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Hi guys, I had tried to perform a 4K AI upscaling of the Time Traveler video but the game appears to have slowed down considerably, furthermore all the elements created for Singe would have to be repositioned and enlarged to the new resolution, so in the end I decided to keep the original resolution by implementing the improvements obtained with AI. The result seems decent to me. I also resynchronized the audio for the entire title, in fact by cutting a few tenths of a second at the beginning of the track, as indicated in the Hypseus-Singe guide, the audio was synchronized at the beginning of the game and then desynchronized again towards the end. Furthermore, I created a bezel that instead of having the classic transparent window in which to place the game, has a semi-transparent window with some of the geometric elements present in the original cabinet, so as to recreate as much as possible semi-transparent effect of the holograms. Videos and links: Hypseus Singe

To use the bezels you have to run it in window mode without the FULLSCREEN_WINDOWS option, if you set a 16:9 resolution like 1920x1080 the game will still be displayed in 4:3 with the black bands but now the bezel will overlap. I use this mode, all batch files with the PClauncher module and they work great.

I created a sample video with Time Traveler to better explain the problem of 720x480 resolution videos. Initially I start the game in standard way through the Singe menu, then I open the game video with VLC and switching from one window to another I show how the video version started with Singe is slightly stretched, in the particular case the sphere where is enclosed the girl appears slightly oval compared to the one shown by VLC which is round, while the black borders in Singe are narrower than the full screen video in VLC. These games should have, like most arcades, a 4: 3 aspect ratio.

Yes sorry I misspelled, I mean -w

-w -z in my case does not seem to solve the problem, the images are always stretched horizontally and in any case with that option the RocketLauncher bezels are not overlapped.

Hi guys, I noticed that some titles, such as ALG, WoW and Time Traveler, use 720x480 (NTSC) video resolution which is not a 4:3 standard, videos if played back on a common player like VLC will be displayed with the correct "display aspect ratio" but Singe seems not recognize the correct aspect ratio integrated in the video treating it as if it were a 9:6 and consequently deforming it. This did not happen with the old Daphne Singe, I have the DVD version of Mad Dog always 720x480 but the aspect ratio is correct. I tried with Singe 2 to use different parameters such as "-a 4:3" or "-u" but if the first does not seem to have any effect, regardless of whether it is set to 4:3, 16:9 or omitted altogether, the second parameter (stretch) simply reduces the whole video around a quarter. Can someone tell me if there is a solution, for Time Traveler I personally converted the video to 640x480 but in the case of gun games this procedure seems to bust all targets.

Hi guys, I wanted to share a bezel for Time Traveler that I have been wanting to make for some time, it must be used with Rocketlauncher and HyperSpin, the only problem is that neither Daphne nor Singe natively support bezels so to center the video I had to use NirCmd. For now the preview, tomorrow if you like it post the files. P.S. I also resized the Time Traveler movie to 640x480 which was originally 720x480, I guess this was the original resolution but so the video is stretched (see girl in the oval bubble).

"Error compiling script: cannot open FreedomFighterglobals.singe: No such file or directory" There's a globals.singe but not a FreedomFighterglobals.singe, I've try to rename this one and edit the main singe file with the new FreedomFighterglobals.singe instead of globals.singe but now... "Error compiling script: cannot open FreedomFighterFreedomFighterglobals.singe: No such file or directory"

Can I play old Singe titles with new Singe 2 release? For example Freedom Fighter. I thought I read that it was backwards compatible but after the video file indexing the game does not start.

In fact after writing it I realized that among the new emulated titles ones only ActionMax games have two videos in the framefile

Hi guys, the correct command line launch isn't: singe.exe [OPTION] -v laserdisc.mkv laserdisc.singe ...but... singe.exe [OPTION] -v laserdisc.txt laserdisc.singe ...like for the older Daphne Singe. I suppose that the new release automatically recognize the framefile.txt with the same name of the file video, but for ActionMax games or any other title with multiple video specified on the frame file you can't point to a single video.mkv.

There's a new final release on official site: https://kangaroopunch.com/?page=Software%2F3000-2006-singe.xjs&fbclid=IwAR2eZxtVnzNR7bZWKozmVLAb6NDcVN3bpKAIDicZbavUl72N35nGW9i_00I

OK, I was pointing to the wrong video...

Hi! Is there a way to directly start a title without going through the menu? I tried pointing to the singe files inside the related game folders but it doesn't seem to work. I would like to put them in my HyperSpin with a direct launch.

Hi LizardKing, a clarification, I have not yet been able to try the 4K version on my 4K TV but I tried to run it on the Full HD monitor noticing something strange... If I start Daphne manually from the command line with the parameters -fullscreen -x 2880 -y 2160 an error appears on the screen indicating that the resolution is not supported, I thought it was due to having tried to start a 4K resolution on a monitor Full HD, but if I try to start the same 4K version from the launcher you created the game starts correctly. So I went to see the Daphne log to understand how it was launched and among the command line parameters I find -fullscreen -x 1920 -y 1080 despite having started the 4K version. Now, either the launcher you created checks the current resolution of the monitor in use by adjusting the command line or the 4K version runs in Full HD only, in the case of the second hypothesis I wonder: "Are you sure you can actually start a video with such a high resolution on Daphne? Am I doing something wrong? "