Advancemame or mameplus question

[jakedrummer]

hello i am currently using mame32uifx with a lcd tv i want to use filters to get ride of the blocky picture im getting I tried to get advancemame to work and gave up on it then went to mameplus because it has the filters with it but couldnt get it to work in gameex, now im back to mame 32uifx trying to get advance mame working again, anyone use it here or does anyone able to get mame plus working on gamex.

[Tom Speirs]

AdvanceMAME is old now. I am using MAME Plus. It works no differently from any other MAME version as far as I know.

[u-man]

yes... plus you want to play MAME on a LCD. Why would you need AdvanceMAME for this task ??? To play out the main advantage of AdvanceMAME you would need a CRT Setup .

I use MAMEUIFX too, it is the best choice (for beginners and LCD), far better then MAME-Plus. It loads much faster, has everything what MAME-Plus has and even more.

Better we look into your problems with the effects. If you have setup your MAMEUIFX and everything works well inside MAMEUIFX, then you only need to put "-readconfig" (without quotes) into your command line for MAME inside your Setupwizard of GameEx.

To enable the effects, you need to open the default game options, inside of MAMEUIFX. You need to enable Direct 3D to work with effects. Then go to the Advanced Section and select your effect (i.e. Scanlines).... Thats it.

[jakedrummer]

Ok thanks Tom, I tried to get mame plus to work, i had mameuifx working but what i did was just move all the gameex directores in the setup wizerd to the mame plus rom, artwork, snaps,ect and i tried to start gameex the nag screen would count from 20 to 1 and when it got to 1 my computer would freeze i did this tried about 10 times and it did the same thing, so then i went back to mameuifx and i got that working again. I havent been into this for too long, I just want to be able to use to of the filters that help smoth out the jaggies.

U-man, I guess i didnt understand what advance mame was for i just seen on there website that it has filter effects, i messeed with the effects a little i will try them again so the scanlines help smoth things out, i will give it a shot. will post back about my results.

[jakedrummer]

Ok i got it figured out, with mameuifx i like the realscanline setting with the contrast set to 1.20 that seemed to work pretty good, but i like the mameplus filter hq4 bold better it realy smoothes everything out and seems like the colors are brighter, im not exactly sure what i was doing wrong but i got mameplus working through gameex now, i must of had one of the directories wrong.