Top requested arcade games for overlays
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@UDb23 thank you that does look better! Now I just need to figure out what settings to tweak so I can see my "shots" better in star castle.
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@quicksilver - To add to what @UDb23 was saying is you can take your vector multiplier up to 4 under Quick Menu -> Options and turn on bi-linear filtering under Setting -> Video. That will get you to as thin as you can take it. If that's to thin try 3 with bi-linear filtering. I find on the TV it's perfect at 4 but 3 is fine on a monitor.
Flicker seems to only make increments of 10 in Plus, whereas, AdvMAME you can do single number increments to get that flicker just perfect.
I like a beam width of 1.0 on a TV but 1.2 on a monitor.
Intensity you have to play around with the higher the intensity the thinner you can go with that line.
Anti-alias I just leave on as it just helps to smooth the line.
Yes the BD's do work in AdvMAME well Omega Race looks good. I would test the games you want to run with AdvMAME as performance seems to vary. I thought vector games did run ok but it's been a while.
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@Riverstorm Temperatures still crazy at -45C !!?
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@UDb23 - Oh, that's good news for backdrops.
For sure the temps have improved significantly. It was a rough few days and I think they reported around 9 various cold related deaths throughout the Midwest. This week we are going in the -15 to -18C range for highs so not great but it feels much better than what it had been. I like cold weather but that was just to cold. :) After that kind of cold a light jacket feels perfect at 32F/0C.
One of the local weather men did a test with full unopened cans of pop and beer during the extreme cold. The pop cans exploded and knocked the other cans over so he kept sitting them up. I don't think I would have put my face down there. The beer strangely enough did more of a directed squirt once it broke open and not so much of a explosion. He also threw a cup of water that looked like vapor as it hit the air.
Where you were at near Mt. Rushmore, whatever we get here they get it worse when it comes to snow due to the elevation. It takes a foot of snow or so (around 30 cm) before things are affected. Rural areas usually get it worse than urban for snow drifting due to wide open fields. We are mainly agriculture and livestock here.
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@Riverstorm said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:
The pop cans exploded
This week we are going in the -15 to -18C range
Still very tough weather conditions!
Lowest temp I experienced was about -20C while snowboarding (about 3000 mt elev.), with quite strong winds.... not fun at all.
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@quicksilver said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:
I would be very interested in overlays for space fury and star castle.
Star Castle created and available in the Repo:
Note: had no time to actually test it.
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@UDb23 - Thanks for the new overlay.
You're spot on. The wind is the wild card killer for sure. Cold with no wind is still pretty cold and causes frost bite quickly but once you add wind in the mix it becomes a killer that strips heat from the body pretty fast and stings.
The house made a lot of "popping" noises as things expanded. Concrete and driveways up-heave a few inches. Chimney's are caked in ice due to warn moist air hitting extreme cold. Windows freeze with ice on the inside. Where the air meets the window glass it (the air) can't hold as much moisture so it "drops" water droplets on the window and overnight you get pretty thick ice. Tire pressure lowers with cold so sensors are tripped for low tire pressure. That kind of cold just eats batteries. I always buy the biggest cold cramping amp battery I can get a hold of for my car. We also fight a little with freezing rain so in this area we pull up your windshield wipers so they are up off the windshield, like you're cleaning the windshield, and then leave them that way at work. No one usually messes with them.
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@Riverstorm said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:
we pull up your windshield wipers so they are up off the windshield, like you're cleaning the windshield
We do the same in winter in the mountains; all other things you described are something we never had around here. They sound fascinating from some point of view but would imagine daily life becomes extremely complicated if those conditions persist over longer periods.
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They are definitely interesting in short bursts. You see things happen you never thought cold would do but overall I like the cold. It may sound weird but after that extreme cold for a few days being above above zero actually feels ok, especially if the sun is shining. :)
Ok heading out here. I have to be at work early tomorrow as we are starting our implementation phase of our VMWare and SRM upgrade on all our blade servers so I'll be off and on over the next week. Then I'll settle into a routine of upgrading each blade.
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@UDb23 thank you, looks great! I'll test it tonight.
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@UDb23 @quicksilver - My wife let me interrupt her show and do a quick test during a commercial break. It's works good. Meleu's menu is incredibly quick for testing.
@quicksilver - I still use your Quake stress test when overclocking. It's become my go to for stability testing now. :)
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@Riverstorm Thats great to hear. I am still in the process of getting my setup switched over to retropie 4.4 so I havent had a chance to check out the overlay yet. I am upgrading my pi3b to a 3b+ and it should be coming tomorrow so I am definitely running some quake 3 stress testing in the near future :)
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@UDb23 yes! Thank you it looks great!
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@UDb23 Any idea why I am getting a black screen while using your missile command overlay? I can see the overlay and I can hear the game audio but game-play area is black. Tested without the overlay and the game works fine.
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hey fellas, anyone have a 4:3 space invaders? searched high and low.. cant find one
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@quicksilver said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:
black screen while using your missile command overlay?
Seems one of the cfg files was messed up.
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@UDb23 said in Top requested arcade games for overlays:
Seems one of the cfg files was messed up.
That's weird I have no problems at all. I'm pretty sure I tried before you changed the cfg file.
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@Brigane it was setting specific viewport for 1080p. Worked fine on my tv too;maybe he has a different resolution screen. Updated cfg relies on core provided game area instead of fixing coordinates.
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