else is set I think, I have the layout at 800 x 600, I have the game list set .. I just get the dreaded roll when the game loads as I think it's defaulting to 640 x 480.

Title: Re:Daphne in 800 x 600 ... How to?
Post by: Rocky on August 19, 2004, 12:29:29 am

Run Daphneloader with the "show command line" option checked (I'm not sure exactly what it's called).

Then use this exact command line in your batch file.  All Daphneloader does is make the command line easier through check boxes and options.

There is a way to specify the resolution.  I just use the "default" for resolution and it works fine for me.

Good luck,
Rocky

Title: Re:Daphne in 800 x 600 ... How to?
Post by: Halo on August 19, 2004, 06:25:26 am

Fantastic! Thanks very much!!  ;D