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Title: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: dougman on May 08, 2006, 01:49:43 am

What I find really annoying is that playchoice games use 2 screens (effectively a 4:6 ratio), but mame scales the 4:6 image onto a 4:3 screen! so that immediately reduces the image down to half size. 

I want to know if you can actually rotate the game 90 degrees in mame so it will actually fill most of a vertically oriented screen.  Rotating in drivers is not an option (because it doesnt work).

Title: Re: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: destructor on May 08, 2006, 07:07:08 am

Change ratio or disable 'Strech using hardware'. Second option works fine if I select rotation in MAME. I use mameplus.

Title: Re: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: dougman on May 08, 2006, 12:20:56 pm

Quote from: destructor on May 08, 2006, 07:07:08 am

Change ratio or disable 'Strech using hardware'. Second option works fine if I select rotation in MAME. I use mameplus.

I use commandline mame.  Is the rotate option only in mameplus?  I use mamewah as a launcher, I hope it works. Thanks :)

Title: Re: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 08, 2006, 03:06:34 pm

rtfm


use -ror or -rol respectively. 

Dual screen games aren't given any special treatment in mame, they are essentially a single screen game.

Title: Re: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: exiges on May 11, 2006, 04:30:32 am

I'm curious why anyone would want to play PlayChoice-10 games (when the individual  original games they were based on are far superior)

Title: Re: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: Pi on May 11, 2006, 10:10:14 am

Quote from: exiges on May 11, 2006, 04:30:32 am

I'm curious why anyone would want to play PlayChoice-10 games (when the individual  original games they were based on are far superior)

Sometimes I wonder the same. The original Nintendo games are way better. But some PC10 games are slightly different from the originals, in a way that makes them valuable beyond the nostalgia.

Title: Re: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 13, 2006, 03:21:45 am

Actually they aren't.  They are for the most part, direct dumps of their nes counter-parts. 

Now nintendo VS games, they are slighty different.  Vs. Super Mario Bros, for example, had slight variences in the level design. 

Title: Re: rotate playchoice-10 games?
Post by: Pi on May 13, 2006, 08:07:15 am

Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 13, 2006, 03:21:45 am

Now nintendo VS games, they are slighty different.  Vs. Super Mario Bros, for example, had slight variences in the level design. 

You're right, they're the VS games and not the PC10 the ones which are different. My fault.

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