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There is so much good about MAME I'm upset at the fact that you choose to focus on one particular shortcoming in Windows (regular build, not SDL) for one video mode (D3D) to the point of calling an entire team of dedicated people who volunteer their real time, efforts and money to contribute to an open and source free project.. "morons"?
Well, that's not just one particular shortcoming, it's an actual game breaking issue. In the moment, I only have three options:
1. Playing the game with a bilinear filter, having blurry images.
2. Playing the game with some pixels stretched more than others.
3. Using DirectDraw which defeats the purpose of implementing the new video system in the first place.
And as I already said: That's the default behavior in every freaking emulator anyway. That's like if manufacturers of a 16:9 TV "forget" to make it possible to let you see a 4:3 program in 4:3 with black bars left and right and only enable you to horizontally stretch the image or to cut off the top and the bottom of it. How would you call those people?
Integer scaling is not just some random little option like debug output or anything. It's the option that enables you to actually play the game with all the pixels correctly in place. This feature missing is like a car whose windows are curved and distort the outside image.
By the way, the new video display was changed six years ago. Don't you think if they simply "forgot" it, they should have remembered it again by now?
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I suppose you are entitled to your opinion but you really should think about what you say before you say it. You are not leaving me with a good first impression, that's all I can say.
I do think about what I say before I say it. And just because the MAME developers can program doesn't mean I have to admire everything they do. It's a fact that integer scaling is the default behavior for most emulators. And it's a fact that the bilinear filter looks nothing like a TV screen, so it's not really an alternative. And every amateur sprite comic tutorial tells you to never stretch sprites in numbers other than full integers. So, yes, if a world-famous emulator misses this basic feature, there's only one word for it: Moronic. Especially because the MAME developers managed to create such a huge program, their mistake is even more glaring. That's like if someone writes "I would of done that" instead of "I would've done that." You can forgive him if he's just a teenager, but if a university professor of the English language writes "I would of done that", then that's a prime example of stupidity. So, if some IT student tries to write his first little video game, I might not bother if he forgets to implement integer scaling. But the one and only arcade emulator not even having the default display option? That's unforgivable.
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