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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: screaming on January 10, 2005, 05:42:49 pm
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Hey all! There's a new version of MAMEWAH Config out!
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=19017&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1&new=1105339017
I'm looking for beta testers and am poised and ready for the onslaught of bugs! :) If you have a few minutes and want to load (or already have) the latest version of MAMEWAH (http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=17662&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1&new=1105332842), please consider helping out!
-Steve
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Woo Hoo,
Thanks will give this a try as soon as I get the chance. THANKS!!!
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Yes get on it people, it is good :)
Also, last chance for your MAMEWAH bug reports - I'm *very* nearly done for a good while... 8)
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Yes get on it people, it is good :)
Also, last chance for your MAMEWAH bug reports - I'm *very* nearly done for a good while...
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List generation sometimes puts "horizontal" where it should be "vertical". ASTROF is one example. The game is 240x240.
You can alter this with the correct_orientations setting (mamewah.ini)...set to:
'no' to leave as per MAME,
'horizontal' to list 1:1 games as Horizontal,
'vertical' to list 1:1 ratio games as Vertical.
Anything other than 'no' will also correct MAME's 'wrong' orientations. I added this option to get maximum results (ie filtering) when using a monitor with fixed orientation. I never really understood why MAME has 'wrong' orientations anyway - did some of the original games have the screen around the 'wrong' way compared to their resolution??
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List generation sometimes puts "horizontal" where it should be "vertical". ASTROF is one example. The game is 240x240.
You can alter this with the correct_orientations setting (mamewah.ini)...set to:
'no' to leave as per MAME,
'horizontal' to list 1:1 games as Horizontal,
'vertical' to list 1:1 ratio games as Vertical.
Anything other than 'no' will also correct MAME's 'wrong' orientations.
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MAME's orientations are wrong for some games? I never noticed any games flipped on their sides or anything like that.
They don't have to be, but they can be incorrectly listed as horizontal/vertical (I don't know why). See 'mame -wrongorientation' - I don't actually understand what this means exactly...I haven't been through the games to check.
Seems to me that orientation and resolution should be independent. Can't you have a 240x224 game that is vertical?
Well yes :) But lets make an example: I use a horizontal screen, so lets l might want to display purely horizontal games, or more realistically games which will display well on a horizontal screen (as a rule games whose pixel width is greater than height) . So based on your 240x224 vertical example above, this would be filtered out of my horizontal games list - BUT, it would display fine (arguable perhaps on how much of a purist you are) on a horizontal screen. So, for this example this game would be best listed (for me) as horizontal, so it is not filtered out.
That alone is the reason I added this option - basically to maximise hits when filtering on orientation. Granted I might be alone in my thinking here, but you can turn it off as I say :)
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I was checking out MAMEWAH Config (great addition to a great front end ;D) and ran accross the following error (see error.jpg) when selecting tools --> game list editor.
I'm running this on an XP sp2 machine that's barely configured, mame's not configured and I have no roms on this system. I do have a dummy mame .ini that I was using.
Once I click continue I receive a blank application (see blank.jpg). I then have click file --> quit or x out the application (bad short term memory ;D) because I don't remember what I changed.
This issue is probably due to not having this system properly configured, but thought the error wasn't very graceful. Wanted pass it on.
Thanks,
DaGintM