Vertical games rotated on my horizontal monitor

[leapinlew]

I seem to be having all kinds of weird issues. The latest issue is that I have a bartop with a horizontal monitor installed. When I play a game, like Galaga, it will be rotated 90 degrees to the left. When I play Galaga '88 it is rotated 90 degrees to the right. I figured my Mame.ini was screwy, so I deleted it and ran Mame -cc to generate a new one. I get the exact same issue! I'm using Mame 1.06 and I don't ever remember having this problem before.

Any chance it's my video card? I'm using a Dell 4600 with the onboard Intel 82865G graphics board.

Any suggestions? I figured a default Mame.ini would fix it for sure.

[BadMouth]

The ini files for the individual files in the ini folder override mame.ini
Try deleting one of those for a game that is oriented wrong.

[BadMouth]

Also, some games are listed as 90 and some are listed as 270 in mame.xml, so that's probably the way they originally were.

[leapinlew]

Thanks dude.

I installed a PCI video card and it's working just fine now. I suppose that means it's the video? I've had lots of problems with the onboard graphics of 5-7 years old PC's. The newer intel onboard work great.

[Gray_Area]

I never had problems with the stock settings in MAME32 .106 .  Note attached. [even with onboard video, of which my first PC was an Intel 845G] All games run at the desktop resolution, in horizontal orientation.

(I have always used MAME32, at least to set up stuff - though without any effects, etc, no set-up is needed.)

[leapinlew]

I never had problems with the stock settings in MAME32 .106 .  Note attached. [even with onboard video, of which my first PC was an Intel 845G] All games run at the desktop resolution, in horizontal orientation.

(I have always used MAME32, at least to set up stuff - though without any effects, etc, no set-up is needed.)

So games like Galaga work ok on your setup? Do you have Mala point to your Mame32 install and it works fine? I'll check that out if so, not adding in a video card would be sweet.

[leapinlew]

No Luck. I dug up an old thread from back in the day: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=28324.0

All I can suggest is you are using one of the newer Intel onboard graphics. The one I'm using is junk.

[DaOld Man]

Using a front end? I know Mala will orientate the game if you choose it to in options.

[Gray_Area]

@lew: 845 and 865 were the same generation - respectively, Dell 4500 (lower P4) and 4600 (upper P4). Should work the same. Do H and V games run horizontal from MAME itself? If so, then it might be a Mala setting like DaOld Man mentioned:

Using a front end? I know Mala will orientate the game if you choose it to in options.

[leapinlew]

Sorry guys -

I meant to reply yesterday and wrote up a response, but I guess I didn't post it. Good thought on using mame command line. I did, and it was still sideways. So I did the following:

- redownloaded mame .106 and tested it (through MALA and CLI) still sideways
- downloaded mame .147(latest release) and tested it. IT WORKED!

Why would that work? I downloaded a release in the middle, like .125 or something, and it worked also. So, not sure what happened in which version of Mame but .147 worked great. Of course, now I need a new set of Mame roms and instead of trying to figure out the CLRMAMEPRO mess, I'm getting a complete updated set.

I'm also wondering why a new video card also fixed the issue, but at this point I don't care so much as long as everything is working with onboard video I'm good. Thanks Gray_Area, DaOldMan, and Bad Mouth for making me keep at it. It would've been easy just to use a different video card and call it a day.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Have you tried the -norotate option?  There are a handful of rotating options explained here:  http://easyemu.mameworld.info/mameguide/mameguide-options.html

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