MAME cocktail mode without flip or rotation

[adamtoth]

Hi there,

I'm building a three sided cocktail cabinet, with the long 3rd side having two sets of controls and buttons for 2 player side-by-side gaming. For 2 player games like Moon Patrol, BurgerTime, etc., when it's player 2's turn, I want the control to shift to the second joystick/buttons on that side, but I don't want the screen to flip. In the MAME options for the game, I've setup each controller and mapped it to the Player 1 and Player 2 controls, however when I play two player, only the Player 1 controls ever work. The only way I can get the Player 2 controls to work is to change the DIP settings to Cocktail, but then it flips the screen upside down as well. Is there a way to have it run in Cocktail mode but not flip the screen?

Using a xinmo 2 player board.

Thanks!

[PL1]

I'm building a three sided cocktail cabinet, with the long 3rd side having two sets of controls and buttons for 2 player side-by-side gaming. For 2 player games like Moon Patrol, BurgerTime, etc., when it's player 2's turn, I want the control to shift to the second joystick/buttons on that side, but I don't want the screen to flip. In the MAME options for the game, I've setup each controller and mapped it to the Player 1 and Player 2 controls, however when I play two player, only the Player 1 controls ever work. The only way I can get the Player 2 controls to work is to change the DIP settings to Cocktail, but then it flips the screen upside down as well. Is there a way to have it run in Cocktail mode but not flip the screen?

For alternating-play horizontal monitor games like Moon Patrol and Burgertime, there are several ways to approach this:

1. Have the players take turns using P1 controls like the original upright cab did.

2. Have MAME respond to both P1 and P2 controls at the same time.

Check out this post for details on how to do that.


Scott