MAMEWorld Forums - Ultimarc - Re: Arcade VGA 5000 with HDTV display rotated

Sune,

I am very very thankful for your thought out response. I am glad that they are so many good people out there willing to give explanation for those that are trying to get problems solved.

I guess our differences on pixel scaling is more semantic. I understand now that the resolution isn't exactly changing, but in the end if there is any kind of scaling you have to have multiple pixels displaying bigger dots. I have never actually counted how many pixels on an Arcade screen make up one say..pellet on a Pacman display, but at the same time an LED display at a higher display, has to dedicate more pixels to draw the same pellet picture. Eventually if you have enough pixels, the difference won't be as perceptible.

I think it is all a trade off. While I understand people wanting authentic to what was played in the arcade, I also have always criticized the color bleeding not being uniform, the curve most of the time not being programmed for (i.e. uniform coding), the overall dimming that comes much faster on arcade displays, more prominent burn in,radiation, picture distortion to the edges...etc.

It is a trade off, but for me having a paper light display, and a nice big picture is what I want. That with something as good as I can get it with what I have on hand is also key. For me playing Pinball with a multiple display has been fantastic, and other than the DMD Pinball wasn't designed to be played on any display so it is a moot point when it comes to that love.

For me, again I file it under good enough.

If I may bug you about one more thing.

When I play Mortal Kombat with Direct Draw or Direct 3D I seem to get similar results (or perhaps it is imperceptible to me).

But the Arcade VGA is supposed to run Mortal Kombat at 53hz. Andy says it may or may not work on my HDTV depending on how the signal is sent to my PC through the VGA input.

If it does a kind of simulation this could be interesting because the website claims to have this mode and can do it for a PC Monitor. I used to own the card, and wish I could test it, but I that is why I am here. lol I keep wondering if it is worth the benefit and am just looking for second opinions on how useful this could be...or if it will even work at all on a 60hz LED display like I have. The problem as is known is that Mortal Kombat original display isn't a common multiplier of most modern day refresh rates, but the Ultimarc website claims to do 53hz...and exact 60hz.

I know it seemed to work with my LCD display years ago but I don't know how. If it does, I don't know how he can with it not being an even multiplier...but that would be pretty cool to again have some kind of emulated frame rate. Is this just a pipe dream? Anyone with experience on modern displays?