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Curiosity: AVGA resolution for specific games

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horseboy:

--- Quote from: RayB on March 29, 2007, 12:07:07 pm ---Someone back me up here. I'm sure my configuration has MAME choosing native resolutions. That's the whole point of an AVGA card!! Mame knows what the game's original res is supposed to be.



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Honestly, I don't have an AVGA, but I thought this was the whole reason that everybody got one.

shorthair:
I was inclinded to think so, too.  Just PnP...but, as Boz said, Andy did say such things (it was almost verbatim, and I was wondering if Boz had gotten it from there). Regarding the Mame res-decision question, I bet one would ask at Mameworld or even the devs.  I have the feeling most of them don't have arcade monitors, hence the reason there are 'effects'. Regarding question number 1, I took it he meant any particular game might or might not, vs this or that time you ran that game.

I've had my avga, but computer issues have kept me from exploring it, yet.  Hopefully tonight.

Boz:
I did a quick check with my own 108 installation and on the 5th game I tried (out of a collection of my own 50 classics), Carnival doesn't display with the best resolution. There's another, better resolution to match the native resolution of the game. It's not in my classics list, but journey doesn't either.

Now I know why I use the Mame Resolution Tool and why I set game specific INI files for resolution.

Some games will be displayed properly using nothing more than Mame to select the best resolution. Other's will not.

It may be my humble opinion or it might be fact... Anyone who just uses an AVGA out of the box without walking through and setting game specific INI resolutions is only getting part of the functionality of the AVGA you paid for.

RayB:
Alright then!  :D

Boz:

--- Quote from: RayB on March 29, 2007, 03:35:21 pm ---Alright then!  :D

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Naw, don't be like that.  :)

I guess it all depends on how *exact* one wants to be with the games and their native resolutions. Admittedly, I'm inexorably obsessed about getting them running as perfect as I remember them from my youth. It's just my thing. Other people are happy just to play them and play them fairly close to native.

But, if you were interested. Here's a couple of shots I just took before my camera battery just died (which would probably explain the severe focus problem).


Letting Mame decide chooses a 256x256 resolution for displaying the game



Giving Mame the resolution to draw the game in (401x256)

Of course 401x256 isn't the native resolution for the game, but it looks so much closer to the original than the perfectly square resolution that Mame chose. There's another one that's 256 tall that I didn't try, but you get the point.

Seriously RayB, you might just double check that the game you really like playing are in fact playing close to native resolution. I think you might be surprised how many of them are off just a bit.

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