Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: thrash242 on January 05, 2005, 02:35:21 am
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I admit that I don't remember ever playing vector games, as they were a little before my time. I think I may have seen Asteroids as a kid, but I don't remember really what it looked like.
That said, I really like some vector games like Asteroids and especially Tempest. What, in your opinion, are the most authentic looking settings for these vector games in MAME? I mean for intensity, flicker, translucency, etc. I'm running in 800x600, and I have antialiasing on. I'm currently using MAME .84, if it matters.
I realize that it won't ever look perfect, but I'd like it to be as authentic as possible.
BTW, do vector graphics look similar to oscilliscopes? I do have some experience with those. I'm thinking it's a similar principle, if not the exact same thing, so I was just curious.
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Set it at whatever you like. I have seen most real vector games in action and Mame can't even come close.
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best settings are anti aliasing at the highest resolution your monitor can handle. 1600x1200 if doable. You might have some speed issues though.
trouble is a good monitor for vector games are considered the worse for raster games. So there isn't a good one case senerio for a cab.
I would love to look at the anti aliasing code and see if it can be converted to 2x,4x, 8x, 16x versions. Because playing 3d games on my arcade monitor with a good 3d video card with 16x looks !@# beautiful! As good as on my SVGA monitor. I would love to see if it would help on vector games in mame. The algorithms aren't all that different..
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What would be a good setting to improve speed. Asteroids is unplayable on my 300mhz. I played around with a few settings, but nothing drastically changed. Adjusting the sound helped the most (sample rate).
Thanks.
jim
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What would be a good setting to improve speed.
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You haven't told us the most important thing... namely what type of display you are using.
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Good point. I'm currently using a 20" PC monitor, but once I get the money, I'll get a arcade "hybrid" monitor. The kind they have at Happ that are arcade montors, but plug into regular VGA.
My resolution is 800x600, even though I can currently do more, since the real monitor I get will probably only support 800x600.
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well hybrid montiors and regular computer monitors are good for vector games and pretty much nothing else imho (resolution is too high, wrong dot-pitch ratio, ect)
As the others said, a very high resolution is your best bet. You'll find that with tv's and rasters you have to adjust the beam settings in mame to make them thicker.