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Title: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: RXII on June 14, 2007, 01:56:07 am

Hi guys,
            I am currently finalising the setup on my arcade PC and setting up my favorite game list with Mala (Awesome FE! :applaud:). Anyway I am using Mame v.106 and have a problem with a couple of games (defender & TMNT so far) that causes the screen to move to the left of the monitor. All my other games that I have loaded on are fine as well as the FE....all central. I have done a search but couldn't find anything (bit hard to explain in a search). Would anyone know what the go is?
I am building an Aussie lowboy (nearly done) which I will put up in the projects soon....it came to a bit of a standstill in the last few months.
Any help would be great....I certainly know there is plenty going around on here!!  ;)
Cheers,

Simon.

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: shorthair on June 14, 2007, 02:53:04 pm

PC hardware and monitor? Are you running native?

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: RXII on June 14, 2007, 05:19:58 pm

Hi, thanks for the reply. It is a P4 2.2ghz PC running a 21" PC monitor. Not sure about the native side of it???

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: ahofle on June 14, 2007, 05:30:48 pm

Try forcing resolution to 640x480 or 800x600 for those two games and see if that helps.

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: RXII on June 14, 2007, 05:35:50 pm

Thanks I will give that a go when I get home and let you know.

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: shorthair on June 14, 2007, 06:45:14 pm

Seems he's just running DD or D3D so that behavior is weird. I don't use MaLa, but I can't think it would do anything like that.

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: Anubis_au on June 15, 2007, 01:00:40 am

Woohoo for another lowboy build!! :P

Can't wait for the project thread...

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: RXII on June 15, 2007, 07:02:31 am

Hi guys,
              I live in Australia and contribute to the "Aussie Arcade" forums as well, they are a great helpful bunch of guys.....just like here. Here is my build up page I have started over there...if I get time I will transfer it onto the projects page on here... Enjoy!

http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php?t=3865 (http://www.aussiearcade.com.au/showthread.php?t=3865)

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: RXII on June 15, 2007, 08:05:11 am

Quote from: ahofle on June 14, 2007, 05:30:48 pm

Try forcing resolution to 640x480 or 800x600 for those two games and see if that helps.

Hi, just trying to do what you suggested.....can you please tell me where to adjust this? Is there somewhere in the mame.ini file or do I do it through the game settings when the game is playing? Sorry to be a pain!  :-[

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: ahofle on June 15, 2007, 11:34:56 am

You can then create a tmnt.ini file in your mame/ini directory and add one line to set the resolution.  Like this:

resolution            640x480

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: RXII on June 16, 2007, 03:08:36 am

Quote from: ahofle on June 15, 2007, 11:34:56 am

You can then create a tmnt.ini file in your mame/ini directory and add one line to set the resolution.  Like this:

resolution            640x480

Awesome, thank you very much, the 800x600 work perfectly! The great thing about things like this going wrong is that you learn more and more about how all of this is setup. Priceless info, thanks again.  :notworthy:

Title: Re: Some games picture goes too far left of screen problem?
Post by: amerish on June 16, 2007, 09:55:52 am

I have a Radion video card that would force certain games off to the right side. I had to tweek the 3D setting on the card itself to get the games centered on screen.