Posted by Lindz- on 22, 2000 at 1:00 AM:
In Reply to: Vertical games on Horizontal arcade monitor posted by Krusty on 21, 2000 at 3:01 AM:
: I am doing some testing for my MAME cabinet project, and I have my video connected to an ATI Xpert 98 PCI card. When running horizontal games on my horizontal monitor, everything looks fine. However, when trying to run vertical games on the horizontal monitor, the top and bottom are getting cut off. I can run them rotated and they look great, except that I don't have a rotatable monitor. I have played with the resolutions, but none seem to let me see the whole screen, always cutting off the top and bottom, except for 640x480, which is WAY too small on the screen. For example, Pac-Man doesn't let me see the scores at the top or the number of men and fruit at the bottom. It is not a monitor vertical adjustment - it is being cut off by the emulator itself. The funny thing is, Mr. Do (and Mr Do's castle) display the entire screen, although they too are vertical games. This is throwing me off, since I would figure it would be an 'all or none' thing. The games I have tested so far that have cut off parts of the screen are: Pac-Man, Frogger, Donkey Kong, 1942, and Galaga. Mr Do is the only one that I have found that will let me see the whole thing, and I'm running that one at 320x240, like all the others.
: Does anyone know of a 'trick' to get this to display properly? I've seen where people say they've got vertical games to run on horizontal monitors just fine, so I don't know what they're doing...
: Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.