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Author Topic: Arcade VGA, old arcade monitors and dmame, talk amoungst yourselfs...  (Read 1415 times)

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I am running dmame with advmenu for the front end in 98 dos.  I have a old 25" Sega arcade monitor and the ArcadeVGA card.  The monitor is fairly sesitive on the vertical frequency so I ran the avres utility to create the ini files for each game.  After I did this most of the games do work (although now they have a picture of their monitor bezel around them) but, for example, Ms Pacman is still rolling.  I guess it was my understanding that the avres utility was supposed to set the resolutions so they will all work on a 60Hz monitor.

I think I am having a major brain fart and any help would be greatly appreciated! :P
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Re:Arcade VGA, old arcade monitors and dmame, talk amoungst yourselfs...
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2003, 01:29:21 pm »
FYI, I am running a search on the boards but I also thought I would ask the question.


Just dont want to give the wrong impression.
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Re:Arcade VGA, old arcade monitors and dmame, talk amoungst yourselfs...
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2003, 01:45:45 pm »
Take out the bezel artwork in mame.ini  Your forcing it to do 800x600 which is interlaced and your monitor cannot handle it.

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Re:Arcade VGA, old arcade monitors and dmame, talk amoungst yourselfs...
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2003, 03:18:29 pm »
some stuff here I've had teh same problem before... (well i didn't enable artwork... )

hmph... I dunno.  I still haven't totally solved it myself.

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Re:Arcade VGA, old arcade monitors and dmame, talk amoungst yourselfs...
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2003, 03:52:02 pm »
I'll fix the mame.ini tonight.  Other than that I am also going to try something that Pyronious suggested and use a custome ArcadeVGA.txt file for the avres program.

I'll let y'all know how it works out for me.  I am slowly getting the MameTiki complete.  Now if I can just stop playing games long enough for me to mount my controllers!
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Re:Arcade VGA, old arcade monitors and dmame, talk amoungst yourselfs...
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2003, 03:49:34 am »
im feeling ferklempt talk amongst yourselves

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