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Title: MAME vector games look DIM on my TV screen!! (S-VIDEO)
Post by: ARTIFACT on August 06, 2007, 06:11:21 pm

What MAME settings could I try to improve the visibility of vector games on the 27" SONY TRINITRON TV I use as monitor in my cabinet?

The game is there, but looks VERY DIM and almost invisible.

I somehow recall vector thickness/etc settings from when I first played with MAME years ago... Am I doomed to never enjoy a good ol' asteroids on my TV screen, or do you have the solution to my problem?

Thank you for your help!

Title: Re: MAME vector games look DIM on my TV screen!! (S-VIDEO)
Post by: mcfreak on August 06, 2007, 07:16:16 pm

Should be this in your mame.ini
#
# CORE VECTOR OPTIONS
#
antialias                 1
beam                      1.0
flicker                   0

Set Beam to be thicker...

Title: Re: MAME vector games look DIM on my TV screen!! (S-VIDEO)
Post by: ARTIFACT on August 07, 2007, 12:16:57 am

yay!

Thank you so much for this...
My cab is all taken apart right now (middle of building it) but I
ll make sure to test this next time it's up and running :)