Image flipping to solve space issue

[VinceVega]

Hey all,

I hit a major milestone today with my first cocktail cabinet - I got the thing standing. I was too excited to stop so I popped the monitor in it just to see how it fit, and..... I found little room for error. So little room in fact that the bottom of the monitor is going to get in the way of my coin door and coin buttons.

In this picture you can see what happened. I didn't want to decase the monitor so I have it sitting on its back on a shelf inside. To get the screen centered, it needs to be placed pretty close to the front.



Now, I discovered that if I rotate it 180 degrees, so it's upside-down relative to the front, there's plenty of room. But now I have to find a way to flip the screen image vertically. Can this be done with software? As you can see by the design of the cab, it also needs to be able to work in "vertical mode" with a 90 degree flip. What do you guys use to specify how you want the screen image oriented?

[garwil]

Depending on your graphics card you should be able to do this in the driver settings. I know you can do it on my crappy Intel onboard as well as with nVidia cards. Hope that helps!

[javeryh]

You can flip the image in MAME too using -flipx and -flipy or something.  This should not be a problem for you to fix!   

[leapinlew]

Flipping the image is a super easy fix. It can be done in MAME and in most frontends. I wouldn't let it stop you from building.

[eds1275]

Shoulda used an LCD  j/k. It's pretty awesome looking! I'm glad this won't set you back at all.

[Silas (son of Silas)]

If you used a linux distro like Ubuntu you could simply use the command

xrandr -o inverted

and the whole desktop would flip.

[VinceVega]

Thanks guys, that's awesome news! I had a feeling it could be done pretty simply, looks like I have a few options.