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Mamewah not running games at full resolution??? suggestions?
Minwah:
--- Quote from: jacenwon on December 12, 2007, 12:37:50 pm ---i'm not quite sure i understand why individual ini's must be made for each game, if when ran by mame.exe straight up, the games run fine... but i'm not mame guru.
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Partly for this reason:
--- Quote from: Minwah ---Edit: Also note: If you're wondering why when you run MAME on its own it looks better than via Mamewah, it is probably because the outcome of 'resolution auto' differs depending on what resolution you are running when MAME is executed.
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But also you cannot rely 100% on MAME (resolution auto) picking the best resolution, even if is seems to be working well for some games. There will almost certainly be some games which don't run at the best resolution.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: jacenwon on December 13, 2007, 12:40:23 am ---now that i'm going through the instructions, i noticed that the settings option is grayed out? and when i try and generate a native list, nothing shows up. am i missing something by chance?
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If the 'generate native list' option is greyed out then it usually means the mame.exe hasn't been pointed to...
--- Quote ---i tried double clicking in the native list area, and the settings box opens, only to crash due to a runtime error 91?
xml2info didn't for out for me either... i ran the following: c:\mame\mame -listxml | xml2info > listinfo.txt, and nothing was generated :(
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Hmm, maybe it is an xml2info problem. I will have to update this program so it has built-in listxml parsing...it shouldn't be too difficult as Mamewah already does it, I'll just need to be a bit careful not to break the 'old' methods, and also there are quite a few xml format variations. Will keep you posted...
Edit: in the meantime, you could try this alternative program: http://www.ultimarc.com/avres.zip
northerngames:
I use avres with desktop and mamewah running 640x480 all the other auto res tools I could not geting working as easily and well as the avres tool.
jacenwon:
thanks for all the assistance, fellas :)
--- Quote ---Edit: in the meantime, you could try this alternative program: http://www.ultimarc.com/avres.zip
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i actually found that restool shortly after posting my last msg. the tool works well :) however, i noticed that when it automatically generates ini's for the games, it's pretty much designating the same resolution for all games... galaga, for example, is given a 3xx by 2xx resolution within it's ini., while sunset riders is given the same. this struct me as being odd, cause galaga is a vertical game, and sunset riders is a full horizontal game. why would they be designated the same res if they're completely different sizes???
just for shits & giggles, i tried to designate 640x480 to both ini's (galaga and sunset riders), and they ran in what seemed to be the BEST looking res. nice & full, no jagged graphics... just clean visuals :) odd? can one of you guys make sense of this for me?
as always, much appreciated!!!!
jace
jacenwon:
i had forgotten to reply to this:
--- Quote ---If the 'generate native list' option is greyed out then it usually means the mame.exe hasn't been pointed to...
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i made sure that all files/directories were pointed to :( mine is very simple - c:\mame\mame.exe
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