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Help configuring resolutions needed (Mame/Mamewah)
« on: August 11, 2006, 11:55:00 pm »
Win98SE w/GeForce3->JPAC->Wells Gardner 25" (horizontal)
MAME .106
MAMEWAH 1.61 /1.62b10

I have run the MAME resolution tool AND powerstrip following instructions exactly, and just about all of the games I've tried seem to work perfectly, and the picture quality is great. However, I cannot get all of the screen for MAMEWAH or any games to display. I always see only the top 1/2 or 2/3rds of the screen, and everything is stretched vertically too big for the screen.

Why does everything hang way off the bottom of the screen? (While I am quite the noob, yes, I did adjust the V-Size on the monitor.) 

Interestingly, when using the On-screen display in powerstrip when in a game, and it looks like all signals to my arcade monitor are running at 640x480. It doesn't matter what game I'm playing, even though I have all the .ini files created and in the right place. Shouldn't the number on the display match the resolution of the game in the .ini file, or the resolution actually internal to mame, leaving the actual display at 640x480 all the time?
Any ideas?
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Re: Help configuring resolutions needed (Mame/Mamewah)
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2006, 08:17:03 pm »
Here's my .ini from MAMEWAH 1.62 as I try to load "1942", and "1943", both which have .ini files generated, with resolutions of 200ish x 200ish (I'm not in front of my PC right now)

8/18/06 7:54:29 PM MAMEWAH v1.62 launched
8/18/06 7:54:29 PM Desktop colour: 10841658
8/18/06 7:54:29 PM Wallpaper filename:
8/18/06 7:54:29 PM Display mode: 1024x768 @ 60Hz, 16 bit colour
8/18/06 7:54:29 PM Decimal symbol: '.'
8/18/06 7:54:29 PM Games list read: mame-0.lst
8/18/06 7:54:31 PM Mode 640 x 480 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/18/06 7:54:31 PM Layout selected: C:\MAMEWAHB\config\layout.lay
8/18/06 7:54:32 PM No. joystick devices attached: 0
8/18/06 7:54:32 PM Ctrlr file selected: C:\MAMEWAHB\config\mamewah.cfg
8/18/06 7:54:33 PM Keyboard enabled
8/18/06 7:55:51 PM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
8/18/06 7:55:51 PM Commandline run: c:\mame\mamepp.exe 1942 {flags=210}
8/18/06 7:56:16 PM Application quit: c:\mame\mamepp.exe 1942
8/18/06 7:56:16 PM Mode 640 x 480 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/18/06 7:56:21 PM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
8/18/06 7:56:21 PM Commandline run: c:\mame\mamepp.exe 1943 {flags=210}
8/18/06 7:56:43 PM Application quit: c:\mame\mamepp.exe 1943
8/18/06 7:56:43 PM Mode 640 x 480 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/18/06 7:56:47 PM Mode 1024 x 768 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/18/06 7:56:47 PM MAMEWAH quit

Anyone see a problem here?