MAME Resolution Tool 3.20 bug? Help!

[DeLuSioNal29]

Hi everyone,

I've had my arcade for quite some time and unfortunately for me, I accidentally blew away my perfect ini file library.   

So, I am re-doing everything.  However, I ran into an unusual bug in the software.  I'm not sure if it's me doing something wrong or the software...

For some odd reason, when I use the MAME Resolution tool and I change a resolution of a game (or many games at once) the game res that set does not take.  I did some further investigation of the ini file itself and noticed the the last two lines have two different resolutions!  The one I set it to in the MAME Res tool, and the original.  When I try the game it plays in the original (undesired) resolution.

For example:

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screen0 \\.\DISPLAY1
switchres 1
hwstretch 0
bezel 0
backdrop 0
resolution 392x240
resolution0 384x288@0

My question... why is the MAME Res Tool doing this?  Shouldn't the two resolutions in the ini file match?

I've duplicated this on my friends arcade cabinet as well.  We can't make heads or tails of it.

Here is a step by step walkthrough of exactly what I am doing.

-  I click on "find" and type in sf2 (enter)
-  I double-click on the 384x224 resolution on the left column
-  In the box that pops up I select 392x240 in the dropdown and make sure "all games with this Native Video Mode and Orientation" is selected.  I click OK.
-  All the games listed in the middle column are now set to 392x240.  With the 384x224 in the left column still highlighted, I click on File, Generate ini files.  A box pops up and I make sure that "all games with this Native Video Mode and Orientation" is selected.  Everything else is unchecked.  I click OK.  It askes me are you sure, it will overwrite, etc. and I click yes.
-  I try the game and resolution is still wrong.  Sigh.

Anyone know what I am doing wrong?  Or is it the software?

Other notes:  My hardware setup.  Betson 27" monitor and AVGA2 PCIe card.

Thanks in advance.

~ DeLuSioNaL

[DeLuSioNal29]

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[Minwah]

OK I am not sure why you have/need so much stuff in your game ini's:

screen0 \\.\DISPLAY1
switchres 1
hwstretch 0
bezel 0
backdrop 0
resolution 392x240
resolution0 384x288@0

You should set basically all of those settings, except 'resolution' in your \mame\mame.ini. That way you only need to set resolution (and in some case hwstretch 1) in your game ini's. For 'resolution' and 'resolution0', I would just set these to 'auto' in mame.ini - they should be over-ridden by the game ini's anyway.

I would delete your ini's and start again, bearing in mind what I said above.