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Screen cut off top and bottom on NTSC LCD TV #4

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch SDL-Mame Wii on a NTSC Wii (USA)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to see the full screen. Instead the Top/Bottom are cut. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The version provided with the pacman bug fix (0.5+ I guess)

Please provide any additional information below.
I haven't played with the safe area setting since it says that it's only on
older TV. I've got a pretty new LCD tv. I'm wondering if it is somehow
compiled for PAL TV which have a higher vertical resolution instead of
figuring out which is the TV resolution at runtime?

Great port other wise! Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2010 at 7:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I played a few more games and it doesn't seem to be on all of them. Galaga and 
gng
cut both top and bottom. If I set galaga in cocktail mode it displays the full 
screen
fine.
sharrier on the other hand displays the full screen just fine. I hope this helps
figure it out.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 15 Apr 2010 at 4:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Is you Wii set to use widescreen? I haven't fully tested widescreen support yet 
so
that might be causing the problem.

Original comment by baby.lueshi@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 9:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
yes widescreen using the component cable.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 9:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Try setting your Wii to standard definition and see if the screen is still cut 
off.

Original comment by baby.lueshi@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 9:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I did set it to 4:3 and it still cut off in sdl-mame. The Wii system menu 
looked huge
but I wonder if HBC somehow detect the component cable and sets itself to 
widescreen?
Because I didn't notice a difference whatsoever in HBC or SDL-Mame.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 9:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
You wouldn't happen to have some composite/s-video cables to test this on, do 
you? If
so, please try those, with and without widescreen.

Original comment by baby.lueshi@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 10:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'll attempt a trip to the basement to locate the composite cable.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 10:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Amazingly the box was accessible and the cable still in it.
So I tried with the composite cable 4:3 TV resolution 480i instead of 
Widescreen 480p
and it still show the bottom of the screen in Galaga cut off. It shows only the 
first
row of pixels of the "Credits 0" line.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 11:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Are you testing on a PAL TV? I'm on NTSC which has a slightly lower vertical 
resolution.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 11:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
All my testing was done on a NTSC television.

Two more things: Does changing the safearea configuration value fix this? (Like
setting it to 0.9 or 0.85) And is the Menu having this problem? (You can test 
it by
going to the control configuration menu, which takes up pretty much the entire 
screen.)

Original comment by baby.lueshi@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 11:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
well I tried to set 0.9 but now all I get when I start sdl-mame is a black 
screen. I
put it back to 1.0 but I'm still getting a black screen. If I delete mame.ini 
will it
recreate one with the default settings?

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 11:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Grab the one from the .zip file and use that one.

What OS are you on/what text editor did you use the change it? (If you're on 
Windows,
try editing it using Notepad++)

Original comment by baby.lueshi@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 12:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I used PSPad under Windows, but first I edited it with WiiXplorer. Newly 
unzipped one
works again. safearea of 0.9 shows me the full screen in galaga and some more. I
haven't tried 0.95 but it might work. BTW it seems to show the same in 480i 4:3 
and
480p Widescreen.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 12:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Is the menu still cut off with a safearea of 1 though? (Once again, go to one 
of the
control configuration menus to test it since those are huge.

Original comment by baby.lueshi@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 3:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
yes it is still cut off at 1.0 In fact the very first menu with the list of 
games is
already cut off at the top and bottom. I never saw the white rectangles around 
each
sections at the top and bottom until I use 0.9. BTW I'm back to using component
cables but I tried both 4:3 and widescreen and it looks exactly the same.

Original comment by Pascal.P...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 12:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
you can always use the slider options in game? put vertical stretch on 930 
(some games need horizental stretch to be set on 930 because of the cabinet)

Original comment by defthe...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2011 at 4:26