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Author Topic: Mirrored front end for Space Invaders cabinet???  (Read 2350 times)

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Mirrored front end for Space Invaders cabinet???
« on: November 03, 2010, 09:52:08 am »
Does anybody know if there is a front-end that will do flip + mirror?

I can do it with MAME and the games play fine, but I have tried it with MALA and I can only get to flip up/down when in vertical orientation.

I have a Space Invaders cabinet that I put a stock PC monitor in (vertical orientation), no decasing.  I could just swap the yoke wires to get the correct orientation on the mirror, but that would mean having to remove the montior, decase, swap, then re-case, and re-install.

I have it nice and secure in there but it is a pain to handle so I wanted to find a software solution for the front-end.

I love MALA but it can only do switch horiz/vert and flip upside down.  I really need to also flip the side to side.
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Re: Mirrored front end for Space Invaders cabinet???
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 12:18:45 pm »
how about flip horizontal/vertical then rotate 180 degrees?
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Re: Mirrored front end for Space Invaders cabinet???
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 01:32:11 pm »
Maximus Arcade supports this (# 7 in the diagram):


Read more here:
http://www.maximusarcade.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=41&Itemid=55#skins

IIRC the creator of Maximus Arcade had a Space Invaders cabinet:


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Re: Mirrored front end for Space Invaders cabinet???
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2010, 09:49:07 pm »
Thanks for the replies guys.

I tried the Maximus Arcade but kept getting the "index out of range script error" message.

I just went ahead and de-cased the monitor, flipped the yoke connector, and put it back together. Works great now.

I think I will try the Maximus Arcade front-end later on my personal MAME cabinet when I have more time to tweak it.
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