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Usage
VANTAGE gamename [-option] [-option] ...
Command line options
-help
:displays command line options
-listgames
:lists supported games
-listshort
:short form list of supported games
-listlong
:long form list of supported games
(shows ROM names,number of CPUs etc)
:Generates ArcadeOS support files
vantage.app,vantage.dat,vantage.nms,vantage.cln
-vesa
-novesa
:Use VESA video modes (default -vesa)
-vertscan
-novertscan
:Produce correctly orientated scanlines for vertical
games running on a horizontal PC monitor (default -novertscan)
-arcade
-noarcade
:arcade monitor output
-scanlines
-noscanlines
hardware scanline video mode
-vsync
-novsync
:sync game to monitor
-soundcard [val]
:selects soundcard to use
0=Silence
1=Sound Blaster
2=Sound Blaster AWE32
3=Pro Audio Spectrum
4=Ultrasound Max (CS4231 Codec)
5=Ultrasound
6=Windows Sound System
7=Ensoniq Soundscape
-samplerate [val]
:sample rate to use (11025,22050,44100)
-frameskip [val]
:frames to skip , 0 - 11 (inclusive)
-vol [val]
:volume, val must be in the range 0-15 inclusive
-joy [val]
:joystick type, legal values are :-
0 - no joystick (default)
1 - 2 button joystick/pad
2 - 4 button joystick/pad
3 - 6 button joystick/pad
4 - 8 button joystick/pad
5 - Sidewinder
6 - Gamepad PRo
7 - PSX pad
(see section 'Joysticks / JoyPads' for more info)
-scale
-noscale
:Scales tall vertical games to fit on a horizontal arcade monitor.
This is a game specific scaling routine, designed to
keep 'line loss' in less noticable places
-crop
-nocrop
:Crops tall vertical games to fit on a horizontal arcade monitor.
This removes the score and number of lives from the
screen, but keeps the playfield on screen
NOTE:
See section 'Vertical Games on a Horizontal Arcade Monitor'
for more info on the above 2 options
-flipxy
-noflipxy
:flips picture upside down
-rol
-norol
:runs game rotated left 90 degrees
-ror
-noror
:runs game rotated right 90 degrees
-origrotate -noorigrotate
:runs game at original rotation
NOTE:
RUNNING GAMES WITH -rol,-ror or -origrotate RECREATES THE AUTHENTIC
DISPLAY OF THE ORGINAL ARCADE GAME.
ALL GAMES WITHIN VAntAGE RAN ON ROTATED MONITORS.
HOWEVER, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU *NEVER* ROTATE A MONITOR
THAT WAS NOT SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
BE AWARE THAT MONITORS ARE DANGEROUS HIGH VOLTAGE DEVICES AND
CONTAIN OUTPUT TRANSFORMERS WHICH GENERATE
24000 (TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND) OR MORE VOLTS
-log
-nolog
:generates a log file (vantage.log)
-background
-nobackground
:turns background graphics on/off (if a game has them)
-playback
-noplayback
:plays back recorded input file - io\[gamename].io
-record
-norecord
:records input to the file - io\[gamename].io
-throttle
-nothrottle
:speed throttling of game
-precalc
-noprecalc
:generate precalculated graphics data
For slow machines, VAntAGE can generate 'PC ready'
versions of a game's graphics.
This greatly speeds up the startup of games once
this data has been generated.
However, it does take up a lot of disk space.
see the section - 'Precalculated Data' for more info
