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[iamjimmi]

Rich - in your tutorial video you note that at one stage GroovyMame was running Mame in interlaced mode - and that you could tell because the text in the game config menu (TAB from Mame) text was sharp instead of blurred.

I think that I'm getting the same issue.. but first question... why is running in interlaced mode a bad thing? If the picture is sharper is that not a good thing?

Second question... how do you stop the games running interlaced?

Thanks in advance....

 

[Retroman839]

i have had this problem

and i never got to the bottom of it....

you know you have to
change the mode lines.. ini file mame
switch res
super resolutions
native resolutions

and still messing around now
demul... does it if it is sitting on the desk top...
but if placed on c drive in program files i get nice smoothed out picture looks like 360
instead of dos...

 

[Retroman839]

pissing me off because i don’t have a crt
where i am in lock down..
and i’m playing with an i3
an i5 set ups in mame
stuck with a 30” lcd

 

[chunksin]

Rich - in your tutorial video you note that at one stage GroovyMame was running Mame in interlaced mode - and that you could tell because the text in the game config menu (TAB from Mame) text was sharp instead of blurred.

I think that I'm getting the same issue.. but first question... why is running in interlaced mode a bad thing? If the picture is sharper is that not a good thing?

Second question... how do you stop the games running interlaced?

Thanks in advance....

Running in interlaced mode won't give you a proper resolution, it'll be 640x480i so chances are the ratio will be wrong. You want it running in 240p for a solid clean picture with correct ratio and refresh rate. From my experience it normally means you have generated the modelines before you made the switch to 15Khz, or you've backed out from 15Khz to 31Khz then back into 15Khz without regenerating them. It's a simple fix, whilst in 15Khz start the vmmaker.exe application from the D: drive, generate and apply the modelines using the buttons on the top left.

 

[iamjimmi]

That worked perfectly!

I now have blurry Mame configuration text but the game picture is super sharp!

(I was testing with Bomb Jack. It's quite subtle but the most notable on the second screen with the Greek temple in the background. Previously the columns in the temple were a little bit blurry but now they are sharp and really well defined).

Thanks Rich - really appreciate your help.

iamjimmi2020-04-08 22:39:38

 

[Retroman839]

hi rich I want to run your new image , in embeded mode

do I need to set up windows 7 embeded first then

run your new image after embeded mode is all set up?

thanks dan

 

[cools]

Any newer image than the April 2019 version?

 

[chunksin]

I have a PC waiting for a build so I'll update it all soon, apologies for the delay!

Any feature requests? I'll be adding a randomiser mode to stop endless menu hunting, it'll load up a random game then if you haven't hit any controls for 15 minutes will load another one at random

 

[cools]

More curiosity than feature requests. I have a machine I've been meaning to rebuild for a long while and I've finally got some time to do it, and I'd like to go with W7 Embedded simply for EWF. It doesn't need networking, doesn't need Explorer, doesn't need a whole swathe of services running - literally once it's all set up the only way of making changes I want to have to pull the disk out. I'm even tempted to disable shift keys completely and hook up a reset button so changing games requires a reset of the whole PC.

 

[ZedEx48K]

if you haven't hit any controls for 15 minutes will load another one at random

I would go for a short 3/5 mins, makes for a nicer screensaver/background noise like an arcade

 

[Retroman839]

I ruffused an image on to my usb stick and my computer wont run it!

i get an error " due to recent hard ware chage error!!!!!

cmos error time and date wont save even though I put brand new Duracell bios battery..

but if we ae getting an upgrade soon may just get another pc to put it on

this set up is ( quad core 2.9 MHz 4 gig ram win7 64 gpu r7 360}

set just for games pre 1990 no 3d stuff no renderd stuff just 80s games

 

[uberpixel]

I managed to get some nice Dell Optiplex 7020 machines from work as they were getting rid of all the fat clients.

SFF

i7 4790

16GB DDR3 RAM

256GB SSD

Gonna setup two - a hori and vert setup.

 

[Retroman839]

WHEN WE CREAT BOOTABLE DISK WITH RUFUS DO WE CHOOSE NTFS OR FAT32 ?

IM GETING A WINDOWS ERROR "PLEASE REMOVE EFI MEDIA AND REBOOT"

ANY HELP HERE APRETIATED BEEN TRYING TO BOOT THIS FOR WHILE

NOT SURE IF MY BIOS BATTERY IS DEAD AS TIME AND DATES ARE CORRECT IN CMOS

 

[lomoverde]

WHEN WE CREAT BOOTABLE DISK WITH RUFUS DO WE CHOOSE NTFS OR FAT32 ?

IM GETING A WINDOWS ERROR "PLEASE REMOVE EFI MEDIA AND REBOOT"

ANY HELP HERE APRETIATED BEEN TRYING TO BOOT THIS FOR WHILE

NOT SURE IF MY BIOS BATTERY IS DEAD AS TIME AND DATES ARE CORRECT IN CMOS

In RUFUS re you setting MBR partition scheme ?

Target system will change from UEFI to BIOS

 

[Retroman839]

I have downloaded the image twice
Rufus two versions
And keeps failing at 96 percent...

Saying failed to extract iso...

I will keep trying...

I think my pc I’m using is the culprit...
As it won’t run anything won’t run my
Win7 anyway
Didn’t run another usb stick it just hangs
After loading files?

Just did a successful usb bootable with yumi

Same thing loads files then hangs...

If I use the rufus failed at 96 I get the win 10 logo
Then and error message
Your computer ran into difficulties..with a sad smiley ...
I think my hard drive could be the culprit..

 

[ZedEx48K]

Just burn the bloody iso to a disc!

 

[cools]

People actually burn software onto discs larger than a DVD?

 

[Retroman839]

will when i get blank disks
but until then got some different
drives to try

i have a win7 disk that i have tried also but hangs as well

 

[ShinraArcade]

Sorry haven't read the whole thread but have you checked your bios settings?

Have you tried disabling secure boot? If you let me know which model MB your using I can have a look at the settings for you.

 

[Retro77]

Thanks so much for this, Chunksin

This is exactly what I am after.

I have a couple of questions. I would like to upgrade MAME. My set is currently on 0.220. I can't see the Upgrade MAME option mentioned above?

Also, I am using a card that was already previously signed 'Calamity'. So is there a way of skipping this step of the setup Unfortunately it is a 4000 series so the setup opens the PDF but doesn't move on even after manually installing the driver (and modelines).

Cheers