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MAME: To upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question!
mark shaker:
--- Quote from: JustMichael on August 23, 2010, 02:53:03 pm ---Why consider upgrading the computer in your Mame cabinet?
Let me explain the question. Please understand I never think about upgrading the computer in my Mame cabinet first. Instead I think about upgrading my main computer. Whenever I do upgrade that computer, I then have a spare computer that I put in the Mame cabinet to replace the one that is currently in there.
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I upgraded my main PC to a quad-core earlier this year. The PC it replaced was no faster than my current MAME Cab.
- Mark
JustMichael:
I just tried Robotron and Joust in Mame .139 and they took up almost the entire screen. In the Mame.ini file I do have:
hwstretch 1
Perhaps yours is set to 0 and that is why it isn't being stretched?
mark shaker:
--- Quote from: JustMichael on August 23, 2010, 03:06:50 pm ---I just tried Robotron and Joust in Mame .139 and they took up almost the entire screen. In the Mame.ini file I do have:
hwstretch 1
Perhaps yours is set to 0 and that is why it isn't being stretched?
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Thanks! I'll check that out tonight. The older MAMEUI had a menu setting for enabling the stretching, when it was removed, I probably didn't think to look in the .INI file.
- Mark
releasedtruth:
I've also been using MAMEUIFX for several years as the command line in GameEx. Haven't noticed much difference, if any, when using the standard .138 MAME code. I do like the backup front end because sometimes games wig out in GameEx but work in MAMEUI
Ginsu Victim:
I just keep the UI exe in my mame folder, but run the command line version through a frontend. That way if I want to tweak things without going into the INI, I can just do it from the UI version. Also good to have for recording gameplay for the competitions, though I've only competed once.
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