ANyone have pics of vector games on an arcade monitor?

[Brax]

I'm considering going the 8liners route and get a chassis for an old 27" tv tube I have. Does anyone have any shots of vector games on an arcade monitor? I suppose I'd like to know specifically what Star Wars would look like.

What about Asteroids? Since the graphics are so tiny is there anything left after scan lines?

[paigeoliver]

You can mess with the size of the Vectors. I have a 19" svideo display hooked up to one of my cabs. Picture is similar to what you would get with an arcade monitor. The vectors look allright if you tweak the settings a bit.

[Brax]

Tweak? How so? This a Mame option??

[paigeoliver]

well in Mame32 you can adjust the vector sizes and flicker in the properties for each game. I made both Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe wider than stock. I am sure regular Mame has that somewhere as an .ini thing or command line option or something.

[Frostillicus]

Those are command line options for windows mame, too.
Actually the handiest vector tool is the vector.ini file, which mame reads instead of mame.ini if the game is a vector game.  Just copy, paste, and rename to vector.ini and change the settings.  

Though the resolution would only go so high on a monitor, but you may be able to increase the brightness to not notice the scanlines as much.

[rampy]

There's some neat stuff in advancemame that may or may not help with getting vectors to display better on TV's/arcade monitors and such...

*shrug*

rampy

[u_rebelscum]

... the vector.ini file, which mame reads instead of mame.ini if the game is a vector game.

Vector.ini is a great suggestion, but I want to point out a small technicality (that was just pointed out to me):

Your post should be "...reads in addition to..." (unless mame.ini has "readconfig 0").  

Settings in vector.ini over-ride those in mame.ini, so it seems like mame.ini is not being read if vector.ini has all the settings.  You can make vector.ini contain just the settings that you want different for vector games than raster games; this way if you want to change a common setting (in mame.ini only), you only need to change mame.ini.  *shrug*  Like I said, small.

[Frostillicus]

... the vector.ini file, which mame reads instead of mame.ini if the game is a vector game.

Vector.ini is a great suggestion, but I want to point out a small technicality (that was just pointed out to me):

Your post should be "...reads in addition to..." (unless mame.ini has "readconfig 0").  

Settings in vector.ini over-ride those in mame.ini, so it seems like mame.ini is not being read if vector.ini has all the settings.  You can make vector.ini contain just the settings that you want different for vector games than raster games; this way if you want to change a common setting (in mame.ini only), you only need to change mame.ini.  *shrug*  Like I said, small.

Oh yeah, I forgot - good call.