Mala/Mame display of horizontal games

[jlachett]

Good Morning,

New poster here. I've scanned the net, read what wiki's I could find, and scrolled through several pages of this forum, but I can't find an answer to this, so I registered here and hopeing by asking this, to find something.

I've been using Mala and Mame together for about a year or so. Love it. Hard drive crashed and I had to setup everything again from scratch. I can NOT figure out get my games to display properly. Vertical games, no problem. They look fine. Horizontal games are "squished" into, what I'm guessing, is a vertical display format. I can't for the life of me remember how I resolved this the first time but I "think" it had something to do with a setting in the rom command line in the mame config of mala, but I'm not positive. "Joust" for example is displayed "right side up" but it's squished sideways so that it's "skinny" but it is legible.

I have looked at all the config settings for mame with regards to display, I have most set to auto, etc and have spent hours trying and testing other settings with no success.

Any help/links/suggestions would be very, very welcome.

Thank you,
John L