fazmeister Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 (edited) Ok thanks, so what you are saying is that's just because of the curved CRT look and not an actual alignment issue, i.e the bend could be made to go round all the text ? Edited October 15, 2022 by fazmeister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 21 minutes ago, fazmeister said: Ok thanks, so what you are saying is that's just because of the curved CRT look and not an actual alignment issue, i.e the bend could be made to go round all the text ? When you bend it with the curved CRT effect you'll see more of the text because when the game screen is flat the bezel will cover the text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazmeister Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 I think we're at crossed purposes, I want to know if I can do anything to make the stuff on the game not be clipped, in 1942 e,g the 1 up and 2 up are slightly obscured due to the curved screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 12 minutes ago, fazmeister said: I think we're at crossed purposes, I want to know if I can do anything to make the stuff on the game not be clipped, in 1942 e,g the 1 up and 2 up are slightly obscured due to the curved screen Ah ok, you can adjust the height, width, x and y position in the .lay file included in the zip file. Just open the file with a notepad editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazmeister Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Thanks for this, I've had a good crack at working this out and I've come to the conclusion what I'm trying to do isn't possible without it affecting the curved look of the bezel at the bottom. For example on 1942 my standard screen looks like this with the 4 corners obscured due to the curved bezel (yellow) Therefore is there away to reduce the playing screen slightly so all 4 elements show fully or some other way without losing the curved look Regards Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 34 minutes ago, fazmeister said: Thanks for this, I've had a good crack at working this out and I've come to the conclusion what I'm trying to do isn't possible without it affecting the curved look of the bezel at the bottom. For example on 1942 my standard screen looks like this with the 4 corners obscured due to the curved bezel (yellow) Therefore is there away to reduce the playing screen slightly so all 4 elements show fully or some other way without losing the curved look Regards Dave I think you just have to adjust the width and height of the game screen, adjust the x and y coordinates to the new size of the game screen and thats it. I dont understand what you mean by losing the curved look as that should'nt happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazmeister Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Ok, sorry if not clear, on the pic above you can see that 1up and 2 up and the number of planes and credit 0 are slightly obscured due to the gameplay screen rounding at those edges. I wanted to see if there's a way to show these fully The snip below is from an original 1942 machine and you can see it doesn't have that issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazmeister Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 It's Ok now, I understand how the parameters affect the screen etc so what I'm effectively asking for isn't possible unless I lose the whole curved optical look. If I want everything displayed it'll be as a rectangular screen so that's the trade off, thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 hours ago, fazmeister said: It's Ok now, I understand how the parameters affect the screen etc so what I'm effectively asking for isn't possible unless I lose the whole curved optical look. If I want everything displayed it'll be as a rectangular screen so that's the trade off, thanks for the help I see what the problem is now, your screenshot of 1942 shows the gameplay screen entirely flat, at the start of our conversation I told you I use an effect in mame to curve the screen, you can also add scanlines and other effects. Im not at the pc atm but im sure a google search will help you on your way, search for "Mame apply scanlines" or something, In the downloads section of this project I also added my mame effect presets but they might not work with newer mame versions as I use version 0.198, in that case if you open the presets with a notepad editor you'll see what I used for effects and the curvature amount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazmeister Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Thanks, I think I understand what you're saying. I took this from a youtube video For example from the video above I can see Arkanoid as below showing curved text for scores etc On mine it looks as you say flat I've downloaded all the files including the presets but I'm out of my depth knowing how to fix this. I really appreciate the help, this is a serious great project you've done Regards Dave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 47 minutes ago, fazmeister said: Thanks, I think I understand what you're saying. I took this from a youtube video For example from the video above I can see Arkanoid as below showing curved text for scores etc On mine it looks as you say flat I've downloaded all the files including the presets but I'm out of my depth knowing how to fix this. I really appreciate the help, this is a serious great project you've done Regards Dave Yep thats what I ment, you can read all about the effects in mame on this page, justvtake your time to suck it all in: https://docs.mamedev.org/advanced/hlsl.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazmeister Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Ok thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazmeister Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Brlliant stuff, had to just change the mame.ini as below and it now shows curved, can't thank you enough 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 28 minutes ago, fazmeister said: Brlliant stuff, had to just change the mame.ini as below and it now shows curved, can't thank you enough Awesome! Happy gaming bro 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eonder87 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 How can I implement HSM Reflective Shader on Mame 0.251 Standalone? Or does HSM work only RetroArch? Because this magnificent work must work with Reflection. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 27 minutes ago, eonder87 said: How can I implement HSM Reflective Shader on Mame 0.251 Standalone? Or does HSM work only RetroArch? Because this magnificent work must work with Reflection. Thanks, Only for retroarch yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaGamingFan Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 (edited) Hello everyone it says 2000 bezels. Where can i find the pack to download please? Edited June 15, 2023 by DaGamingFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted June 15, 2023 Author Share Posted June 15, 2023 5 hours ago, DaGamingFan said: Hello everyone it says 2000 bezels. Where can i find the pack to download please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEEPEEELL Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 On 3/3/2022 at 7:02 PM, neil9000 said: Did you let Launchbox download and install MAME? If you did it added some commands to the command line section in manage emulators, one of those is a art zoom option, remove that command. Hi - please can you help me locate this zoom option? Been looking for ages and cant find - many thanks 🤯 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 5 hours ago, DEEPEEELL said: Hi - please can you help me locate this zoom option? Been looking for ages and cant find - many thanks 🤯 go to tools/manage/manage emulators/mame and you should see a list of commands in the command line box, delete the part that says -artwork crop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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