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MAME to TV
#302078 - 01/07/13 07:04 AM
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Hi guys, new here, need to ask a question. Trying to view main on my 32" HDTV, just bought a new laptop with a pair of HDMI ports...thought it would be as simple as connecting an HDMI cable from laptop to TV to have MAME viewable, I was wrong. Can someone please give me a tutorial or suggest perhaps a link to help troubleshoot this situation. Thank you!
Tommy
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Re: MAME to TV
[Re: Tommy2013]
#302079 - 01/07/13 07:08 AM
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Can you see your desktop on the tv? You have to switch the source to the HDMI you have it hooked up to.
Edited by joey35car (01/07/13 07:12 AM)
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Re: MAME to TV
[Re: joey35car]
#302080 - 01/07/13 07:19 AM
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Yeah I see my desktop on the TV, it's when I load MAME that I run into the proverbial black screen on the boob tube.
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Re: MAME to TV
[Re: Tommy2013]
#302140 - 01/07/13 10:54 PM
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> Yeah I see my desktop on the TV, it's when I load MAME that I run into the proverbial
> black screen on the boob tube.
The easiest way is to set the TV as the primary display in Windows or in your video driver control panel.
There is also a way to configure MAME to run on a secondary display but I don't know the syntax for that, see the docs or the FAQ.
S
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Re: MAME to TV
[Re: Tommy2013]
#302141 - 01/07/13 10:58 PM
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screen goes black when you launch a game?
might be trying to switch to low-res, which your tv surely does not support.
try the -noswitchres command line switch.
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Re: MAME to TV
[Re: Sune]
#302147 - 01/07/13 11:40 PM
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I'll try the suggestions on display, I know MAME runs low-res, I figure that might complicate things on an HD display. Mind use I'm running Win 8, I also considered as an alternative a VGA to S-Video cable...I do have a LCD non-hd television...perhaps that could work?
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Re: MAME to TV
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#302150 - 01/08/13 12:34 AM
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> I'll try the suggestions on display, I know MAME runs low-res, I figure that might
> complicate things on an HD display. Mind use I'm running Win 8, I also considered as
> an alternative a VGA to S-Video cable...I do have a LCD non-hd television...perhaps
> that could work?
If your desktop shows on the HDMI display, obviously the cable and your TV are fine, right?
MAME does not "run low-res", it runs at your current resolution by default. So unless you have changed that yourself, then resolution is not the problem either.
By default, MAME always runs on your primary display, which is your laptop screen. That's why you don't see anything on the external display. It's like I said, you need to either make your HDMI TV the primary display, or find out how to configure MAME to run on the secondary display. MAME does not know that you have a secondary display hooked up until you tell it.
Actually there is a third "solution" which is to run MAME in a window and then dragging it onto the secondary display.
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Try this in your mame.ini
[Re: Tommy2013]
#302153 - 01/08/13 01:22 AM
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# PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS
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screen \\.\DISPLAY2
aspect auto
resolution auto
view auto
screen0 auto
aspect0 auto
resolution0 auto
view0 auto
screen1 auto
aspect1 auto
resolution1 auto
view1 auto
screen2 auto
aspect2 auto
resolution2 auto
view2 auto
screen3 auto
aspect3 auto
resolution3 auto
view3 auto
What it does it switch over to your 2nd screen. Just switch to \\.\DISPLAY1 if it doesn't.
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Re: MAME to TV
[Re: Sune]
#302166 - 01/08/13 04:15 AM
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I got it to work, I tinkered with the switchres option in config menu, it did the job.
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Re: MAME to TV
[Re: Tommy2013]
#302187 - 01/08/13 09:24 AM
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