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Hey,

First I want to say thanks!
The first system I ever owned was an Atari, then a Coleco. Wow Coleco made Atari look like crap! I fell in love with Video games!! I skipped the Intelevision because I hated the controler.

Then it came!! The Sega Master System!! I nearly wet my pants at Xmas morning, 1987!!

Ever since then I have always brought my SMS out of its box every year for some memories!

I have now grown up (not much) and have bought a few arcade cabs and have now built a cab with ADVmenu and ADVmame running in it! This seemed to tie me over for a while but I needed my SMS fix. I installed Meka (the best SMS emulator) and was jumping for joy the moment I got it working. I have now spent over 3 hours configuring ADVmenu and MEKA so that I get the best possible experiance.

Here is the thing. I am unable to get Meka to run in Full Screen on my Arcade Cab. i have done everything I can.

Im using ver or MON-ARCH that outputs a 15khz to my arcade monitor but becasue meka only works in fullscreen with strech this makes it look funny and inacurate.

Has anyone ever considered porting meka to ADVmeka? so that we can hit the proper resolutions on a arcade cab or TV.
Does anyone have any suggestion..

Thanks in advance!!

and once again MEKA ROCKS!!

Have you edited meka.blt to enter some suitable resolutions? SMS is natively [256 or 248]x[192 or 224], Game Gear is 160x144. You can also double those resolutions and use the double blitter. If you are running in Windows it may be necessary to mess with some registry settings to make the video driver allow these resolutions. You can change blitter at runtime with the F1 key.

I tried a few resolutions but double screen is not a solution since it created interlacing flickering. I will try the resolutions you suggested.. :) Im running in DOS, I feel that running through windows ruins the arcade cab experiance.

Thanks.

Meka Says Unable to run at desired resolution (256x240)

:(

any further suggestions?

Thanks.

Try 512x384 doubled (for most SMS games). Meka uses Allegro for video, if Allegro can't switch then it's not in Meka's power to change it.

theboy_181 wrote

I have now grown up (not much) and have bought a few arcade cabs and have now built a cab with ADVmenu and ADVmame running in it!

How the heck did you ever afford arcade cabs?
Also, how the heck did you come up with a space to put those?!?!?

LOL,

Your questions are a bit strange. How does anyone afford to do what they desire? Sell drugs of course!! LOL no really, you have really want it, and to tell you the truth if you have the space you can get a arcade cab for as little as 150 bucks.
If you have the knowledge or the ability to read you can make a computer run in that cab with loads of great emulators such as MEKA!!!!

Now go look and see if you have any room for a few cabinets...

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theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	How to get MEKA fullscreen on an arcade monitor? Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:55 am
theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	Hey, First I want to say thanks! The first system I ever owned was an Atari, then a Coleco. Wow Coleco made Atari look like crap! I fell in love with Video games!! I skipped the Intelevision because I hated the controler. Then it came!! The Sega Master System!! I nearly wet my pants at Xmas morning, 1987!! Ever since then I have always brought my SMS out of its box every year for some memories! I have now grown up (not much) and have bought a few arcade cabs and have now built a cab with ADVmenu and ADVmame running in it! This seemed to tie me over for a while but I needed my SMS fix. I installed Meka (the best SMS emulator) and was jumping for joy the moment I got it working. I have now spent over 3 hours configuring ADVmenu and MEKA so that I get the best possible experiance. Here is the thing. I am unable to get Meka to run in Full Screen on my Arcade Cab. i have done everything I can. Im using ver or MON-ARCH that outputs a 15khz to my arcade monitor but becasue meka only works in fullscreen with strech this makes it look funny and inacurate. Has anyone ever considered porting meka to ADVmeka? so that we can hit the proper resolutions on a arcade cab or TV. Does anyone have any suggestion.. Thanks in advance!! and once again MEKA ROCKS!!

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14745 Location: London	Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:00 am
	Have you edited meka.blt to enter some suitable resolutions? SMS is natively [256 or 248]x[192 or 224], Game Gear is 160x144. You can also double those resolutions and use the double blitter. If you are running in Windows it may be necessary to mess with some registry settings to make the video driver allow these resolutions. You can change blitter at runtime with the F1 key.

theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:05 pm
theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	I tried a few resolutions but double screen is not a solution since it created interlacing flickering. I will try the resolutions you suggested.. :) Im running in DOS, I feel that running through windows ruins the arcade cab experiance. Thanks.

theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:13 pm
theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	Meka Says Unable to run at desired resolution (256x240) :( any further suggestions? Thanks.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14745 Location: London	Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:04 am
	Try 512x384 doubled (for most SMS games). Meka uses Allegro for video, if Allegro can't switch then it's not in Meka's power to change it.

aqua_hedgehog Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 120 Location: Anchorage, Alaska	Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:31 am
	theboy_181 wrote I have now grown up (not much) and have bought a few arcade cabs and have now built a cab with ADVmenu and ADVmame running in it! How the heck did you ever afford arcade cabs? Also, how the heck did you come up with a space to put those?!?!?

theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:40 am
theboy_181 Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 10	LOL, Your questions are a bit strange. How does anyone afford to do what they desire? Sell drugs of course!! LOL no really, you have really want it, and to tell you the truth if you have the space you can get a arcade cab for as little as 150 bucks. If you have the knowledge or the ability to read you can make a computer run in that cab with loads of great emulators such as MEKA!!!! Now go look and see if you have any room for a few cabinets...

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