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MAME Artwork Troubles

Stu1983

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Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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This is not a GameEx problem but I thought I'd ask anyway.

When I tell MAME to use D3D or GDI video mode, the various games that support artwork display it as expected but if I change to DDRAW mode the artwork vanishes.

I need to run in DDRAW mode as I have a ArcadeVGA and it gives more accurate graphics.

I've been testing with Donkey Kong and when I run it in DDRAW mode I can see a wee tiny bit of the bezel at the very bottom near the credits so it's still there and I can turn it on and off but all the side artwork is gone

I've attached 2 jpgs

Stu

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bkenobi GameEx God (Top Rank)

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This most likely has to do with your artwork crop setting. You can have MAME either display the whole bezel, crop to the best fit, or I believe something in between. It looks to me like it's cropping to the best fit of your screen. As a result, you only see a couple lines at the top and bottom of the screen (the top is likely black).

Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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This most likely has to do with your artwork crop setting. You can have MAME either display the whole bezel, crop to the best fit, or I believe something in between. It looks to me like it's cropping to the best fit of your screen. As a result, you only see a couple lines at the top and bottom of the screen (the top is likely black).

That's what I was thinking at first but it doesn't matter if I have it cropped or not I still can't see it when I'm in DDRAW mode

Stu

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Maybe it's a resolution thing then. Perhaps that mode will only send a 640x480 resolution regardless of source? If that's the case, then new high res games should be cropped to inside the game. I had that problem with one of the pacman games as I recall and I think it was when I was using DDRAW. I run D3D now and everything works fine. I use a TV and a PC CRT for my two cabs, so I don't have a need to run in DDRAW mode (so perhaps things have changed). If I needed scan lines, I would probably experiment more though.

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Here you go

# <UNADORNED0>            <NULL> (not set)

#
# CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS
#
rompath                   roms
samplepath                samples
artpath                   artwork
ctrlrpath                 ctrlr
inipath                   ini
fontpath                  .

#
# CORE OUTPUT DIRECTORY OPTIONS
#
cfg_directory             cfg
nvram_directory           nvram
memcard_directory         memcard
input_directory           inp
state_directory           sta
snapshot_directory        snap
diff_directory            diff
comment_directory         comments

#
# CORE FILENAME OPTIONS
#
cheat_file                cheat.dat

#
# CORE COMMANDS
#

#
# CONFIGURATION COMMANDS
#

#
# FRONTEND COMMANDS
#

#
# CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
#
readconfig                1
skip_gameinfo             1

#
# MISC OPTIONS
#
bios                      default
cheat                     0

#
# STATE/PLAYBACK OPTIONS
#
#state                   <NULL> (not set)
autosave                  1
# playback                <NULL> (not set)
# record                  <NULL> (not set)
# mngwrite                <NULL> (not set)
# wavwrite                <NULL> (not set)

#
# DEBUGGING OPTIONS
#
log                       0
oslog                     0
verbose                   0

#
# PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
#
autoframeskip             0
frameskip                 0
throttle                  1
sleep                     0
priority                  1
multithreading            1

#
# VIDEO OPTIONS
#
video                     ddraw
numscreens                1
window                    0
maximize                  1
keepaspect                1
prescale                  1
effect                    none
pause_brightness          0.65
waitvsync                 0
syncrefresh               1

#
# VIDEO ROTATION OPTIONS
#
rotate                    1
ror                       0
rol                       0
autoror                   0
autorol                   0
flipx                     0
flipy                     0

#
# DIRECTDRAW-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
hwstretch                 0

#
# DIRECT3D-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
#
d3dversion                9
filter                    1

#
# PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
#
screen                    auto
aspect                    auto
resolution                640x480
view                      auto
screen0                   auto
aspect0                   auto
resolution0               auto
view0                     auto
screen1                   auto
aspect1                   auto
resolution1               auto
view1                     auto
screen2                   auto
aspect2                   auto
resolution2               auto
view2                     auto
screen3                   auto
aspect3                   auto
resolution3               auto
view3                     auto

#
# FULL SCREEN OPTIONS
#
triplebuffer              0
switchres                 0
full_screen_brightness    1.0
full_screen_contrast      1.0
full_screen_gamma         1.0

#
# GAME SCREEN OPTIONS
#
brightness                1.0
contrast                  1.0
gamma                     1.0

#
# VECTOR RENDERING OPTIONS
#
antialias                 1
beam                      1.0
flicker                   0

#
# ARTWORK OPTIONS
#
artwork_crop              1
use_backdrops             1
use_overlays              1
use_bezels                1

#
# SOUND OPTIONS
#
sound                     1
samplerate                48000
samples                   1
volume                    0
audio_latency             1

#
# INPUT DEVICE OPTIONS
#
# ctrlr                   <NULL> (not set)
mouse                     0
joystick                  1
lightgun                  1
dual_lightgun             0
offscreen_reload          1
steadykey                 0

#
# AUTOMATIC DEVICE SELECTION OPTIONS
#
paddle_device             keyboard
adstick_device            keyboard
pedal_device              keyboard
dial_device               keyboard
trackball_device          keyboard
lightgun_device           keyboard

Stu1983 GameEx God (Top Rank)

Stu1983

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:o

See what happens when I actually got to do work... Bkenobi sneaks right in and capitalizes on my misfortune...

hehehehe

Good job

changing crop artwork to 0 didn't work at first but then I changed the aspect ratio in game and the bezel appeared but it's no good unless it's cropped as I don't want to loose part of my playing screen, I only want it to fill in the gaps at the side as it does in d3d mode, I'm assuming this must be a bug with ddraw and cropping artwork, would someone like to confirm it for me?

Just run dkong with artwork cropped turn on and video set to D#D then try it again with video set to DDRAW and see if you loose artwork down the side

Stu

bkenobi GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Yeah, I'm guessing this is just a difference between how D3D and DDRAW are implemented in MAME. I don't think the same modes are implemented the same. When I switched to D3D, I had to start from scratch determining what settings I liked since everything was different. I would have thought that you could get it to display the same given enough permutations, but sounds like you tried everything I would have suggested already. I'll let Brian go ahead and finish this one off ;)

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