Rotating screen in Mala for cocktail cabinet

[Purple Tophat]

Cocktail Cabinet help needed!

So I am trying to finish a project I started years ago. I had this PC all configured for the cocktail cab years ago and then had to change computers and lost some of my settings.

I had this set up to auto rotate 2 player vertical games. I had it set up to mirror horizontal games for 2 player.

Now I can’t seem to find any menu to set those two things. I am running Mala with Mames: .149, .151, and .161. I know those are old but this is what I have set up. Just need to know how to rotate verticals for 2 player and how mirror horizontals for 2 player, and I just can’t find any menu to let me do that. The only menu I can find I. Mame is for inputs. Any help?

[danny_galaga]

So just to be clear, you aren't talking about the dip switch settings for cocktail mode?

[Purple Tophat]

That is probably exactly what I’m talking about! It’s been years since I messed with it. That would be in each individual game then, right? Not any kind of global setting? Thanks you! I feel dumb. Hehe.

[millercentral]

For my cocktail, I used a tool called "CFG Magician" (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=88948.0 or https://emumovies.com/files/file/601-cfg-magician/) which autogenerated game .cfg files that has the proper "Cocktail Mode" dipswitch set for all games in MAME that support a cocktail mode. You can also set Free Play with this if you want.

For 2P games that don't support cocktail mode, MAME has a video mode which will duplicate and flip the screen so each player has their own correctly oriented view of the screen. Personally I don't use this in my machine, but if you like that you can set it by pressing Tab > Video > Cocktail Mode = On.

[Purple Tophat]

Thank you so much! That is exactly what I needed to know, except for some reason “tab” does nothing for me. I can’t seem to open any menu other than control input. Any ideas why tab wouldn’t open that menu? It doesn’t work in any of the three versions of Mame I’m running.