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mamewah - screen resolution changing
« on: May 26, 2005, 07:19:45 am »
running neomame & mame on mamewah frontend. Connected my PC to arcade monitor with auto 15/30kHz swithing thru PC VGA cable. Displays games perfect if they have a screen resolution of 304x224, but squashes/streches picture with any other resolution. Guy selling monitors, suggests to set screen resolution for all games to 304x224, within mamwah, but i cannot find this. Can anyone pls help....

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2005, 08:27:29 am »
Mamewah doesn't set the resolution, Mame does. You can set custom resolutions for each game in an ini file.

Try using the Mame Resolution Tool:

http://mamewah.mameworld.net/downloads.htm

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2005, 09:13:29 am »
You could force the resolution "into" MAME 1 of two ways:

1) PREFERRED: Edit your mame.ini in your MAME folder. Change the "resolution" from "auto" to "304x224"
2) Edit your <emuname>.ini file in MAMEWAH\ini and add the "-resolution 304x224" flag to the commandline_format parameter

Alternately, you could use the MAME Resolution Tool to help specify compatible resolutions for each particular game.

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2005, 09:07:29 am »
You could force the resolution "into" MAME 1 of two ways:

1) PREFERRED: Edit your mame.ini in your MAME folder. Change the "resolution" from "auto" to "304x224"
2) Edit your <emuname>.ini file in MAMEWAH\ini and add the "-resolution 304x224" flag to the commandline_format parameter

Alternately, you could use the MAME Resolution Tool to help specify compatible resolutions for each particular game.

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cant seem to find 'resolution auto' in ini file, pls advise whr this is located. Also tried to alter commandline format, but messed up loading roms, pls advise also whr to locate this heading. thanks

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2005, 09:14:20 am »
In MAME .96, it's in the "### Windows video options ###" section, line 35.

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2005, 08:38:25 am »
In MAME .96, it's in the "### Windows video options ###" section, line 35.

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got it. thanks for yr help sab.

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2005, 09:13:07 am »
Make sure you do not have conflicting configurations in MAME.INI such as

keep aspect ratio and scale full screen both checked.

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2005, 09:35:32 am »
Make sure you do not have conflicting configurations in MAME.INI such as

keep aspect ratio and scale full screen both checked.

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keep aspcet ratio is set to 1, but i cant see ' scale full screen' whr is that setting?? and wht should it be on??

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2005, 10:00:22 am »
Make sure you do not have conflicting configurations in MAME.INI such as

keep aspect ratio and scale full screen both checked.

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keep aspcet ratio is set to 1, but i cant see ' scale full screen' whr is that setting?? and wht should it be on??

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Sorry was thinking of MAME32 setting... ummm I'll have to fire up a cab in a bit and take a look. But dont expect to get full screen and keep aspect ratio without it looking squished in all but the native resolution for the game.


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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2005, 10:39:34 am »
Make sure you do not have conflicting configurations in MAME.INI such as

keep aspect ratio and scale full screen both checked.

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keep aspcet ratio is set to 1, but i cant see ' scale full screen' whr is that setting?? and wht should it be on??

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Sorry was thinking of MAME32 setting... ummm I'll have to fire up a cab in a bit and take a look. But dont expect to get full screen and keep aspect ratio without it looking squished in all but the native resolution for the game.

you are correct, i am using mameplus32 and neomame32. What you are saying is that whn i try a game that is not 304x224 on an arcade monitor it will look bad?? thought that whn i set the above resolution, all games would then be displayed like that...

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Re: mamewah - screen resolution changing
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2005, 11:23:37 am »
What I am saying is if you have both stretch to full screen or scale to full screen (cant remember the wording) and the enforce aspect ratio that yeah unless you are at the correct resolution games might look smushed or not fill the screen with game play.