New cab up and running .. but some important questions ..

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: Hi all, .. : I am a fair bit of a 'lurker' here, not posting too often :) .. but I do read through the important info and appreciate all your contributions to our cause .. : I have recently got my second Mame cabinet going, which is (like the first) a converted mortal kombat cabinet, with a north-south rotated monitor. This second cabinet has a lot more 'tweaking' knobs at the rear compared to the standard horizontal cabinet that I got first .. : ok here are the qns : : 1 : I currently use ArcadeOS and vanilla DOS mame, .. but have been increasingly wanting to migrate to AdvanceMame and AdvanceMenu so as to get more control over the video modes, and to be able to use the SNES LPT1 controller that I have built already :) (AOS only recognises PSX LPT1 for my needs) .. : One of the major reasons that I have stuck with AOS is the fact that I have an ATI mach64 card for each of the cabinets (brought specifically for them) so as to take advantage of the 640x480 mode .. espesh with vector games (which look great btw) .. : what I want to know is, will I be sacrificing this 640x480 mode (which I have heard is exclusive to the m64 cards) by moving to AdvanceMame ? : I wouldnt want to sacrifice the great looking NeoGeo games in this mode too :P : : 2 : Upon firing up the vertical cabinet, I found a common link between the monitors / resolutions on both cabinets. On the top and bottom of the vertical monitor (and on the sides of the horizontal monitor) the resolution 'squishes' in some games, most noticable in Capcom games (Varth) and even galaga. : I will attempt to describe it .. the ships approaching you look like they are "rolling over the edge of a circular surface" as they approach you from the top or bottom ..only about 1/8th of the top and bottom of the monitor is affected. : Fonts are also affected the same .. eg in galaga the score font is massively squished compared to the 'game over' font .. and I think they should be the same.. : I have absolutely heaps of adjustment -outwards- .. but I am at the maximum -inwards- .. that is I cannot create black borders on the top and bottom to hopefully reduce this effect .. : some of the lower aspect games are perfectly fine .. terra cresta for example .. and they also leave me with a fair bit of adjustment too.. : I was wondering, .. should I use a different resolution ? .. as my monitors seems to be maxed out on some games .. and I would love to have them at a point where I can have more control over them .. : .. are the games running at the original res ? .. (I would assume so) .. if so, .. why arent my cabs able to cope with resolutions like the capcom ones, and have the monitor at max adjustment? : If i did change the res in something like advanceMame, would that indroduce 'tearing' and shearing of the playfield / sprites ? .. as the games will not be running in their original modes .... : *sigh* : :) : thanks in advance to those that reply :)) : just things on my mind .. .. .. : -Acur8

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