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Title: Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: MrPoPo on July 09, 2003, 02:31:57 pm

Hi !!

First of all sorry, but my english is very poor.

I use Daphne Emulator in Mamewah frontend running in a cabinet with ArcadeVGA.
The resolution I have is 640x480 in windows and 640x288 in Mamewah.
I have a .bat file for play the games.When I run it under Win98 it runs perfectly, but when I run it on Mamewah, only shows a half of the screen.I think is a problem of switching resolutions.
Someone have the solution?

Tank you.

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: AlanS17 on July 09, 2003, 02:37:03 pm

What type of monitor are you using? Standard resolution?

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: MrPoPo on July 09, 2003, 07:41:49 pm

I'm using an arcade monitor.

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: BuZz880 on July 09, 2003, 07:54:54 pm

Make sure you add the string -nohwaccel to your command line in your BAT file.  If that doesn't do it email me, I have had Daphne working for some time in mamewah using Win98, Win2K and WinXP.

pkrobin@hotmail.com

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: MrPoPo on July 10, 2003, 12:31:16 pm

Thanks but isn't the problem.
When I execute Daphne out of mamewah, it runs qell and I can see all the video,but when I use it in mamewah, the upper half shows the mpeg video, and the other half shows the frontend.
I think isn't problem of daphne.Is problem of mamewah changing to other resolutions.

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: Minwah on July 10, 2003, 01:10:58 pm

MAMEWAH only changes resolutions on 3 occasions; 1) When first started, 2) after an emu has finished and 3) when MAMEWAH quits...

I think you may need to alter your batch file to force the batch file to wait until the .exe has finished, eg:

start /wait c:\daphne\daphne.exe lair vldp -framefile "lair.txt" -fullscreen

It is possible that atm MAMEWAH is switching resolution back to whatever you are using before Daphne has actually been quit.

Hope it helps, and thanks to )p( for the start /wait stuff :)

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: MrPoPo on July 10, 2003, 02:42:40 pm

Sorry, don't work.

I wish to find someone who have the same configuration and have daphne working.

-Arcade Monitor.
-ArcadeVGA.

-Win98 (Desktop Resolution 640x480 or 640x288).
-MameWah (Frontend Resolution 640x288).


Tank you.

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: BuZz880 on July 10, 2003, 08:10:34 pm

I had that setup working fine.  The only time I had the problem you mention was when the hardware accel was turned on.  

I was using Win98SE and Mamewah .95b and an ArcadeVGA.  

Go into your display settings, hit advanced and make sure hardware accel is completely off.  

If that doesn't work make sure you set the desktop to 640 x 480, MAMEWAH to 640x480 and add this to your Daphne command line:

-fullscreen -x 640 -y 480

Now you aren't changing resolutions so should eliminate that problem.

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: MrPoPo on July 12, 2003, 06:43:31 am

Yes it works, but the flickering problem in the arcade monitor at 640x480 continues.
And if I set all the resolutions to 640x288, don't flicker but can't run daphne well.

I can't have all at the same time.
Thank you for your answer.

Title: Re:Daphne in Mamewah
Post by: BuZz880 on July 12, 2003, 08:01:23 pm

OK, now you are getting somewhere.  The flickering in Daphne will not change.  There are theories on how this might be fixed but to me the solution that sounds most likely to work is to re-encode the mpegs at 321x240 or 640x288 but I do not know if anyone has tried or even if it is possible.