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Si utilizas "monitor custom" en mame.ini tienes que editar las líneas "crt_range", que son parecidas a las "monitor_specs" de vmmaker.ini pero no son compatibles. Hay un hilo en el foro de BYOAC llamado "Monitor presets" donde se explican las diferencias. Te recomiendo que dejes "generic_15" o "arcade_15" en mame.ini. Y Vmmaker lo dejes tal cual con "custom".

Sirve para compilar GroovyMAME a partir del código fuente de MAME.

Vaya chapuceros los del ATI Winflash. Pues tienes varias opciones: enchufa un monitor de PC y trabaja con él durante flasheo, o pincha la tarjeta en otro PC con drivers normales, o usa el programa ATI Flash para MS-DOS, siguiendo las instrucciones del tutorial. Evidentemente, ejecutar el proceso de flasheo usando un monitor arcade plantea dificultades, como es lógico, y no es conveniente hacerlo si no sabes cómo afrontarlas (que tampoco es tan difícil).

When you look at those samples, the first reaction is "wow": the shadow mask effect is very good, it does look like a *photograph* taken from a real CRT. However, you soon start realizing that the color gradients are not what they should be, everything looks like being painted with flat color patches. It is more obvious where highlights are supposed to exist.

You can't simply achieve the required contrast with this type of screen. Even if the LCD is overall much brighter than a CRT, using any sort of filter only makes the picture darker. To compensate for the darkness introduced by the fake mask, you need to overdrive the video signal, ruining the hues. By comparison, a CRT is mostly a black surface, with little holes from where the light comes out. But the brightness of these holes is much, much higher than what you can simulate with an LCD. I'd say this is where much of the problem lies. For some reason the result is much richer to the eye on a CRT.

I've been always amazed on the realistical look of textures like metals, explosions, skin, etc. obtained from a very crude palette when seen on a proper CRT, and the very particular aesthetics that results from this. I'm afraid this is the spark of life that is lost when you see the same games on an LCD, whatever filters you use.

Aquí hay un tutorial muy bueno en español, pero ojo, es para XP y resoluciones "mágicas":

http://zonaarcade.forumcommunity.net/?t=54200253

El preset que viene por defecto ("CUSTOM") será suficiente para tu TV, con bastante probabilidad.

Lo máximo que podrás poner a 15 kHz es 800x600 a 50 Hz. Correr los juegos a 50 Hz es una caca, advertido quedas.

Sobre ATOM-15, lo peligroso es lo que he puesto en mayúsculas y color rojo. Simplemente, asegúrate de que sabes devolver una tarjeta mal flasheada a su estado original, en caso de que las cosas vayan mal.

I haven't tested any Mega-CD games, I don't have CD based games for any system currently. But I will try when I have the chance. You're totally right about Fusion, by the way.

Hi EvilDindon,

The modes you need for the Megadrive are already in the original ReslList.txt file, just copy and paste those into the "super" version for the file. Then run VMM. Fusion will use those modes without problems, make sure to use enable the "Advanced options". I've no experience with Kat5200, but it will likely work in a similar way.

I currently use GroovyUME for the Megadrive and it works really well, it will switch resolutions dynamically for the games requiring it. Even from progressive to interlaced, as Sonic II does.

Hi Gurbz,

That sounds like a problem with the drivers installation. Please confirm the following: run "dxdiag" from the command promt, go into the screen tab and check that both DirectDraw and Direct3D hardware acceleration are enabled. If either one is disabled, try reinstalling the driver until this gets fixed. Depending on the XP distribution you may need to manually remove the already shipped ATI drivers from the device manager.

You're definitely not configuring it right, either make it point to the XML source (your mame.exe) or replace the ReslList.txt contents with something of your own. Basically you need a 512-line resolution and you don't have one right now.

And... make sure to read the documentation:
http://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/v … d=327#p327

I'd rather keep GM stuff in BYOAC, for historical reasons and because troubleshooting is based on logs posting and this forum won't support attachments. However many questions regarding VMM and AOSD are also about GM so I suppose it's ok to post them either here or there. I only suggest that when posting logs you use the code tag so the threads remain readable.

Hi jadder,

When testing all this we found it worked great for some of us but it was totally messed for others. Back then most of us where still using DirectDraw. I had been testing all this with an X300 and it worked fine for me. But for people with HD 4xxx cards and the same drivers the picture was totally shifted. Finally it turned out that enabling Direct3D just worked fine for all cards.

Magic resolutions are a hack, at the time I didn't understand why they worked. Now I believe it works thanks to the unofficial virtual desktop feature in ATI drivers, you know the panning desktop where the logical resolution is higher than the physical one. In fact if I remind right you could solve the DirectDraw issue by moving your mouse so the picture would center properly, obviously not very convenient for a cabinet. Windows 7 specifically forbade panning desktop, that's probably why this doesn't work anymore.

Hola Niko30,

(Te he borrado el otro post porque estaba duplicado).

Veo que tienes un poco de lío con los conceptos. ATOM-15 sólo modifica la BIOS, no tiene nada que ver con los drivers, ni con ningún sistema operativo. Puedes instalar los drivers para Windows 7 con o sin ATOM-15, el cual sólo sirve para poder ver el arranque a 15 kHz. Puedes utilizar ATOM-15 con tarjetas que no están soportadas todavía por CRT Emudriver (HD 5xxx, HD 6xxx). Pero si la tarjeta no está soportada por CRT Emudriver, de nada te servirá usar ATOM-15, porque dentro de Windows no funcionará a 15 kHz. Con Linux sí que puedes beneficiarte de ATOM-15 y tarjetas más modernas. Tú tarjeta por suerte es una HD 4xxx que sí que está soportada por los drivers de Windows 7. La modificación de la BIOS es totalmente reversible. Los drivers ya no son "beta", pero eso no significa nada, simplemente que ya los ha probado mucha gente.

Espero haberte aclarado algo.

Hi cools,

Thanks a lot for the sharing your settings, I may add these to Appendix B of the Video Mode Maker documentation.

Well, this definitely shoudn't happen, and is due to the exiting scoring bug in GroovyMAME when using super resolutions. GroovyMAME should be smart enough to know that it can do that refresh at 480p, but because cleanstretch 2 is being used it simply goes for the higher vertical resolution in the belief that it's good for you.

Once this is fixed, you will be able to actually optimize your mode list to just two super resolutions. By the way, XP drivers have been fixed too removing their internal timings cache with this in mind, because previously it was required to fill them up with 17 video modes in order have dynamic modelines. Now this just works with any number of modelines defined.