Vertical cab monitor issue

[mikehaggar]

Hi all, got a vertical cab the other day but the guy must have put the monitor in upside down as when I set mame to vertical in the ini file its upside down. What setting do I change in the uni to flip it the right way round? Thanks.

[abispac]

Hi all, got a vertical cab the other day but the guy must have put the monitor in upside down as when I set mame to vertical in the ini file its upside down. What setting do I change in the uni to flip it the right way round? Thanks.

on mame.ini its either

rotate left   1

or

rotate right  1

[buttersoft]

[T]he guy must have put the monitor in upside down...

There kinda isn't such a thing as upside down when it comes to arcade tubes. You flip them to hide screen burn, and then flip the yoke connectors on the PCB or use the dip switches there.

[Calamity]

Depending on what side the CRT is mounted, either -autoror or -autorol in mame.ini will do the trick.

[mikehaggar]

Thanks for help guys. Putting a - before the autorols didnt do anything and adding a left or right to rotate 1 didnt do anything either. Any other suggestions?

[makya]

Hi you should trying replacing one of those 0 with a 1.

rotate                   0
ror                       0
rol                       0
autoror                0
autorol                0

good luck !

[mikehaggar]

Yeah tried changing all the rotate options there and nothing happened.

[Zebidee]

cut-and-paste. Modify as you wish:

#
# CORE ROTATION OPTIONS
#
rotate                    1
ror                       1
rol                       0
autoror                   0
autorol                   0
flipx                     0
flipy                     0

[mikehaggar]

Yea Ive tried rotate 1 and the ones below with various 1s but nothing happens. Stays just upside down vertical

[Zebidee]

Three ifs:

If you are changing those settings but nothing happening, then maybe you are editing the wrong mame.ini

If all else fails: start GM into the default GUI. you can navigate to "Configure Options/Advanced Options" and change rotation there. Don't forget to "Save Configuration" before exiting out.

If curious, you can then check your mame.ini "CORE ROTATION OPTIONS" and see what was changed.

[buttersoft]

If curious, you can then check your mame.ini "CORE ROTATION OPTIONS" and see what was changed.

Ah yes, that's a good one to check. In the same dir as the mame executable, first i would rename the ini folder so nothing is interfering, then make the changes to the mame.ini. Then try them,  and if they fail, see if the changes are still saved, or have reverted.

[Zebidee]

Butters raises a good point. If there are any other .ini files being loaded, like a "vertical.ini" in your INI folder, they will override the mame.ini settings.

[mikehaggar]

Yea it was the vertical written in the core options for orientation, it needed to be rotate_l then it worked. Thanks for your help all!

# CORE SWITCHRES OPTIONS
#
modeline_generation       1
monitor                   generic_15
orientation               rotate_l