Does MAME have any filters to get rid of blocky gfx

[wilchy]

OK i have bought the amazing Gameex Frontend but im a bit of a newb to emulation. I have searched all over the internet to find any filters or image enhancers for mame32. and I can find nothing around. Does anyone know if there are any (Like the SNES And Genesis ones) and if so where and how do I use them. Thanks and any help would be much appreciated.

[rlswick]

OK i have bought the amazing Gameex Frontend but im a bit of a newb to emulation. I have searched all over the internet to find any filters or image enhancers for mame32. and I can find nothing around. Does anyone know if there are any (Like the SNES And Genesis ones) and if so where and how do I use them. Thanks and any help would be much appreciated.

Just click on a game,right click select properies go up to display you have a few choices

I use triple buffering

[chriss]

if you mean image enhancers similar to zsnes (like smoothing out blocky gfx) you should use mame plus. It gives you the option to enhance video display with the 2xsai engine or the eagle engine for example.

It makes the old games look much better in my opinion!

If you want to get rid of the disclaimer screens telling you to move the joystick or press ok or noticing you about imperfect games it gets a bit more tricky but it's doable. just pm me if you are intersetd in self compiling your mame version!

[wilchy]

if you mean image enhancers similar to zsnes (like smoothing out blocky gfx) you should use mame plus. It gives you the option to enhance video display with the 2xsai engine or the eagle engine for example.

It makes the old games look much better in my opinion!

If you want to get rid of the disclaimer screens telling you to move the joystick or press ok or noticing you about imperfect games it gets a bit more tricky but it's doable. just pm me if you are intersetd in self compiling your mame version!

Thanks for the quick replies guys. I have downloaded MAME Plus and have used the image enhancers. Much better indeed thanks chriss. Also whats all this compliling about? Sorry to be so dumb but I haven got a clue what its all about.

[chriss]

in the official mame release the developers have stated that you can't disable nag screens telling you about errors in an emulation of a specific game (eg puzzle bobble 4). so all derivates of the original mame (like mame plus) have to pay attention to these rules (even if mame plus has support for saving high scores in games which the original mame doesn't support anymore)

these issues don't matter to people who have their keyboard and mouse to click ok on the warning screen to get rid of it

but if you have a cabinet built with arcade joysticks and buttons (like the x-arcade) instead of keyboard and mouse then it could be quite annoying especially in attract mode (having the screensaver set up to display mame games at random). many games won't start because of the nag screen.

so you compile your own version. it's more for advanced users because you got to download the source code and change settings in the file /emu/src/ui.c to disable all warnings. after that you "compile" means you render the source code into a program (exe and dll files)

thats what it's all about

[bkenobi]

I don't recommend a new user compile their own version of MAME unless they are technically inclined. However, if you are interested in giving it a try, check out this thread.

[wilchy]

Cheers again everyone. I think I will read around and get to grips with mame before any compiling. Thanks anyway guys.