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Need Help Making a MAME Machine out of a Mortal Kombat 1 Cabinet
paigeoliver:
Your Mortal Kombat monitor does not have a weird resolution. It is a standard arcade monitor (which can accept a bit of a range of input frequencies), it is the Mortal Kombat gameboard that outputs the video at a slightly off frequency. There are multiple ways to deal with that in mame.
robneal81:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 09, 2013, 02:52:05 pm ---Your Mortal Kombat monitor does not have a weird resolution. It is a standard arcade monitor (which can accept a bit of a range of input frequencies), it is the Mortal Kombat gameboard that outputs the video at a slightly off frequency. There are multiple ways to deal with that in mame.
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Is there a way to set MAME to simply change the PC's resolution to whatever the native of the game is? Theoretically, wouldn't that make every game look like the original?
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: robneal81 on September 09, 2013, 02:57:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 09, 2013, 02:52:05 pm ---Your Mortal Kombat monitor does not have a weird resolution. It is a standard arcade monitor (which can accept a bit of a range of input frequencies), it is the Mortal Kombat gameboard that outputs the video at a slightly off frequency. There are multiple ways to deal with that in mame.
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Is there a way to set MAME to simply change the PC's resolution to whatever the native of the game is? Theoretically, wouldn't that make every game look like the original?
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The frequency thing is more like a frames per second thing than a "resolution" thing. With Mortal Kombat running at 53 frames per second (thus feeding the video at that rate) and almost everything else running at 60. The monitor can handle either, but usually not without tweaking the adjustment knobs a bit. If you aren't an absolute MK purist you can just Vsync it to run at 60hz and it will run just a teeny bit fast.
robneal81:
Well, that's the thing: At the moment, nothing looks perfect via MAME, only the original MK PCB's. The best example is in MK1, after choosing a fighter: When you see the screen that scrolls through the opponents, its choppy via MAME and perfectly smooth via the original PCB.
I was hoping to use ArcadePerfect to tweak the PC's refresh rate to match MK's perfectly, but there seems to be Windows 7-related issues and it keeps crashing. I could always switch to XP, but before I do, I'd like to make sure there isn't an easy way to do this.
How would you suggest setting my PC's resolution and refresh rate to match MK's perfectly?
paigeoliver:
I have no suggestions on how to do that.
You really need to adjust your monitor to what your computer is putting out like I suggested way back at the beginning at not try to adjust your computer to what your monitor was adjusted for.
The Mortal Kombat games don't play nice with other games on Jamma switchers.
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