Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: SONIC on January 12, 2003, 11:48:23 am
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'lo guys :)
I have a cab with a 25" arcade-monitor in it, a pc running Windows98 and Mame32 on it.
Everything runs very nice so far, I have one problem though..! When I want to play a game of say BombJack or some other game that original was designed for a vertical screen, Mame32 decides to scale the whole picture way too far down... I mean, the is a black border in the top and bottom of the screen which is about 5-10 cm high, and then there is a black border in both left and right side which are about 10-15 cm wide...
This also happenes in games like R-Type 1+2, Ghouls'n'ghosts etc...
Is there anything you can do to make that stop somehow? I have set Mame32 to "fullscreen" the games, but in some games it just wont :(
I have also read about the .cfg file that could be edited (where the monitor=arcade thing has to be typed), but that's only for dosmame, or? Can't seem to find any cfg files in mame32's folders :(
Any suggestions what to do to get it fullscreened in every single game???
Thanks for all replies in advance :)
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try using mame 32 plus.
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what setting u using?
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Uhm, lemme see if I can remember it (machine is off, and standing in an other room)...
Rez is 640x480 16 bit colors, at 15,7 Khz I think!!!
Anyhow... the Mame32 Plus I found is a cab-file... what am I supposed to do with such file?!
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gp here....
http://www.emusilent.net/mame/ (http://www.emusilent.net/mame/)
download this.....
www.emusilent.net/mame/download/mame32plus_062.4_bin.cab
(http://www.emusilent.net/mame/download/mame32plus_062.4_bin.cab)
and run it. instead of normal mame 32 see if it makes a difference.
if you open powerstrip ,
display profiles,advance timing options,custom res,
so that ur 640x480 res u are using apears in powerstrip.
can u cut the PowerStrip timing parameters u are using out off powerstip(use the copy timings to clipboard button)
it should look a bit like this
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640x480=640,16,64,80,480,1,3,14,24302,7
Generic timing details for 640x480:
HFP=16 HSW=64 HBP=80 kHz=30 VFP=1 VSW=3 VBP=14 Hz=61
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use WinRar to open it?
mame32 plus has a beter hardware stretch when i just use mame 32 on an arcade monitor i cant play some of the vertical games...........if i use mame 32plus it plays all games full screen at the correct aspect ratio when h/s is enabled
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Thanks for the tip, will try that... will report in when I know if it works :)
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Advancemame, which is usually the defacto answer to your question.
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net
Good luck!
-Mani
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er yer,
but we are to lazy to use advance mame........and this is about displaying the windows desktop aswell.
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Ahrg, can't get it to run :( it says it needs some file :(
Am also finding more and more games that's not filling out the screen, which makes 'em rather unplayable :(
Is there any god out there? If so, let him show me some mercy!!!
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what?.........so now u started praying?
use what i use all games fullscreen,at correct aspect ratio
only downside that games use h/w stretch.