NO 16-BIT XXXxXXX MODE AVAILABLE. What do I do?
This means your video card is not compliant to run in this high-color mode – don’t feel bad – MOST people’s video cards won’t support 16-bit color. Many games require 65,000 colors for complete and total emulation. Since 8-bit (256 colors) isn’t obviously enough, you must have 16-bit color to get this many colors. There are three work arounds to this problem – 1) upgrade to a compliant video card 2) Get Sci-Tech’s Display Doctor – it will software-upgrade your video card to greater standards (most cards) or 3) use the -depth 8 parameter when launching MAME. (e.g. MAME RASTAN -640×480 -depth 8) This will knock the display back to 256 colors for display by ordinary cards and will probably take that nasty error message away. Add this command to your USER COMMAND or COMMAND PARAMETERS in your front end as well, if you use one.
