06853: gnw_dm53, gnw_jr55, gnw_mw56: Dual screen Game & Watch graphics distorted in OpenGL when prescaled

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
06853	Graphics	Minor	Always	Jan 22, 2018, 23:03	Jan 15, 2022, 00:39

Tester	ICEknight	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	Open	OS	Windows 10 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Acknowledged			Driver	handheld/hh_sm510.cpp
Version	0.193	Fixed in Version		Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	06853: gnw_dm53, gnw_jr55, gnw_mw56: Dual screen Game & Watch graphics distorted in OpenGL when prescaled
Description	The vector graphics loaded from SVG files look distorted in OpenGL mode when "prescale" is set to 2 or 3. The attached examples show how "Mickey & Donald" looks when the prescale setting is set to 0 and 3, respectively. The distortion is specially noticeable in thin lines.
Steps To Reproduce	Set video to "opengl", set prescale to "2" or "3", start any dual screen Game & Watch.
Additional Information	Looks fine in d3d mode.
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Affected Sets / Systems	gnw_dm53, gnw_jr55, gnw_mw56

Attached Files	opengl prescale 3.png (672,190 bytes) Jan 22, 2018, 23:03 Uploaded by ICEknight Left: prescale=0 \| Right: prescale=3

No.14679 hap Developer Jan 22, 2018, 23:49	It doesn't look like a bug to me, but I'm a little surprised that (after some testing) it indeed only happens on the dual-screen games. I don't think using -prescale on these SVG 'screens' is a good idea. What MAME's doing here, is it's upscaling(without filtering) an already high resolution anti-aliased image, then downscaling it again to your screen size using opengl's whatever filtering algorithm. It's not going to come out the same.
No.14684 ICEknight Tester Jan 26, 2018, 17:40	Since the LCD graphics are already huge, perhaps the SVG contents could be pre-downscaled (when loaded) as many times as the entered prescale value, so that they'll end up looking just like they do when prescale=0? At least until/if a cleaner solution is found. Prescaling is a must for getting perfectly edged and smooth scrolling pixels that don't change sizes in certain emulated resolutions (the Streets of Rage intro comes to mind) and this distortion is quite noticeable when switching to one of these games, so I would say it may qualify as a bug.
No.19686 galibert Developer Jan 14, 2022, 10:02	Not only prescaling is stupid (it should be handled by a shader by just working on the fractional part of the u/v) but prescaling an anti-aliased svg is stupider.
No.19688 ICEknight Tester Jan 15, 2022, 00:39 edited on: Jan 15, 2022, 00:40	It was left on for pixel-based games since the prescale option can't be accessed from the UI, I obviously wasn't deliberately prescaling already perfectly sharp SVGs when I found out.