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Shun:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 07, 2012, 03:19:42 pm ---Maybe I am stupid, but if playing streetfighter in mirrored cocktail mode is really important to you then why don't you just get a faster used computer?

It literally took me a minute and a half to find a Pentium 4 2+ ghz computer on craigslist for $25.

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/sys/3050867507.html

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That seems like a good price. Is that for a laptop? Edit: Ah, looking at the link that price is for a desktop. I needed a laptop for my project idea.

I picked up this 1Ghz P3 laptop with hard drive and RAM for £10 on ebay recently and at the time it was the cheapest laptop I could find. Looking at ebay now, the cheapest working (hard drive + RAM) P4 is about £40-£50 + P&P ($60-$75). I know it doesn't seem like much but I didn't want to spend more than £15 as its just something to play around with at the moment. I'll probably get given an old 1.4Ghz Celeron laptop in the next 6 months as well so if I can get this configuration working on this laptop, it'll almost certainly work on that one.

I can't really finish my main cab off at the moment due to living in rented accommodation and having no access to a garage at the moment (hoping to buy a house this year  ;D). So in the meantime I'm planning my next project which will be two identical bartop cocktail builds. I'm hoping to sell one of them to one of my friends to cover some of the costs of the other one.

Part of my job is coding new projects in VB/VB.NET and a bespoke programming language, so I am now intrigued as to what is going on behind the scenes in MAME. I think the code for MAME PLUS is a no go as I can't seem to find source code for older versions of it, so I might have a play with the code posted earlier in the thread. If only there was some way to test any changes made without having to compile the whole damn thing everytime  :banghead:
Shun:
OK, if anyone is still interested, I have made some progress today.  ;D

I have managed to rotate and mirror the video output of Mame V0.69 as you can in newer versions of Mame (see pic).
I still need to make it stretch to the edges of the screen (whilst keeping the correct aspect ratio) and I also only want the mirror affect in non-vertical games but I don't think I am far away from achieving this.

Once I have managed to get the video stretched I'll post the changes that need to be made to achieve this.
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