Full screen advmame

[A Former User]

Hello everyone,

I would like to have all my games under advmame in full screen, but I do not find how to do it, here is my file advmame1.4.rc

advmame1.4.rc

How to modify it to have all my games in full screen?

thank you in advance

[mediamogul]

@cyclair

Do you mean fullscreen, as in the game's original fullscreen presentation, or fullscreen as in stretching the image to fit a 16x9 widescreen display? If it's the prior, AdvanceMAME should be defaulting to that presentation automatically and something could be preventing it from displaying the image correctly. If it's the latter, try changing display_aspect auto to display_aspect 16/9 in /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame/advmame.rc. You may also need to change display_expand 1.25 to display_expand 1, but maybe not.

[A Former User]

@mediamogul said in Full screen advmame:

yes I want a picture stretch for my screen 16-9

display_adjust none
display_antialias yes
display_artwork_backdrop yes
display_artwork_bezel no
display_artwork_crop yes
display_artwork_overlay yes
display_aspectx 4
display_aspecty 3
display_beam 1
display_brightness 1
display_buffer no
display_color auto
display_expand 1
display_flicker 0
display_flipx no
display_flipy no
display_frameskip auto
display_gamma 1
display_height 1024
display_intensity 1.5
display_interlaceeffect none
display_magnify 1
display_magnifysize 1208
display_mode auto
display_pausebrightness 1
display_resize integer
display_resizeeffect none
display_restore yes
display_rgbeffect none
display_rol no
display_ror no
display_scanlines no
display_skipcolumns auto
display_skiplines auto
display_translucency yes

changes 16-9 and 1 expand have not changed anything

[mediamogul]

@cyclair

You might also try display_expand 1.33

[A Former User]

@mediamogul said in Full screen advmame:

display_expand 1.33

display_expand 1.33 does not change anything.
Can not put games in full screen 16-9

[mediamogul]

@cyclair

I'm afraid I'm about out of ideas. I have display_expand set to '1' in order to display the image as it was originally intended. I've never really gone in any other direction before. It could be that display_magnifysize needs to be set to something besides '640', or even a particular combination of the previously mentioned settings. Perhaps @caver01 knows of a solution.

[caver01]

@cyclair When I looked at your linked .rc file, I see:

display_aspectx 4
display_aspecty 3

These should be changed. Now, if you are saying you already tried that, I would suggest changing from AdvanceMAME 1.4 to the newer AdvanceMAME, which is 3.7 at this point I believe. It uses the same romset, so no extra work there. But, the config for aspect ratio changed. The current way to capture this would be:
display_aspect 16/9 according to the current documentation.

If you also set display_expand 1.78 this will stretch the image to fill a 16:9 display. I just tried it with Gauntlet II and it was fullscreen.

OPINION FOLLOWS: It looked awful. The game was filling my big TV, but it was squashed. Round things look like ovals and everything is just distractingly stretched.

[mediamogul]

@caver01 said in Full screen advmame:

OPINION FOLLOWS: It looked awful.

I can only imagine how bad vertical games would look.

[caver01]

@mediamogul said in Full screen advmame:

I can only imagine how bad vertical games would look.

I think you would run out of stretch parameter, as the max value is 2.0. Running 1080p at that stretch factor, you would end up with 150px pillarbox borders on the sides.

So, it is important to note for @cyclair that if you are planning to fill the screen with vertical games too, you will only get to stretch those to 84% of the widescreen at display_expand 2.0.