Mame resolution help - Avres and MameWa resolution tools?

[jhuie]

I've been fighting with this for a couple days now so I'm turning to you guys for help. It's probably simple....

I've generated all new .ini files for Mame using both the Avres tool and the MameWa resolution tool. They both appear to work correctly and generate nice lists of .ini files.

But when I run the games they just look wrong.  My test case that I keep coming back to is Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.  It has about 4 inches of unused space all the way around the border so, in effect, I've got a tiny game playing in the middle of the monitor.  Other games have other wrong looking resolutions.  Some look close but many are way off.

I'm using ArcadeVGA on Windows XP and have followed the directions to the letter.  What could I be doing wrong?  Heeeeeeelp please!

[jhuie]

Nobody?  My frustration level is officially set at HIGH now. 

I'm just trying to focus on getting ONE game to work right to see what I'm doing wrong.  Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, according to MAWS runs at 320x224.  If I go into Mame and run it at that resolution, It's still tiny and in the middle of the screen.  Mame, indicates that it's actually displaying at that resolution.  Bezels are turned off.  It draws a white border around then ENTIRE screen so it looks like it's going to be perfect but then, no, it's small. 

I'm about to burn this thing to the ground.  What the heck am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help?  Please?

[PlayingKarrde]

Unfortunately I'm also in the same boat and was about to post a topic on this before seeing yours.

Some things that I did to narrow down the issue, which still not working for me, might give you some better results:

1) Which version of MAME are you running? I originally was using MameUI32 but heard that it doesn't look for the ini files so switched to regular MAME.
2) Make sure your ini folder is set correctly in your mame.ini file (in the ini folder in mame)
3) I'm sure you've already done this but the MAME setting in mame.ini also need to be

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#
# VIDEO OPTIONS
#
video ddraw
numscreens 1
window 0
maximize 1
keepaspect 1
prescale 1
effect none
pause_brightness 0.65
waitvsync 0
syncrefresh 0
#
# DIRECTDRAW-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
hwstretch 0
#
# FULL SCREEN OPTIONS
#
triplebuffer 0
switchres 1Since you are having the same problems as me though I'm sure you've done this already.

Sorry I can't be more help though as I'm also struggling desperately through this. If I find out a solution I'll be sure to post it. I'd appreciate it if you did the same

[opt2not]

Perhaps Andy can shed some light on this one.  He's pretty good with supporting his products.  Here's a bump!

[PlayingKarrde]

OK I finally figured out what the problem was.

Arcade VGA Res was creating a bunch of resolutions for my games that the AVGA that I have isn't supported. For instance all Neo Geo games were set to 321x240 but my card supports 320x240. Since it couldn't find the correct resolution it flipped out and displayed something very odd.

I downloaded the MAMEWAH Mame Res tool instead, made a new config containing the resolutions my card DOES run and sent the roms through that. Now... it's perfect. Couldn't be happier.