Vertical games downsizes on horizontal arcade-monitor

[SONIC]

'lo guys

I have a cab with a 25" arcade-monitor in it, a pc running Windows98 and Mame32 on it.
Everything runs very nice so far, I have one problem though..! When I want to play a game of say BombJack or some other game that original was designed for a vertical screen, Mame32 decides to scale the whole picture way too far down... I mean, the is a black border in the top and bottom of the screen which is about 5-10 cm high, and then there is a black border in both left and right side which are about 10-15 cm wide...

This also happenes in games like R-Type 1+2, Ghouls'n'ghosts etc...

Is there anything you can do to make that stop somehow? I have set Mame32 to "fullscreen" the games, but in some games it just wont

I have also read about the .cfg file that could be edited (where the monitor=arcade thing has to be typed), but that's only for dosmame, or? Can't seem to find any cfg files in mame32's folders

Any suggestions what to do to get it fullscreened in every single game???

Thanks for all replies in advance

[generousben]

try using mame 32 plus.

[generousben]

what setting u using?

[SONIC]

Uhm, lemme see if I can remember it (machine is off, and standing in an other room)...

Rez is 640x480 16 bit colors, at 15,7 Khz I think!!!

Anyhow... the Mame32 Plus I found is a cab-file... what am I supposed to do with such file?!

[generousben]

gp here....
http://www.emusilent.net/mame/

download this.....
www.emusilent.net/mame/download/mame32plus_062.4_bin.cab



and run it. instead of normal mame 32 see if it makes a difference.




if you open powerstrip ,
display profiles,advance timing options,custom res,

so that ur 640x480 res u are using apears in powerstrip.

can u cut the PowerStrip timing parameters u are using out off powerstip(use the copy timings to clipboard button)

it should look a bit like this
.
640x480=640,16,64,80,480,1,3,14,24302,7

Generic timing details for 640x480:
HFP=16 HSW=64 HBP=80 kHz=30 VFP=1 VSW=3 VBP=14 Hz=61

[generousben]

use WinRar to open it?


mame32 plus has a beter hardware stretch when i just use mame 32 on an arcade monitor i cant play some of the vertical games...........if i use mame 32plus it plays all games full screen at the correct aspect ratio when h/s is enabled

[SONIC]

Thanks for the tip, will try that... will report in when I know if it works

[Mani]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Advancemame, which is usually the defacto answer to your question.

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net

Good luck!
-Mani

[generousben]

er yer,

but we are to lazy to use advance mame........and this is about displaying the windows desktop aswell.

[SONIC]

Ahrg, can't get it to run it says it needs some file
Am also finding more and more games that's not filling out the screen, which makes 'em rather unplayable

Is there any god out there? If so, let him show me some mercy!!!

[generousben]

what?.........so now u started praying?
use what i use all games fullscreen,at correct aspect  ratio
only downside that games use h/w stretch.