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Grasshopper:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 07, 2006, 11:57:54 pm ---I've went over this before on another thread.... manually set mame to run at the maximum resolution it'll handle and use hardware stretch... all will be well as you are only running one resolution.  This is the ONLY way to run every single game in mame on an arcade monitor without having to tweak the monitor's settings for every other game or have a thousand custom profiles, manually tweaked in powerstrip or advancemame.(And even then ps and advmame don't get em all). 

No it won't work in dos, only windows.  This is the very reason I've been preaching for everyone to ditch dos for years now. 

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I strongly disagree with this. Hardware stretch looks awful. You can achieve far better results with Advance MAME. Sure, it's a bit more work but well worth it in the end.

Minwah:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 08, 2006, 03:35:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 07, 2006, 11:57:54 pm ---I've went over this before on another thread.... manually set mame to run at the maximum resolution it'll handle and use hardware stretch... all will be well as you are only running one resolution.  This is the ONLY way to run every single game in mame on an arcade monitor without having to tweak the monitor's settings for every other game or have a thousand custom profiles, manually tweaked in powerstrip or advancemame.(And even then ps and advmame don't get em all). 

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I strongly disagree with this. Hardware stretch looks awful. You can achieve far better results with Advance MAME. Sure, it's a bit more work but well worth it in the end.

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I agree with you, Grasshopper.  Hardware stretch is handy at times but looks godawful, and really defeats the point of using an arcade monitor (with the exception of trying to fit medium/high res. games onto a standard res. monitor).

It is easy (with the help of software) to create suitable ini files for each game to get the best (unstretched where possible, and close to native res.) results.

If you're going to hwstretch every game you pretty much might as well just use a PC monitor  :P

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