Arcade Monitor Arcade VGA and Hyperspin FE

[Cameronj]

Hi guys,

I finally got my PC going with my arcadevga and PC2Jamma card. It is a Netec 2515C.

I was going through some of the resolution modes and some such as 640x480 look like total crap.

I was wanting to use the hyperspin FE with this cabinet, but I am not sure what setting to use for the fe.

What FEs do you guys use with your standard Rez arcade monitors? What resolution do you run it at?

Have any of you guys had a successful Hyperspin setup?

I would appreciate any input!

Thanks!!!

[ahofle]

Can you be more specific than 'total crap'?  Front ends should look fine at 640x480 interlaced.

[Cameronj]

Well the resolution for the FE would be fine, but when I set the quick rez utility to 640x480,  with the Arcade VGA, it looks really bad.

It looks shakey and blurry. Any lesser resolution 640x240 looks awesome.

 I didn't see where you can set it to interlaced or not. Only the bit depth 16 or 32 bit color were options.

I obviously don't know what I am doing with the ArcadeVGA card because the quick rez utility is the only thing that I can get to change stuff around. Maybe I am missing something?

[ahofle]

By shaky and blurry do you mean 'flicker' perhaps?  This is normal while on the windows desktop, but is usually minimal in games or front ends.  Have you tried launching a front end at that resolution to see if it's better?

[Cameronj]

No it is beyond flicker. It looks blurry, fuzzy and flickery. It is like the monitor totally can't handle the image or something.

[Ummon]

I don't know if the arcadeVGA (and which model do you have?) does 640x480 interlaced.

[Cameronj]

I have the version 2.0 and it is the AGP version.

Maybe it doesn't do the interlaced. I'm not sure. I haven't found much documentation other than the install docs. Therefore I am not sure about what you can and can't do with the card exactly.

[ahofle]

Yes, the 640x480 that the AVGA provides is interlaced (unless you installed the multi-sync patch that is).
Maybe you could take a picture of the screen so we can see what you mean?

[Cameronj]

Yeah I will take a picture. It won't show the jitteryness of it.
Who knows maybe it will look OK with the FE running. I am going to try that out in a few minutes.

[Ummon]

Yes, the 640x480 that the AVGA provides is interlaced (unless you installed the multi-sync patch that is).

Right, that's what I was thinking but it's been a while and wasn't sure.

Cam, I suggest looking through the Video part of the wiki a bit, particularly looking at pictures linked and such to get an idea of how things will/are supposed to look in various circumstances. Then make sure of the specs of your monitor.

Sidenote: curious how in some situations the arcadeVGA isn't as simple as supposed. However, it might be best to start over. PM me if you need more help.

[Cameronj]

Thanks!

Right now I am running the setup at 640x240. It actually looks quite good. I might just stick with this instead of banging my head against the wall. I think that my monitor just doesn't have the ability to pull off the higher resolution and still look good. I am hoping to do some test runs with MAME tonight.

So far I have been mostly futzing around with Hyperspin. It isn't that difficult to figure out how to manipulate the FE, but the documentation is pretty slim so far. I have been able to figure out enough.

[Tulsaboyw]

Hyperspin is very very cool product, once u get it working.

It took me a couple of weeks even with help from 2 major users on the hyperspin forum site.
In the end, everythings fine, except that I still cant get hiscores to work.
And thats the hiscores within each game and not the hitotext stuff.

To me true emulation does include some variant of hi score retention and without it hyperspin as good as it is, is worthless..  especially for me when I would be willing then to pay $100 donation to the product or buy full setup outright.   

As it is, till I get the hiscores working (not hitotext) I wont be using HS at all.
As i its Im now using a alternative and have no problems at all  and it only took me 2-3 hours to setup the alternative.

Still if you like the hi-to-text way, its a workable deal, I have it setup but do not want it that way because it does out times lock up HS.