[mythtv-users] How to scale MAME for 16:9?

Ian Armstrong mail01 at iarmst.co.uk
Sat May 14 14:11:49 UTC 2005


On Friday 13 May 2005 19:21, John Clabaugh wrote:
> I've recently received my 16:9 aspect TV and I am trying to get MAME
> to scale properly.  It currently looks like a 16:9 image squished
> inside a 4:3 frame running on a 16:9 TV.  Not pretty.  I have read
> several man pages and I see there is a "displayaspectratio 1.77"
> option that looks like it should do the trick.  Unfortunately when I
> add this to the "Extras" field in the default options, MAME refuses to
> start.  Here's a sample command line:
>
> /usr/bin/xmame -rompath /htpc/games/mame/roms -cheat_file
> /htpc/games/mame/cheats -history_file
> /htpc/games/mame/history/history.dat -snapshot_directory
> /htpc/games/mame/screens -hiscore_directory /htpc/games/mame/hiscores
> -hiscore_file /htpc/games/mame/hiscores/hiscore.dat -skip_disclaimer
> -skip_gameinfo -video-mode 0 -noartwork -noautoframeskip -bpp 0 -scale
> 1 -antialias -notranslucency   -analogstick -nowinkeys -nograbmouse
> -joytype 4 -samples -volume -16  -nocheat -displayaspectratio 1.77

<snip>

Have you tried running that exact command from a shell so you can see what 
mame reports? Which version of xmame are you running?

I'm using xmame.x11 0.95, and the only thing about your command line it didn't 
like was '-bpp 0' which wasn't a recognised option.

-- 
Ian


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