MAME Vector Games looking their best

[vaderag]

I'm trying to get my MAME Vector games looking as best they can... can anyone help?

I've seen some vids etc where they have backgrounds emulating how they'd have looked in the actual cab, and better HLSL settings than I have, but struggling to find a solid source of how to do this...

Anyone direct me?!

Thank you

[vaderag]

So I think I'm getting somewhere here after a bit of googling but still hitting some snags...

I'm using Solar War pinball (just because it happened to be one I noticed it on) - grabbed the file from here and dumped it in the artwork directory
It works - I get the backdrop, but it shows _over_ the game - so I can't actually see anything

How can I fix this?

[Drybonz]

Turn off any scanlines you might be running and bump up the brightness and contrast just a couple notches in the MAME settings until the lines look nice and solid.

[Lordmonkus]

 

14 hours ago, vaderag said:

where they have backgrounds emulating how they'd have looked in the actual cab

I can't help you with the background images, I never bothered to try and set that up but I feel my vector settings are pretty good. I compared it to my Asteroids deluxe cabinet and they were pretty close but no perfect, I don't think you can perfectly replicate a vector display on a modern display yet.

 

5 minutes ago, Drybonz said:

Turn off any scanlines you might be running and bump up the brightness and contrast just a couple notches in the MAME settings until the lines look nice and solid.

HLSL has 2 different files for its settings, one for raster and one for vector. The scanlines won't be on the vector games.