Mame Aspect Ratio

[Ledsigns80]

I was finally able to get Mame up and running using mGalaxy to my liking   Anyway wanted to know if there was a way for mame to launch in a 16:9 format or better put for the 4:3 game screen stretched across a 16:9 monitor.   I know it may not look the best but was just curious.

[yotsuya]

I was finally able to get Mame up and running using mGalaxy to my liking   Anyway wanted to know if there was a way for mame to launch in a 16:9 format or better put for the 4:3 game screen stretched across a 16:9 monitor.   I know it may not look the best but was just curious.

You really want to do this?

[Haze]

I was finally able to get Mame up and running using mGalaxy to my liking   Anyway wanted to know if there was a way for mame to launch in a 16:9 format or better put for the 4:3 game screen stretched across a 16:9 monitor.   I know it may not look the best but was just curious.

You really want to do this?

it's dumb, but yeah, it's the most common thing I get asked about MAME IRL, people can't stand black bars and would rather have the game stretched full width, even vertical shooters like DoDonPachi... it's sacrilege, but there yo go..

[yotsuya]

Just use bezel artwork to fill the black spaces. 

[monkeybomb]

Honestly, I would just play the bad retro ports on xbox live before going through the trouble of setting up something with arcade controls, if the final product is that distorted.  Or even a jaks plug and play on an old 13" TV.  There's lots of 19" TVs on craigslist for $10.  VGA to RCA converters are also cheap at this point.  Yotsuya's suggestion is a good one if you really are stuck with the 16:9 monitor.  I'd even go with a posterboard cut to the right size, as a bezel, before ruining the game.

[Ledsigns80]

Just use bezel artwork to fill the black spaces. 

I like that idea a lot actually is there a how to on how to do that???i wonder if Mgalaxy supports it?

[big10p]

Just use bezel artwork to fill the black spaces. 

I like that idea a lot actually is there a how to on how to do that???i wonder if Mgalaxy supports it?

You may like to look at my widescreen artwork packs:
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=324578&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

[lamprey]

I was finally able to get Mame up and running using mGalaxy to my liking   Anyway wanted to know if there was a way for mame to launch in a 16:9 format or better put for the 4:3 game screen stretched across a 16:9 monitor.   I know it may not look the best but was just curious.

Six posts and not a single anwer to your question, weird. Someone maybe able to give you better specific directions, but I'm not on a computer that has MAME nor do I do this, but I think you need to change two things in the INI file:

keepaspect                0

and I think you also need to set the aspect:

aspect                    16:9

There is also HWSTRETCH, I don't know if that needs to be adjusted or not.

[woosdom]

I was finally able to get Mame up and running using mGalaxy to my liking   Anyway wanted to know if there was a way for mame to launch in a 16:9 format or better put for the 4:3 game screen stretched across a 16:9 monitor.   I know it may not look the best but was just curious.

You really want to do this?

that doesn't have to happen if you use horizont.ini and vertical.ini

keep aspect on the vertical.ini

but bezels are the way  to go

[yotsuya]

I was finally able to get Mame up and running using mGalaxy to my liking   Anyway wanted to know if there was a way for mame to launch in a 16:9 format or better put for the 4:3 game screen stretched across a 16:9 monitor.   I know it may not look the best but was just curious.

You really want to do this?

that doesn't have to happen if you use horizont.ini and vertical.ini

keep aspect on the vertical.ini

but bezels are the way  to go

That was a hypothetical.  But still,  if you're gonna stretch the horizontal,  you'd probably be the type to stretch the vertical as well.

Bezels rule.

[woosdom]

yep. I stretched out the horizontal games on my living room setup and left the verticals with bezels.  don't mind them stretched but the vert games just look way too funky.  any other setup I use the bezels when using widescreen