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Breaker:
Hi all,

I've been tinkering with my first MAMEWAH installation (v1.51) for a couple of weeks now and have a pretty good handle on things, but I have a few questions for which I can't track down answers:

1) I'm using a D9200 and AVGA and I noticed on the MAMEWAH FAQ that a resolution of 368x240 or 640x288 is recommended, but I've found that using these resolutions introduced a fair amount of flicker. However, after installing the Ultimarc patch for the D9200, and setting the MAMEWAH resolution to 640X480, things looked great...was I doing something wrong initially? Would I be advise to try 368X240 or 640X288 again?

2) It was recommended to me that I turn on 'triple buffering' in MAME to alleviate screen tearing but I noticed that, when turned on, the sound on many games became very poor - turning off triple buffering resolved the problem so this switch was definitely the cause. My question is, can MAMEWAH AND/OR MAME be configured to turn on triple bufffering only for certain games - without having to set every other game to turn it off?  

Thanks for any help!

Minwah:

--- Quote from: breaker on October 31, 2004, 12:57:11 am ---1) I'm using a D9200 and AVGA and I noticed on the MAMEWAH FAQ that a resolution of 368x240 or 640x288 is recommended, but I've found that using these resolutions introduced a fair amount of flicker. However, after installing the Ultimarc patch for the D9200, and setting the MAMEWAH resolution to 640X480, things looked great...was I doing something wrong initially? Would I be advise to try 368X240 or 640X288 again?

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Not sure why you got flicker...usually it happens when the monitor is displaying an interlaced picture (but that shouldn't be the case with the D9200).  Try the low-resolutions again...


--- Quote ---2) It was recommended to me that I turn on 'triple buffering' in MAME to alleviate screen tearing but I noticed that, when turned on, the sound on many games became very poor - turning off triple buffering resolved the problem so this switch was definitely the cause. My question is, can MAMEWAH AND/OR MAME be configured to turn on triple bufffering only for certain games - without having to set every other game to turn it off?  

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Use game-specific mame ini files, eg puckman.ini:

triplebuffer 1

Save this in \mame\ini and point to that in mame.ini.

Breaker:
Thanks Minwah!

I tried the 368X240 & 640X288 resolutions again; 368X240 was OK but rather large (not alot of info. on screen), 640X280 did flicker...hummm. Not a real issue mind you because I like the 640X480 very much.

The solution for the triple buffering was embarssingly easy....thanks again.


If I might indulge your patience once more...I have a question regarding lists. I've done a great deal of reading here about creating custom lists, and I'd like to create a 'Favourites' list of my own. I noticed in the '\files' folder that there is a file named 'mame.fav' which, when I opened it up in notepad,  appears to have many of the games I'd like to have in my favourites list already in it. My problem is that I'm not sure of a few things:

1) is the catver.ini file necesary to create custom lists?
2) how do I go about creating a custom list?
3) I noticed that in every case of the above you need to 'refresh' the main list...how does one go about doing this?

I hope there isn't an FAQ I've missed on the topic...

Thanks!
 

Minwah:

--- Quote from: breaker on November 01, 2004, 12:57:43 am ---I tried the 368X240 & 640X288 resolutions again; 368X240 was OK but rather large (not alot of info. on screen)

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Um, it is low-res!


--- Quote ---1) is the catver.ini file necesary to create custom lists?

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No.


--- Quote ---2) how do I go about creating a custom list?

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Read \mamewah\docs\readme1st.txt ....and you'll want to select the list and hit Games List Options > Generate Filtered List...  OR setting the list_type in \mamewah\ini\emuname-x.ini to most_played or longest_played will automatically create a 'favorites' list.


--- Quote ---3) I noticed that in every case of the above you need to 'refresh' the main list...how does one go about doing this?

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You only need to do this once, unless you update MAME versions or catver.ini versions.  To do it hit Games List Options > Generate List.

Breaker:
Thanks Minwah...much appreciated!

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