Re: VGA to Composite

 
>If I had to go through it again, while knowing what 
>I do, I might [use a PC monitor].

It has been very tempting. The main reasons that I don't are (1) TVs are
cheaper, (2) modern arcade cabs are mostly 25", and (3) I want to buy a
monitor bezel/shroud, and those are made for 25" monitors.

>Are you married? That seems to be the general 
>determinant. Comedic yet true.

Haha, 26 years and going strong. The wife has bought into my "retro"
theme for the living room. No way she'd go for 2 of them, though.

>Even at native resolutions, I don't enjoy golden age 
>(there was only one, mind) vertical games in 27 inches. 
>19 is right, hence, I only need one rig. 

I don't follow you on this one. Golden age games come in vertical and
horizontal. How does one 19" monitor work for you?

>As for the margins, there's a third option, usually. 
>Set things up so there aren't any. From what I've seen, if 
>connecting via S-vid or component and using hwstretch 
>or stock D3D settings in mame since the re-write, 
>both horizontal and vertical games are sized the same, 
>hence all's needed is going into the TVs service menu
>and sizing the screen appropriately. 

I don't understand. How can ver and horiz games be sized the same?
Either the (1) aspect ration must change, which would cuase the game to
look too tall & skinny or too short & fat, or (2) the aspect ratio stays
the same but the game is smaller on the screen, which leaves black
areas. How does hwstretch compensate for that? And what does the service
menu have to do with it? Sorry, I'm a real noob.

>HOWEVER - I just remembered - newer mame has a function 
>(in the same menu as the volume, etc) where you can stretch 
>the image without any artifacts. It's a software feature, 
>but acts the same as the hardware option on a monitor. 
>It's really quite nifty. It doesn't work well when running 
>at native resolutions, but might be fine in the scaled 
>circumstance of a TV.

Same question again. How does streching overcome the basic problem of
the game's aspect ratio without making it too short/fat/tall/skinny?

--
Eric Robinson




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