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Existence of cocktail head to head vertical two player game?
griffindodd:
Pong?
chopperthedog:
--- Quote from: griffindodd on March 21, 2013, 06:46:37 pm ---Pong?
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He's got an SI ptII cocktail with a 4way and 1 button per side.
good day.
cmoses:
--- Quote from: tobiasbp on March 21, 2013, 12:37:47 pm ---Not if the monitor is vertical (as far as I understand) as it is on my cabinet.
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When you say vertical I assume you mean the normal configuration a monitor would be on a cocktail cabinet by Midway. Vertical for a player sitting at each end of the cocktail cabinet.
If this is the case the yes MAME's "cocktail mode" would be great for games that are 2 player at the same time. MAME will do (2) screens both in horizontal position, one for each player. They each see a screen facing their side of the table. This works great for games like Joust, Mario Bros, NBA Jam, etc. each player sees their own horizontal screen that is half of the total monitor.
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tobiasbp:
--- Quote from: cmoses on March 22, 2013, 01:04:17 am ---When you say vertical I assume you mean the normal configuration a monitor would be on a cocktail cabinet by Midway. Vertical for a player sitting at each end of the cocktail cabinet.
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I got it (at last). I will try the cocktail mode on horisontal games. I'm wondering how it will look as it will run on the original 14" CRT. Cutting the vertical resolution "in half" might not look so good. The machine is not running yet (I need an ATI graphics card for the PC running the thing). Could someone try this on a 15kHz monitor?
Thank you for your suggestion of the cocktail mode in MAME.
HanoiBoi:
OP, you mentioned a 4-way joystick, and later shared that the machine isnt working yet....
I believe Space Invaders originally used a 2-way joystick
Just mentioning this in case it was an oversight.
Maybe you installed or plan to install a 4-way?
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