Mame screen res

[speedklz]

Is there some way to have mame choose the best res for a particular game and set it?

[u_rebelscum]

"Best" depends on your monitor, the original game's res, your videocard, your OS, and other mame options used (like -effects or -artwork).

Current mame defaults to the desktop resolution, probably partially due to this is the best res for fixed res screens like LCDs, and the default for artwork, and if you want any effects.

If you have a multires CRT monitor, you can change the res, but mame doesn't do as well as it used to (and even that wasn't perfect, as there were variants that were better at picking res).

Enable -switchres and set the res with -resolution (and -resolution0, up to 3, for multiscreens).  There are apps that help set every game's resolutions in there own ini files.

[speedklz]

Yea thats what I want is for each game to have its native res displayed that way GT98 filles the screen and so does gauntlet II, I am changing by hand now, but I would like to have it done automaticly.. I am using an arcade cab monitor.

[u_rebelscum]

I never used 'em, but Mame Resolution Tool might be what you want.  

Someone with more hards on info on the options?

[speedklz]

laughing in his best Beavis and Butt Head voice... He said "hard" hu hu hu hu



lol

[Ummon]

Dude. Read MAME/MAME32 help file and the monitor wiki.

[speedklz]

Thanks RebelScum, I had seen that program sometime back but had forgot about it, it seems to do what I need. I just wanted something to change the resulution to the games native res so that they fit and looked correct when I played them. Using a set res just didnt look right, some games were cropped others were chopped. So thanks YOU THA MAN!