buttermancan Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 Hello all, Thanks for the amazing community. I love Launchbox and have used it to get into Arcade games as well as literally everything else. Unfortunately when I load up MAME 1.92 through Launchbox the scanlines and effects applied to the individual games are missing. The bezel art shows up but the aforementioned scanlines and effects are missing. When I load the games directly through MAME everything works perfectly. If you guys could point me in the right direction in solving this it'd be really appreciated! Kind regards, Chris Quote
neil9000 Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 22 minutes ago, buttermancan said: Hello all, Thanks for the amazing community. I love Launchbox and have used it to get into Arcade games as well as literally everything else. Unfortunately when I load up MAME 1.92 through Launchbox the scanlines and effects applied to the individual games are missing. The bezel art shows up but the aforementioned scanlines and effects are missing. When I load the games directly through MAME everything works perfectly. If you guys could point me in the right direction in solving this it'd be really appreciated! Kind regards, Chris Hi and welcome to the Launchbox community. Well that's a strange one as Launchbox has nothing to do with the MAME .ini files so it should be no different at all, Launchbox doesn't really know or care about your MAME settings it just passes the game rom to the emulator. Quote
buttermancan Posted April 19, 2018 Author Posted April 19, 2018 Thank you for your reply neil9000 I'm quite confused and not sure where the problem lies. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the issue is and ways in which to solve it? Like I mentioned, when loading the roms directly via mame 1.92 I have scanlines and effects applied along with the relevant arcade cabinet artwork. However when i load the roms through launchbox the scanlines and effects are missing yet i still have the relevant arcade cabinet artwork. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Kind regards, Chris Quote
Lordmonkus Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 Is your mame.ini file in your Mame folder where the exe is located or is it in a sub folder ? Are you using a shader for your scanlines or an overlay ? My mame.ini file is in the main Mame folder with the exe and I use HLSL shaders perfectly fine, BGFX shaders work just fine as well. I haven't used an overlay scanline in a very long time so I have no idea if that might be the problem or not. Quote
buttermancan Posted April 19, 2018 Author Posted April 19, 2018 Thank you Lordmonkus. The mame.ini file was in a subfolder. Kindest regards, Chris Quote
Lordmonkus Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 Glad you got it sorted though I am surprised that was the issue, usually when the ini file is in a sub folder Mame games have problems loading through LB. Quote
buttermancan Posted April 20, 2018 Author Posted April 20, 2018 Thanks again Lordmonkus for your help. All the arcade games look so much better now with scanlines etc. I went back and checked my older version of MAME 0.181a and the ini file was also in a subfolder but that loaded fine. The difference with that version was I did not have any arcade artwork or scanlines or effects etc. All the best, Chris Quote
Lordmonkus Posted April 20, 2018 Posted April 20, 2018 Yeah I need my shaders as well, I really cannot stand old pixel art without them. Quote
derekroyals@gmail.com Posted October 22 Posted October 22 On 4/18/2018 at 1:34 PM, neil9000 said: Hi and welcome to the Launchbox community. Well that's a strange one as Launchbox has nothing to do with the MAME .ini files so it should be no different at all, Launchbox doesn't really know or care about your MAME settings it just passes the game rom to the emulator. On 4/19/2018 at 12:04 AM, Lordmonkus said: Is your mame.ini file in your Mame folder where the exe is located or is it in a sub folder ? Are you using a shader for your scanlines or an overlay ? My mame.ini file is in the main Mame folder with the exe and I use HLSL shaders perfectly fine, BGFX shaders work just fine as well. I haven't used an overlay scanline in a very long time so I have no idea if that might be the problem or not. I'm Having the same issues. My mobo dumped on me. Aftering buying a new one, It changed the (Letter Address) I do not remember it. Everything works But no filter (Scanlines) Mame to me looks horrible without them. How can i get them back? It shows they are enabled, But clearly they are not.. Any help would be grateful. Thanks ~ Derek Quote
derekroyals@gmail.com Posted October 22 Posted October 22 I'm Having the same issues. My mobo dumped on me. Aftering buying a new one, It changed the (Letter Address) I do not remember it. Everything works But no filter (Scanlines) Mame to me looks horrible without them. How can i get them back? It shows they are enabled, But clearly they are not.. Any help would be grateful. Thanks ~ Derek Quote
Mr. RetroLust Posted October 22 Posted October 22 When I transferred my system from windows 10 to a new windows 11 system not too long ago I had the same problem of not seeing curvature or scanline effects so I dove into the internet, after a long search I found the solution for my case. I am running an old version of mame, namely 0.198 so by that time the effects I was using where for an older directx version, it was v9 dot something if I remember correctly. So all I had to do was download a directx runtime thing (sorry cant remember the exact name or microsoft link) so my older directx version was woud be supported again on my system as the version was not included in the newer OS. Works like a dream again 🤘 Quote
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