Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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Is it possible to enable vertical scaling x5 with cropping for cores which do not have an OSD option for this via .ini? For example, Jotego arcade cores.

I have been looking for instructions but cannot find any. Thank you!
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Re: Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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There's no way to do this without the cores themselves being programmed to support it.
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Re: Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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According to Jotego and Atrac17 this has been added within the MiSTer framework itself so it can be added via .ini (their words not mine). That's why I am asking :)
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Re: Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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Insert Disk Two wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:51 pm According to Jotego and Atrac17 this has been added within the MiSTer framework itself so it can be added via .ini (their words not mine). That's why I am asking :)
If that's true, it would have to be something like how the shadowmask is handled in the ini file:

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;default Shadow Mask
;shmask_default=VGA.txt

;default shadow mask mode:
; 0 - none, 1 - 1x, 2 - 2x, 3 - 1x Rotated, 4 - 2x Rotated
;shmask_mode_default=1
But it's not documented, so you'd have to just try random .ini key names like crop_mode_default or 5x_crop something.

Assuming that functionality even exists. I'm hesitant to think it does, since the Mister.ini documentaiton doesn't list it.
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Re: Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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Do you have the link for the documentation you are quoting please? I am interested to test the shadow mask stuff with Jotego cores :)
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Re: Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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Insert Disk Two wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:33 pm Do you have the link for the documentation you are quoting please? I am interested to test the shadow mask stuff with Jotego cores :)
Note that all this does is set the default shadow mask used for any core that supports shadow masks where you haven't already selected one. If a core doesn't have shadow mask support (greyed out in the menu), it won't all of a sudden start working because of this setting.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... MiSTer.ini
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Re: Vertical crop in cores that don't support it in OSD

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Aaaah OK they added it on the last line, didn't see it there thanks!
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