01664: All sets in galdrvr.c: Games now using wrong resolution - 224x768

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
01664	Graphics	Minor	Always	Apr 3, 2008, 17:01	May 17, 2008, 16:35

Tester	haynor666	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Self-compiled)
Assigned To		Resolution	No change required	OS	Windows XP/Vista 32-bit
Status [?]	Closed			Driver	galaxian/galaxian.cpp
Version	0.124u1	Fixed in Version		Build	C2D
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	01664: All sets in galdrvr.c: Games now using wrong resolution - 224x768
Description	Wrong resolution, probably other games using this source might have this issue as well.
Steps To Reproduce	Run games and make some screenshots, check screenshots older and from 124u1.
Additional Information
Github Commit

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Regression Version
Affected Sets / Systems	All sets in galdrvr.c

Attached Files	0006.png (3,331 bytes) Apr 3, 2008, 17:01

No.00518 haynor666 Tester Apr 3, 2008, 17:03	Yep, all games using this source have now wrong resolution - 224x768
No.00522 Tafoid Administrator Apr 3, 2008, 17:46	It seems that all of sets in the driver show larger resolution than before. In fact, the WIDTH is set at 3x it's previous value. This doesn't seem to effect anything but the screenshots and this change is mostly likely by design. There are other drivers which report a resolution which is not the one actually used in the game and is determined at runtime per set. Before being a confirmed bug, I'll let Aaron comment.
No.00524 haynor666 Tester Apr 3, 2008, 18:08	Resolution reported by mame info is also now 224x768
No.00525 aaron Developer Apr 3, 2008, 18:17	That's the resolution necessary to reproduce the games, sorry you don't like it. Expand your screenshots 3x in the narrow direction to get them at the aspect ratio you are used to.
No.00527 haynor666 Tester Apr 3, 2008, 18:33	So why Tazz-mania (set 1) it uses but other sets no ?
No.00528 Tafoid Administrator Apr 3, 2008, 18:43	The other sets are still linked to the old way of doing things: tazzmang - Driver galaxold.c (unconverted sets from the old galaxian.c source) tazmani2 - Driver scobra.c (this driver and others (check the whatsnew.txt) will be converted to new galdrvr.c eventually) Just because the old way was hacked to work doesn't mean it's the proper way to emulate it.
No.00529 haynor666 Tester Apr 3, 2008, 18:54	Yep, probably it's not proper. Now of these games are actually work in such high resolution.
No.00535 Haze Senior Tester Apr 3, 2008, 21:54	should be correct. the starfield on the real hardware has a higher resolution than the game, so the minimum resolution needed for an accurate starfield is higher.
No.00544 haynor666 Tester Apr 4, 2008, 08:05	Interesting, I'm corious what was monitor freq of this games since resolution is so high, I know that for example amiga can generate 1024x256 but arcade machines operates in similiar way :\|
No.00991 Sune_S Senior Tester May 16, 2008, 17:27	You don't understand. Take a look at this: http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=151831&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1
No.00997 haynor666 Tester May 17, 2008, 16:35	Thanks for info. I guess now arcade monitors fans have to work a bit to run these games.