Cant find button for cocktail mode in Mame32

[Tim Folkenson]

Newbee here.....hope someone can help.

I installed my monitor in my cocktail Cab last night. I hauled the whole mess downstairs  to hook up to my home machine for a little late night Pac Man. I soon realized that there wasn't a check box (or I couldn't find it) to run in cocktail mode. My plan is to run a Dos front end with a P100 and 32 meg and between 50 and 100 games from the 1970's - 1980's.


Here's my questions-

What's the least hassle front end for my task?

Will a diferent front end other than Mame32 give me the option to run in cocktail mode or am I not finding the switch?

Are all games able to be played cocktail or do they need to be designed to run this way?

Dos 6.2 ? 7.x? 8.x?

Do I worry about memory with the old games or will they just run in the first 640k anyway?

[StephenH]

Cocktail mode is enabled in MAME itself inside each game.    Not all games have or support cocktail mode.

There are two ways of enabling cocktail mode, and the way varies from game to game.  

To enable cocktail mode, try the following:

1) Open the game you want to play in MAME, MAMEw, AdvanceMAME, MacMame, or MAME32.

2) Press Tab and choose "Dip Switches", and look for the "Cabinet Type" option and change it to "cocktail".

3) If Step 2 does NOT have a cabinet type option, press F2 and enter "Service Mode".   In the service mode menus, look for an option labeled any of the following (they all mean the same thing), and change it to the opposite setting:

Screen Flip
Cabinet
Cabinet Type
Cocktail Mode
Invert Screen
Switch Sides


Note: If you have not already done so, you'll want to set your default controls for both players to the buttons on your Cab.