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how to get better quality?
Funnel:
Ok so im making my own mame cab and i've been hard at work testing some games on my pc and i've noticed some of the games have a very crappy quality, take Yiear kung fu and Rygar for example. They look like a pixelated nightmare but the games are awesome! So is there anyway I can get a better picture quality? Any help is appreciated
RayB:
They are what they are. You know, kinda like how Pong is just white bars and a square for a ball cuz that's all the technology was capable of.
GaryMcT:
Either:
1) ArcadeVGA card + arcade monitor
or
2) soft15khz + supported card (dig up the German forum thread that has a list of all the known good cards) along with an arcade monitor that also supports default Windows resolution (Wells Gardner D9500 for instance.)
Either will get the games looking like they used to. ArcadeVGA is probably the easiest route, although you still won't get the right refresh rates in Windows in general and may either have to deal with tearing or a retimed game or audio. If the tearing bugs you, give cabmame a try along with all the above.
With vsync or triple buffering (to remove tearing artifacts), Mame as it is doesn't deal very well with games that expect a higher refresh rate than what your monitor is running at. This is fixable, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
GaryMcT:
I've also started on a better CRT emulation for modern monitors, but it'll probably be a while before I get back to it. Basically, a lowres game using the typical bilinear filter to upscale or point-sampling looks terrible (in my opinion) compared to the original game on the CRT monitor. This is why Robotron on a TV on xbox live looks terrible compared to what you remember it looking like, for instance.
MaximRecoil:
If you want them to look good, get a standard resolution CRT-based arcade monitor. That is what they were meant to be displayed on. Keep in mind that arcade monitors are not "plug and play" with a PC, but there are solutions available such as the Ultimarc ArcadeVGA video card and Soft-15KHz software (you may need to do some research).
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