Want to expanding to widescreen if horizontal, but keep aspect if a vertical game - can be done in MaLa but not GameEx?

[ryguy]

Hi, I'm new to this forum and building my arcade cabinet as we speak. I am using GameEx as my frontend and as space is an issue have decided to go the route of an LCD widescreen monitor rather than the more traditional CRT. All's going well, however I want to allow mame to expand the screen to take up the entire widescreen on horizontal games, but on vertical games keep the original (3:4) aspect - or maybe 4:4.

I can use "-nokeepaspect" under the mame command options which will do exactly what I need on horizontal games, however it does the same for vertical games, and fills the entire screen which obviously I don't want to do - 1941 doesn't work on 16:9!

MaLa has conditonal command options i.e. -nokeepaspect if horizontal etc - see attached jpeg - but I cannot find similar options in GameEx?

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,

[Tom Speirs]

Hi, I'm new to this forum and building my arcade cabinet as we speak. I am using GameEx as my frontend and as space is an issue have decided to go the route of an LCD widescreen monitor rather than the more traditional CRT. All's going well, however I want to allow mame to expand the screen to take up the entire widescreen on horizontal games, but on vertical games keep the original (3:4) aspect - or maybe 4:4.

I can use "-nokeepaspect" under the mame command options which will do exactly what I need on horizontal games, however it does the same for vertical games, and fills the entire screen which obviously I don't want to do - 1941 doesn't work on 16:9!

MaLa has conditonal command options i.e. -nokeepaspect if horizontal etc - see attached jpeg - but I cannot find similar options in GameEx?

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,

Hi,

that actually looks like a very nice feature of Mala. GameEx currently has no equivalent to that, so it currently cant be done sorry. I dont really no what else to suggest other than me to implement something similar in GameEx. If there is other demand for it I may do it.

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi,

that actually looks like a very nice feature of Mala. GameEx currently has no equivalent to that, so it currently cant be done sorry. I dont really no what else to suggest other than me to implement something similar in GameEx. If there is other demand for it I may do it.

I say go for it Tom.

Brian Hoffman

[iano]

Hi,

that actually looks like a very nice feature of Mala. GameEx currently has no equivalent to that, so it currently cant be done sorry. I dont really no what else to suggest other than me to implement something similar in GameEx. If there is other demand for it I may do it.

Could be a useful feature.

[ryguy]

Hi,

that actually looks like a very nice feature of Mala. GameEx currently has no equivalent to that, so it currently cant be done sorry. I dont really no what else to suggest other than me to implement something similar in GameEx. If there is other demand for it I may do it.

thanks for the reply, can't think of anyway around it, apart from revolving the monitor for vertical games - but at this stage was trying to keep the cab simple. It would be a great option if you did decide to incorporate it in the future, maybe I can drum up some support from other widescreen guys - hopefully they'll pick up the topic on their seaches, i'll wait and see!

cheers anyway,