Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: gsoul on November 20, 2005, 06:49:13 pm
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I've just installed ADVMAME after having too many issues with dmame.
Anyways, I can play most games great with ADVMAME, but alot of them still have resolution issues etc.
According to the docs, I need to run ADVCFG and ADVV to adjust this stuff, however I cant get into these programs, they're just garbled, I'm guessing that means that the two programs are trying to use an invalid range themselves.
I'm running an ArcadeVGA card with AdvanceMame .0100 (whatever the latest version is)
Like I said, I can run games, but I really want to get these settings configured. Example Double Dragon II is a split screen.. unplayable..
I'm sure I'm missing something simple.
Heres a snippit of my advmame.rc
device_svgaline_divideclock no
device_svgaline_skipboard 0
device_vbeline_16bit_clock_multiplier 1
device_vbeline_8bit_clock_multiplier 1
device_vbeline_clock_multiplier 1
device_vbeline_mode bigger
device_video auto
device_video_curso auto
device_video_clock 5 - 50 / 15.73 / 60
device_video_doublescan yes
device_video_fastchange no
device_video_interlace yes
device_video_output_auto
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I'd guess that its a compatibility issue between the ArcadeVGA and AdvMame. Advmame is autodetecting video hardware in your settings, so it probably things its dealing with a standard radeon card, when in fact you have a custom hardware modded radeon (the ArcadeVGA).
Its worth pointing out here that you are trying to do 2 things at the same time that are both independantly designed to achieve the same thing. AdvanceMame is designed to force normal pc gfx cards to produce native 15Khz arcade signals. ArcadeVGA is pc gfx card hardware modded to produce to native 15Khz arcade signals.
I would either not use Advmame, or turn off the fancy automatic gfx generation it has - not sure exactly how, you will probably need to tell it to use VESA modes only or standard SDL library gfx (whatever it uses). This will be simliar to just using normal mame with the ArcadeVGA - it has lots of native arcade modes programmed into it, so should be fine...
I can't give more exact details on changing the advmame setup as I don't use it.