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Title: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: starcrudph on October 17, 2005, 03:48:58 am

hi. i wanna use advancemame/menu using an rgb monitor, how do i set it up the first time, coz i figure that it cant display correctly at first so how do i go and navigate in dos mode like in advcfg,advv etc. thanks.

Title: Re: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: RayB on October 17, 2005, 11:45:13 am

use a normal PC monitor first.

Title: Re: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: starcrudph on October 17, 2005, 08:38:55 pm

ok thanks, any more tips and advice?

Title: Re: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: RayB on October 17, 2005, 11:21:12 pm

Print out the installation files. They are very lengthy and you WILL need to consult them as you're going along configuring settings. It's not very straight-forward, so follow all instructions closely.

Title: Re: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: gmorse on October 18, 2005, 10:43:52 pm

what are you using for a graphics card and are you using a jpac?  Dos or Linux?

You might also want to keep arcadeos in mind if advmenu gives problems.  I had no problem getting advmame working with games from the command line, but for whatever reason I couldn't get advmenu to work.  Kept giving me a no supported graphics mode error.  Arcadeos worked like gangbusters though.

Title: Re: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: RayB on October 20, 2005, 11:50:45 am

Quote from: gmorse on October 18, 2005, 10:43:52 pm

what are you using for a graphics card and are you using a jpac?

Title: Re: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: gmorse on October 20, 2005, 09:42:31 pm

Yeah, I did that and I still couldn't get it to work.  Got frustrated as hell after a few hours and just switched to arcadeos, which worked the first time, so I never bothered going back and trying to figure it out.  I'm sure it's something stupid like I fat-fingered a character in the advmenu.rc.  One of these days I'll go back and get it working, but arcadeos has been pretty good for me so far.

Title: Re: setting up resolutions for the first time
Post by: wpcmame on October 21, 2005, 01:34:17 am

Quote from: RayB on October 20, 2005, 11:50:45 am

You need to copy over the graphics mode info from your ADVMAME.rc file over to the ADVMENU.rc file.

This is how advmenu works:

If there is a modeline called "default_graph" available it will be used. All other modelines are ignored.

If "default_graph" isn't found it will use the parameters display_width and device_video_format to generate a modeline.

Best way to run advmenu is to calibrate a modeline that looks fine on the monitor and then call this "default_graph"