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Title: Vertical games showing ugly border in MAME v110
Post by: MrQuan on December 06, 2006, 10:38:48 am
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed a thin border down one side of the game area when playing vertical games? (noticeable in DoDonPachi to be particular)

I'm using a 60cm TV, MAME v110, and a NVidia GeForce 7600GS using component output, constantly 720 x 576 @ 60Hz.

It's no big deal I guess, just annoying.  It seams to be *just* outside the game area - so a screenshot won't pick it up.  Here's my crude attemp at photography...  This is the DoDonPachi copyright screen.

(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/867/pb050570ql1.jpg)  (http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8783/pb050571vj2.jpg)

Does anyone know what's causing this line?  It's not my TV ghosting obviously, because as seen in the photos it's happening even when black.  Is it MAME?
Title: Re: Vertical games showing ugly border in MAME v110
Post by: headkaze on December 06, 2006, 08:02:44 pm
I believe this is a normal effect, but I'm not sure exactly what causes it.

You could download Mr Do's Bezels (http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/mame_artwork.html) which should help cover it up.
Title: Re: Vertical games showing ugly border in MAME v110
Post by: rockmes on December 06, 2006, 11:15:05 pm
l had the same issue and the problem was, l use direct3d in mame and l was using version 9 but now have switched  to verson 8 and the problem has gone. its an option in your mame.ini to configure. if you use mame32 its under - default game options ,- display. But like l said l use direct3d cos of my monitor and graphics card.
Title: Re: Vertical games showing ugly border in MAME v110
Post by: MrQuan on December 07, 2006, 12:01:49 am
l had the same issue and the problem was, l use direct3d in mame and l was using version 9 but now have switched  to verson 8 and the problem has gone.

Ahhhh, thank you very much.  I did recently change my mame ini from 'auto' to '9' for the d3d version (hoping to utilise my graphics card better).  I'll change it to '8'.

headkaze - I found that link very interesting, I have been looking for a good artwork resource actually, thanks :)

Thanks for the replies and suggestions :cheers: