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Author Topic: MAME - Certain games and scanlines won't run... how do you make frontend detect  (Read 1768 times)

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krisbee

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I like light scanlines on my games... however, some don't like it.  Notably, Tron and Tempest both seem to not want light scanlines on.  Ok, so instead of having to load an alternate command line, how can I set that up so it won't be a problem?  Inside the roms .cfg file?  How do I do that?  I am running xmame v106 (don't let linux scare you off.. just assume it was straight mame)...

Thanks in advance,
Kris

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I've had trouble with vertical games not having scanlines, though some do. Tempest is a vector game, though.

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I know... most vector games will ignore the scanlines, but tempest just won't load if the effect is on.  Black Widow, Major Havoc, Battlezone just ignore...

I suppose I could make a complicated shell script, but if there was an easier way, I would just rather do that...

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You can change that setting in the ini file for the particular game(s), ie tempest.ini.  Look at the MAME docs for the syntax.

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and vector.ini for all vector games.   

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Ah... that is more like it!  I did finally find the one line it makes reference to.. and in xmame it is actually  romname+rc, so tempest was tempestrc... I added the switch to turn off the scanlines, and it worked perfectly.  So many changes version to version, and platform to platform, it was hard to find the info! :)

Thank you so much!
Kris