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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: tyson171 on June 10, 2009, 10:11:44 pm
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Finally completely finished my cab! Now the fine tuning begins.....i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong, but whenever I open up a .ini file for say frogger for mame and try to change the resolution, then save it, it doesn't reflect the change when I open up the game? What am i doing wrong? I'm using soft15hz, all resolutions seem to be fine, and I used arcadevgares to preconfig all of my res files(which does display the right resolutions from the ones preconfigured from arcadevgares, but won't let me modify the resolutions). I included all of my .ini files as well. (also using a 25" well gardner arcade monitor)
Here are my .ini files:
Mame.ini
#
# WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS
#
video ddraw
numscreens 1
window 0
maximize 1
keepaspect 1
prescale 1
effect none
waitvsync 0
syncrefresh 0
#
# DIRECTDRAW-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
hwstretch 0
#
# DIRECT3D-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
d3dversion 9
filter 1
#
# PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen auto
aspect auto
resolution auto
view auto
screen0 auto
aspect0 auto
resolution0 auto
view0 auto
screen1 auto
aspect1 auto
resolution1 auto
view1 auto
screen2 auto
aspect2 auto
resolution2 auto
view2 auto
screen3 auto
aspect3 auto
resolution3 auto
view3 auto
#
# FULL SCREEN OPTIONS
#
triplebuffer 0
switchres 1
full_screen_brightness 1.0
full_screen_contrast 1.0
full_screen_gamma 1.0
#
# WINDOWS SOUND OPTIONS
#
audio_latency 2
#
# INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS
#
dual_lightgun 0
Arcadevga.ini
[CONFIG]
Stretch=Y
StretchVal=288
Rotation=H
SingleScreen=Y
Overwrite=Y
Algorithm=P
StretchVector=N
Dash=Y
StandardView=N
[MAME]
MAMEpath=C:\HyperSpin\Emulators\Mame\
MAMEexe=mame.exe
Here is an example frogger.ini
So this is the original .ini
## frogger ##
-screen0 \\.\DISPLAY1
-switchres
-hwstretch
-nobezel
-nobackdrop
-resolution 512x288
-resolution0 512x288@0
and just playing around i tried changing it to
## frogger ##
-screen0 \\.\DISPLAY1
-switchres
-hwstretch
-nobezel
-nobackdrop
-resolution 352x256
-resolution0 352x256@0
I know that will mess up the refesh ect. but i just wanted to see how it would affect the game, but it doesn't change anything? Please steer me in the right direction! Thanks in advance!
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Do you have those "-" marks in your frogger.ini? Remove them.
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Thank you very very much, this seemed to do the trick by removing the -. Now i'm going down the long road to try and get games to look right.....urgh its so painful. I"m not sure whats going on, but when i change to certain resolutions, i don't see any differences, i'm thinking my video card doesn't support some (couldn't get pacman to look right, unless i messed with the vsize, couldn't get a res to display the high score at the top). I used the arcaderes tool from the ultimarc site, going to try and maybe use the other tool to autoconfig all of the games and see if it gets closer. Just need to do a lot of fine tuning and get a better understanding of how resolutions work. Also have to see if my card just doesn't display certain res (like when i switched from 392x288 to 362x288 (just an example, can't remember the exact ones) i didn't see a difference, but when i changed to a horizontal res (just to make sure the changes were working, like 256x256, it looked crazy, so i know it is changing the res, just certain ones don't make a differecne, mostly just vertical. Same with frogger, i couldn't get that game to look good at all, had to do 640x480 with hwstretch, and it just looked to small. Just need to mess with it a lot more, still not sure how to know whether interlace is on or not either....confusion confusion....lol, having fun though :)