setting up resolutions for the first time

[starcrudph]

hi. i wanna use advancemame/menu using an rgb monitor, how do i set it up the first time, coz i figure that it cant display correctly at first so how do i go and navigate in dos mode like in advcfg,advv etc. thanks.

[RayB]

use a normal PC monitor first.

[starcrudph]

ok thanks, any more tips and advice?

[RayB]

Print out the installation files. They are very lengthy and you WILL need to consult them as you're going along configuring settings. It's not very straight-forward, so follow all instructions closely.

[gmorse]

what are you using for a graphics card and are you using a jpac?  Dos or Linux?

You might also want to keep arcadeos in mind if advmenu gives problems.  I had no problem getting advmame working with games from the command line, but for whatever reason I couldn't get advmenu to work.  Kept giving me a no supported graphics mode error.  Arcadeos worked like gangbusters though.

[RayB]

what are you using for a graphics card and are you using a jpac?

[gmorse]

Yeah, I did that and I still couldn't get it to work.  Got frustrated as hell after a few hours and just switched to arcadeos, which worked the first time, so I never bothered going back and trying to figure it out.  I'm sure it's something stupid like I fat-fingered a character in the advmenu.rc.  One of these days I'll go back and get it working, but arcadeos has been pretty good for me so far.

[wpcmame]

You need to copy over the graphics mode info from your ADVMAME.rc file over to the ADVMENU.rc file.

This is how advmenu works:

If there is a modeline called "default_graph" available it will be used. All other modelines are ignored.

If "default_graph" isn't found it will use the parameters display_width and device_video_format to generate a modeline.

Best way to run advmenu is to calibrate a modeline that looks fine on the monitor and then call this "default_graph"