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quarterback:
I'm working on a pc-monitor based mame setup that will be in one of those cabs where the player is actually looking at the screen via a mirror.    Mame itself has the flipx and flipy options to mirror-image the games, but I'm concerned about my front end.

I'm using MaLa right now and, as far as I can tell, it doesn't have an option to flipx or flipy.     I understand that ArcadeOS offers this option but, I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the way ArcadeOS looks.

I did some searching and found a thread here that tells me, with arcade monitors/tvs, you can switch a couple wires and get the entire display to be a reversed image.  The plus of this wiring-switch is that it would mean everything (windows included) would look correct through the mirror.  However, since I'm not planning on using this machine as a 'computer', I don't have a particular need for that.

Can this be done with arcade monitors as well?

Are there other solutions to this that people use?
Thanks
javeryh:
You can't use flipx and flipy in connection with MaLa?  I am using both of those functions and Gamelauncher and it works fine - I just changes the settings in the mame config file...  I don't really know what I'm talking about but I would at least give it a try...
quarterback:

--- Quote from: javeryh on October 08, 2006, 12:39:18 pm ---You can't use flipx and flipy in connection with MaLa?  I am using both of those functions and Gamelauncher and it works fine - I just changes the settings in the mame config file...  I don't really know what I'm talking about but I would at least give it a try...

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I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but the issue is getting MaLa itself to flip.  Maybe it does this, and I just haven't been able to find it.    Does Gamelauncher itself run in a backwards/flipped image?

Thanks
Grasshopper:
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question, but out of interest what type of cab are you converting? Or are you building from scratch?

I ask because I've always been a big fan of the older mirror-style cabs and I might convert one myself one day.
javeryh:

--- Quote from: quarterback on October 08, 2006, 12:53:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: javeryh on October 08, 2006, 12:39:18 pm ---You can't use flipx and flipy in connection with MaLa?  I am using both of those functions and Gamelauncher and it works fine - I just changes the settings in the mame config file...  I don't really know what I'm talking about but I would at least give it a try...

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I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but the issue is getting MaLa itself to flip.  Maybe it does this, and I just haven't been able to find it.    Does Gamelauncher itself run in a backwards/flipped image?

Thanks

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Gamelauncher doesn't flip while doing this (I don't think).  I am running it in vertical mode and everything is facing the way it should.  I needed to flipx and flipy in order to display the image upsidedown on my monitor for my cocktail cab.  I was thinking maybe Mala would run normal and then when you launched Mame it would flip because the settings are Mame specific.  Of course that's not what you want though - Again, I don't really know what I'm talking about and all of this stuff is very new to me and quite confusing - I was hoping it might spark an idea from someone else.
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