mkeveney
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Screen resolutions in database?

MAME experts,

I'm toying with the idea of building a large-scale LED matrix display specifically for supporting classic arcade games via MAME. I'm wondering about resolution and dimensions.

For example, I found a few mentions on the web that PacMan and Galaga use a screen having 224 x 228 pixels, but I suspect those are not _square_ pixels. I suspect the physical screen ratio was closer 3:4, so the pixels would be elongated in the short direction.

What I'm after is the logical and physical screen resolution of each game, so I can decide which games to support, and what pixel size would work well.

Is this available somewhere in the MAME game database? If so, could someone give me a pointer to where to look in the source code? Or, perhaps there's an online resource you could recommend?

In case it matters, I'm only interested in arcade games before 1985-ish. I can skip the consoles, computer games, handhelds, etc.

-Matt

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