Mame ini. HLSL how can I adjust in with LB/ importer?

[ChickenGeorge]

Howdy 🤠.  Tried to search prior. But  I’m new to this LB front end but would like to know if there’s a way to change my mame ini file?  Currently on :

1. LB 12.7 

2. imported mame .239 & CHDs 

3. found a few mame ini’s that take advantage of a 1080p offers scan lines/ HLSL and curvature like replicating a CRT. 
 

4. I’m running LB/BB on a 1TB Ssd strictly for front end / emulators / marquee files 

5. all Games are running on a external WB 14TB black. 
 

I found some reputable YouTubers mame man/ arcade Adam that have some files . But I can’t get it to work with my current rom/ game path.  

Edited February 15, 2022 by ChickenGeorge

[C-Beats]

If you installed MAME using LaunchBox Fullset importer then the MAME folder is \\LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME (version number)\. Look in there for your mame.ini file

[ChickenGeorge]

Right. Sorry guess I should’ve mentioned that. I tried to rename the OG file. Then copy their 1080p curved modified file with no success. When I open the ini. My OG rom path . Their files is a d drive/mame/ Roms . 
 

but I’m trying to pull off a 2 drive set up for response time SSD frontend/ emulators/ external for games. Thanks for the reply and Input

[C-Beats]

If you are using the command lines we provide with the full set importer you don't need to set rom path in the INI we pass it to MAME for you. You DO need to assign the CHD path for those games though. If you're looking to manually add the path to the ini the multi path syntax is as follows "{path1};{path2}" (including quotes)

[ChickenGeorge]

4 hours ago, C-Beats said:

If you are using the command lines we provide with the full set importer you don't need to set rom path in the INI we pass it to MAME for you. You DO need to assign the CHD path for those games though. If you're looking to manually add the path to the ini the multi path syntax is as follows "{path1};{path2}" (including quotes)

Not sure I'm completely following. I've attached the Original that's created with the importer. and then a modified mimicked ini from the one I'm trying to achieve. I put my Roms and CHDS all in one mane folder on an external Drive J:

This mame INI. is it the one that primarily in the mame folder root. or under presets ini. 

ini files I found under preset:     D:\LaunchBox\Emulators\MAME 0.239 (1)\ini\presets

 

that's the main root folder there's an ini listed there.   But there's also some under presets folder.

mameMOD.ini mameOG.ini

Theone im trying to mimic.ini

Edited February 17, 2022 by ChickenGeorge

[C-Beats]

We don't configure an INI in the install process. so It's entirely possible it wouldn't be in the folder at all. I believe once you launch a game with the command lines we've added MAME will generate an INI file though. The only INI files you really should be messing with are the ones in the MAME root folder. At this point I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to change in the ini to even begin to look at the differences to tell you if they were right or wrong. Are you trying to change some shader setting or do something more elaborate?

[ChickenGeorge]

trying to make the screen curve and smooth out the pixel shaders. Mame-man & arcade Adam have somehow changed some settings to where it curves the screens added scan lines and shaders and replicates the old crts .. mame out the box the graphics are meh I found this and have been trying to alter before installing the latest bezel project. 
thanks for the replies. 

 

5 hours ago, C-Beats said:

We don't configure an INI in the install process. so It's entirely possible it wouldn't be in the folder at all. I believe once you launch a game with the command lines we've added MAME will generate an INI file though. The only INI files you really should be messing with are the ones in the MAME root folder. At this point I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to change in the ini to even begin to look at the differences to tell you if they were right or wrong. Are you trying to change some shader setting or do something more elaborate?

 

[ChickenGeorge]

5 hours ago, C-Beats said:

We don't configure an INI in the install process. so It's entirely possible it wouldn't be in the folder at all. I believe once you launch a game with the command lines we've added MAME will generate an INI file though. The only INI files you really should be messing with are the ones in the MAME root folder. At this point I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to change in the ini to even begin to look at the differences to tell you if they were right or wrong. Are you trying to change some shader setting or do something more elaborate?

here’s other explanation abs ini file. Just trying to get the maximum retro performance. Their mame adjustments make me want to play every game in the romset. Any input or assistance would be greatly appreciated . 

[neil9000]

11 hours ago, ChickenGeorge said:

here’s other explanation abs ini file. Just trying to get the maximum retro performance. Their mame adjustments make me want to play every game in the romset. Any input or assistance would be greatly appreciated . 

Pretty sure that shader settings (which is what you are trying to set and may of made things easier to understand for other users if you had used that term in this thread title) don't get set in the main mame.ini but in a separate file, like the one provided by one of our moderators in this download,

This download contains two files, one for normal games, and one for vector games, both files are placed in the mame/inis/presets folder,

So i feel you may be confusing two separate files here, which is confusing other people trying to help you.

[ChickenGeorge]

2 hours ago, neil9000 said:

Pretty sure that shader settings (which is what you are trying to set and may of made things easier to understand for other users if you had used that term in this thread title) don't get set in the main mame.ini but in a separate file, like the one provided by one of our moderators in this download,

This download contains two files, one for normal games, and one for vector games, both files are placed in the mame/inis/presets folder,

So i feel you may be confusing two separate files here, which is confusing other people trying to help you.

So basically this link it somebody else settings.  Either way the modified ini are going in this path? 
Mame\ini\presets folder.?