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Title: Can/Should games in mame play at 800X600?
Post by: thetered on July 07, 2005, 12:42:18 pm

I have XP and mamewah to run at 800X600 with no problems but when I launch a game it scrolls, so I went to the games (metal slug X) ini file and changed the res from 620x480 (or something like that) to 800x600 but the game still scrolls when I launch it.

I am using an old wells 19in monitor with arcade vga...

Title: Re: Help with mamewah/xp V Hold
Post by: DaemonCollector on July 07, 2005, 12:48:06 pm

Make sure that the resolutions for XP and MameWah are the same. If they are different, than the hold settings on them are different.

Title: Re: Help with mamewah/xp V Hold
Post by: thetered on July 07, 2005, 06:11:24 pm

How do I check that for mamewah?  ???

Title: Re: Help with mamewah/xp V Hold
Post by: thetered on July 07, 2005, 06:57:03 pm

nm i figured it out, thanks!

Title: Re: Can/Should games in mame play at 800X600?
Post by: thetered on July 07, 2005, 08:09:49 pm

fixed first problem so changed the topic and question.

Title: Re: Can/Should games in mame play at 800X600?
Post by: Minwah on July 08, 2005, 06:45:43 am

No, don't use 800x600 on an arcade monitor.  You should use low-res modes, as the ArcadeVGA is inteded (eg 321x240, 368x240 etc...)

Try my MAME Resolution Tool to generate suitable ini files for you to achieve this.

Title: Re: Can/Should games in mame play at 800X600?
Post by: Lilwolf on July 08, 2005, 08:55:34 am

btw, this is because arcadevga -> arcade monitor supports 640x480+ but in interlaced mode.  This makes the monitor draw every other line every pass... Then the next pass it does the other.  This gives flashing and is very annoying. 

640x288 I believe is the highest resolution that you can get without interlaced mode.

Title: Re: Can/Should games in mame play at 800X600?
Post by: Minwah on July 08, 2005, 09:32:41 am

Quote from: Lilwolf on July 08, 2005, 08:55:34 am

640x288 I believe is the highest resolution that you can get without interlaced mode.

Yep, but I find this mode a bit useless personally.

Of course the interlaced modes are of use, for fitting medium/high res. games onto a standard res. screen.  Or squashing vertical games onto a horizontal screen...but otherwise you should use the low-res modes.