Posted by Tim C. on 31, 2001 at 10:45 AM:
In Reply to: Getting vertical games to run horizontally on arcade monitor & ArcadeOS posted by Steve in NY on 30, 2001 at 11:28 PM:
Steve,
Here is what I WAS doing, until I built two cabinets. I do not think you will find a better solution, unless you buy a vga arcade monitor, or get a medium res monitor.
If you have a supported video card, you can use vsyncmame beta 11, (in beta 12 this is broken and 13 is not out yet. and set ystretch on, with interlace off. This gets you a pseudo 288 scrunched image with galaga, pacman etc. It is really very nice, with the only noticable image degredation at the top and bottom of the screen in the score text. The rest of the image looks almost exactly as normal. However, this is in 16 bit mode and takes a LOT of cpu horsepower to pull off. If you have a celeron 450 or better though it's great. Not perfect, but acceptable.
The other option is interlaced mode. This fits the entire picture on the screen, but runs it interlaced. You get the entire image perfectly, but the flicker is annoying, and it causes the picture to be slightly less sharp then it normally would. It is really bad with flourescent lighting.
Please note that you can do the same thing with advanced mame, but it requires far more tweaking then I have time for. ;( With vsyncmame, all I do is install and run. ;) Although if the vsyncmame version drought continues, I may have to switch.
: I have a standard/low res arcade monitor and ArcadeOS (The link above for the forum is broken) and every vertical game I have tried (using Mame 37b13) gets the top and bottom cut off. I have run all the resolutions listed and they all do it, the auto setting doesn't run the game at all. I have it set to run -H horizontal, and if I run it vertically it displays fine, but my monitor is mounted in a cabinet and doesn't rotate. I have tried the older (I have heard more stable) v2.35 and that does the same thing. Any ideas? Thanks for taking the time to read this.