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Neo Geo and mame in same cabinet screen height issues.
venom:
Cheers calamity I know understand that I need to sacrifice neo resolution or the mame/pc settings. Having tinkered with it today. I have altered the vertical pot to almost stretch the screen to its vertical limit, minus a little bit. I only have a 14inch screen so dont want to loose too much ! Then I did the following and its looking FANTASTIC. There is a few lines missing top and bottom from rtype but pcaman now looks great !
Thanks for all the help and a lot of forum posts on here ! Need a good all in one guide :)
Anyway if this helps others
I tried several different settings, anyway this is what has fixed it in the end.
Deleted c:\emulators\mame32\mame.ini AGAIN
Renamed my c:\emulators\mame32\ini FOLDER to INIOLD
Renamed groovymame.exe as too long to type its full name !
Went to DOS typed C:\emulators\mame32\groovymame.exe -CC
Then installed catalyst driver 6.5 from here
http://mame.3feetunder.com/windows-ati-crt-emudriver/
Interestingly they reccomend the below so if my shutlle ever blows up, it will be a cheaper alternatvive to arcade vga .....
Some cards listed above have known problems with low dot clocks.
For best results, a Radeon 9250 (AGP), Radeon X300-X600 (PCIe),
or Radeon HD 4xxx (PCIe) card is recommended.
Rebooted and Windows XP screen was fine but then screen picture unreadable as wrong frequency\settings.
Whoops forgot to set soft15K !
Restarted XP pressed F8
Loaded windows in VGA NOT Safe mode
Installed Soft 15K again and selected the graphics card. Thought is was a 7000 and accepted it fine.
Rebooted
Started Groovymame.exe and voila pacman fixed and looking pretty decent (at last can see bottom of maze and ghosts) !
Reconfigured Gameex to use Groovymame.exe instead of mame.exe.
Rebooted again and voila all works near perfect, even robocop (never got that working before) and final fight looks brill spot on for the screen.
Yes a slight hit on rtypre but it's hardly noticeable if you dont look for it, its a few lines top and bottom. Perhaps I can make a custom ini for that (If I can be bothered).
Thanks everyone forgot how good mame was in a cabinet !
Calamity:
Hi venom, thanks for describing the process you followed.
--- Quote from: venom on December 24, 2012, 04:07:16 pm ---Rebooted and Windows XP screen was fine but then screen picture unreadable as wrong frequency\settings.
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That's because you probably didn't set 640x480 before rebooting.
--- Quote ---Whoops forgot to set soft15K !
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Just in case someone reads your post, Soft-15kHz is not a necessary step with CRT_Emudriver, as both do much the same thing. It won't be harmful anyway, in fact when combined with GM's ability to tweak the refresh rates the results can be pretty decent. It's just that by default it only installs 32 resolutions, vs the more than 100 that CRT_Emudriver will install. You can re-run vmmaker at any point in the future in case you want to reinstall the resolutions.
venom:
Merry Xmas.
aah I see that would make more sense as I could always see the XP screen until it went into windows, so yep screen res rather than frequency.
Must admit as its now all working really well , I am probably just going to leave it as it is. I did download arcadeos and vmmaker but to be honest never used them !
Is it worthwhile running the vMmaker or just leave as be ?
Calamity:
--- Quote from: venom on December 27, 2012, 07:58:23 am ---Is it worthwhile running the vMmaker or just leave as be ?
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If you're happy with it, don't touch it ;D
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