MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Getting older MAME to hide screen effects for vector games?

> > It looks like you have a .ini file in use, that overrides mame.ini and vector.ini
> > files.
> > Mind you, that there is a hierarchy for .ini files and often people think that the
> > mame.ini represents the highest priority (it´s the lowest).
> >
> > What version of MAME is actually used? It is not clear from your post. Where is
> your
> > focus on? Are you more interested in the vector games or the raster games or both?
>
> I am using MAME .117 (2007 release). I have the screen effect set to NONE in the
> vector.ini, and the screen effect set to the file name of the scan line effect .PNG
> in MAME.INI. So it should in theory use the NONE in the vector.ini when running a
> vector game right? It doesn't, it always uses the effect that MAME.ini calls up.
>
> I mostly use raster games as there are more of them but would still like to have the
> vector games look as they should.

Is there a later version that will run on your system? I'm fairly sure such effects are still possible via HLSL or the like. Even a Pentium 4 with Windows XP can run 0.179 (2016) straight out of the box.