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Looks about right to me!

So now I tweaked it to a degree that it always produces a satisfactory image in every situation. Perfect doesn't exist it seems.

Ahhhh, wisdom!

In this context, perfection is a mirage. It perpetually seems to be be just over the next sand dune, you keep walking but you never get there.

Perfect image for every game has always been impossible, even in the original arcades. Arcade monitors are tweaked for a single game, or maybe a game system (like NeoGeo, Capcom etc.). If you put in a new board, you must tweak the monitor.

In the mean time I compiled Retroarch and AttractmodePlus. If I use the two ranges in Retroarch it works standalone but if I launch something from AttractmodePlus it crashes. If I don't use the ini it works as expected.
Somehow it freaks out on the resolution change but I still might have some things to try.

I use Attract-Mode and it all works smoothly. I use Win7 and a 720x480i desktop. The default layouts work fine, though I did tweak the "Basic" layout a little to make a better fit for TVs with overscan.

After you've finished fiddling with monitor presets and VMMaker, be sure to exit the GUI by clicking OK. VMMaker will then process the config, and in the console window you'll see a message "Exporting settings to mame.ini...". This is copying the crt_rangeX data into your mame.ini, which is what GM/switchres uses. If you don't complete this step then the application won't have the right settings!

So give that a go and see if it improves things.

It's all but a standard build but all in all very cool stuff.

It is indeed very cool 

has namco's rockin' bowl-o-rama ever been emulated i have a bad pc in mine and namco want to much money thanks

It has a placeholder in MAME as "rbowlorama", but as of v0.281 it is still non-working.
- Downloaded the CHDs and launched the game, but it showed a "no screen" display and there were no inputs.

JRudebaugh on KLOV figured out how to do a MB swap.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/how-to-rockin-bowl-o-rama-bad-motherboard-swap-without-replacing-io-card.501868/


Scott

Thanks so much for the info PL1. I appreciae it.

has namco's rockin' bowl-o-rama ever been emulated i have a bad pc in mine and namco want to much money thanks

my video card died, i found the exact one used as a replacement so no messing with drivers but it did flash atom-15 to the old card. do i really need to when i get the replacement or not with a wells gardner d9800 and if i should what should i pick for the khz settings .
thanks

These two ranges work for me:

crt_range0                15600-15800, 49.50-50.20, 3.200, 4.700, 6.000, 0.064, 0.192, 1.056, 0, 0, 192, 288, 448, 576
crt_range1                15600-15800, 59.30-60.50, 1.300, 4.700, 7.000, 0.064, 0.192, 0.898, 0, 0, 192, 248, 448, 480

Combined with some modifications in the TV's service menu they give me full screen games both PAL and NTSC. So no squished video output anywhere.
Few games require adjustments using the sliders. Some do but not many and always minor adaptations.
I still have some vertical overscan.
I can get rid of it all but then there is a blue line and some artifacts in some titles probably because the TV is at its limits somehow.

So now I tweaked it to a degree that it always produces a satisfactory image in every situation. Perfect doesn't exist it seems.

In the mean time I compiled Retroarch and AttractmodePlus. If I use the two ranges in Retroarch it works standalone but if I launch something from AttractmodePlus it crashes. If I don't use the ini it works as expected.
Somehow it freaks out on the resolution change but I still might have some things to try.

It's all but a standard build but all in all very cool stuff.

According to a Reddit post, Arcade 1Up will shut down before the end of the year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/s/b6cGX6efGw

I asked God and she’s pro choice.

Another week has passed, nothing heard.

Same here.   


Scott

Another week has passed, nothing heard.