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Title: How do I get rid of ripples during gameplay?
Post by: subzero23 on December 17, 2004, 05:29:26 pm

During a game on either mame or another console emulator,
say you're playing a game like a platformer and running across the screen etc or doing something where the screen isnt stationairy, there will be a ripple that runs down the screen during game play
how do we get rid of this? at least in mame?
THis happens on a) my dad's Dell desktop with high resolution LCD monitor, b) my laptop's monitor which is 1024x768 and c) my friends arcade machine with arcade monitor

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Title: Re: How do I get rid of ripples during gameplay?
Post by: Tritoch84 on December 17, 2004, 08:54:32 pm

This "ripple" is called "tearing". It's just the price of emulation.

Set MAME to use triple buffering, and your problems will be done away with.

If you can't, use SmoothMame, which forces all roms to be run at the same rate, not their odd weird funky one (like most capcom fighters.)

EDIT: I have no idea why this would happen on an arcade monitor and REAL board.

(unless he had some funky setup)