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Title: jpac 24kHz
Post by: brendz on November 12, 2007, 06:46:14 pm

i have a dual rez 29" nanao monitor in a new astrocity cab being run with an arcadevga and jpac. its in 15Khz mode right now, just wondering if going to 24Khz will work better in this set up while running mame games?

Title: Re: jpac 24kHz
Post by: brendz on November 15, 2007, 09:26:13 am

anyone have any insite into this??

Title: Re: jpac 24kHz
Post by: ahofle on November 15, 2007, 12:43:29 pm

What games are you looking to play?  There are very few games that use medium resolutions (Paperboy comes to mind).  I'd stick with 15khz personally since probably over 90% of games used CGA resolutions.

Title: Re: jpac 24kHz
Post by: brendz on November 15, 2007, 05:41:49 pm

mostly vert shooters and bubble bobble. i was just wondering if thru the magic of mame it would become a super better resolution somehow even if the orginal game is 15khz.

Title: Re: jpac 24kHz
Post by: ahofle on November 15, 2007, 05:51:09 pm

Well, I actually do use medium resolution for a few vertical shooters (the ones with over 300 horizontal lines like DonPachi).  But if you mainly play those types of games, I would consider mounting your monitor vertically and run at 15khz for maximum authenticity.

Title: Re: jpac 24kHz
Post by: brendz on November 16, 2007, 04:31:55 pm

its vert 15kHz now, just wondering if vert 24khz will make an improvement in any way as its an option

Title: Re: jpac 24kHz
Post by: ahofle on November 16, 2007, 05:05:06 pm

You're not going to do any better than the exact resolution and orientation of the originals (15khz/vertical).  The only two vertical EGA games I can even think of are Toobin and APB.