Trident Blade3D review - One awsome card.!!!!! - Long Post.


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Posted by Tim C. on 19, 2000 at 12:11 PM:

I just had to post this after setting up my Blade 3D.

My setup:
25 inch standard res Wells Gardner Monitor
(Rotateable, but really no longer needed)
Arcadeos 2.42
VSYNC Mame Beta 9
Trident Blade 3D (of course)

ALL games in mame a very playable with this setup, with no line dropping or interpolation required! That's right, every game I tested worked fine, with a few setup tweaks (Explained here):

Vector Games: All looked incredible, with beam width 1.0, except asteroids and LLander. The flicker is most noticible on those, but still only one or two noticible line droppings per game. Star Wars looks magnificent since it only updates 30 frames per second anyways.

Namco games: (224x288) Always the worst, these are now near perfect, except because vsyncmame tweaks the sync rate to 54 mhz to get them to fit, I had to add a remote vsize control to readjust the screen size. You also have to force them to novsync because of the reason above. (Or else they will run too slow). I also have a small problem with a sync curl at the top 8 pixels. I am working on a sync combiner that should solve this.

Various others: Some vertical games require forcing resolution settings in arcadeos in order to make them fit on the screen, otherwise they go into interlaced 640x480 mode. (Yuck), These include spyhunter, commando etc. They fit fine forced.

All horizontal games run perfectly (so far) with no tweaking required.

Conclusion:

With a little tweaking, this has to be the best solution for arcade cabinets. The only one better is probabaly Stan's switchable 15/24 Khz setup, but if your on a budget, this one is for you.

-Tim (who will throw all this up on a website when he has time)..



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