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Title: Mame screen res
Post by: speedklz on October 04, 2009, 08:32:43 pm

Is there some way to have mame choose the best res for a particular game and set it?

Title: Re: Mame screen res
Post by: u_rebelscum on October 05, 2009, 06:09:18 pm

"Best" depends on your monitor, the original game's res, your videocard, your OS, and other mame options used (like -effects or -artwork).

Current mame defaults to the desktop resolution, probably partially due to this is the best res for fixed res screens like LCDs, and the default for artwork, and if you want any effects.

If you have a multires CRT monitor, you can change the res, but mame doesn't do as well as it used to (and even that wasn't perfect, as there were variants that were better at picking res).

Enable -switchres and set the res with -resolution (and -resolution0, up to 3, for multiscreens).  There are apps that help set every game's resolutions in there own ini files.

Title: Re: Mame screen res
Post by: speedklz on October 05, 2009, 06:17:05 pm

Yea thats what I want is for each game to have its native res displayed that way GT98 filles the screen and so does gauntlet II, I am changing by hand now, but I would like to have it done automaticly.. I am using an arcade cab monitor.

Title: Re: Mame screen res
Post by: u_rebelscum on October 05, 2009, 07:03:52 pm

I never used 'em, but Mame Resolution Tool (http://mamewah.mameworld.info/downloads.htm) might be what you want.  

Someone with more hards on info on the options?

Title: Re: Mame screen res
Post by: speedklz on October 05, 2009, 07:14:33 pm

laughing in his best Beavis and Butt Head voice... He said "hard" hu hu hu hu



lol

Title: Re: Mame screen res
Post by: Ummon on October 05, 2009, 08:30:34 pm

Dude. Read MAME/MAME32 help file and the monitor wiki.

Title: Re: Mame screen res
Post by: speedklz on October 07, 2009, 11:10:27 am

Thanks RebelScum, I had seen that program sometime back but had forgot about it, it seems to do what I need. I just wanted something to change the resulution to the games native res so that they fit and looked correct when I played them. Using a set res just didnt look right, some games were cropped others were chopped. So thanks YOU THA MAN!