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| quarterback:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on October 08, 2006, 05:37:37 pm ---I've never heard of anybody doing this trick with a PC monitor, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. A CRT is a CRT is a CRT. --- End quote --- I hadn't heard of anybody doing it either, so I just wasn't sure if it was possible. Didn't know if the wires were different for some reason. --- Quote ---Open 'er up and have a look! --- End quote --- Gonna' do it! :) |
| quarterback:
--- Quote from: javeryh on October 08, 2006, 06:34:22 pm --- --- Quote from: quarterback on October 08, 2006, 02:59:18 pm ---Yeah, MaLa will spin/rotate but not do a backwards image, which is what I'm looking for. --- End quote --- In order to play the horizontal games I'll need to flipx and flipy. For what it's worth, on the MaLa site the first thing listed in the features is "Rotatable in any direction (0, 90, 180, 270) on the fly for horizontal and vertical screens." --- End quote --- I don't think you're understanding what -flipx and -flipy actually do. MaLa does have the ability to rotate in any direction, and -rol and -ror are ways to rotate mame itself. What -flipx and -flipy do is completely different and I'd be surprised if that's what you're using for your cocktail, unless there's a mirror involved. -flipx and flipy don't simply rotate the screen so people on opposite sides (or any of the 4 sides) of a cocktail can play. -flipx and flipy create mirror images. It would be as if you turn your cocktail monitor to face the floor and you can see through the back of the tube. All text becomes reversed, as if you were looking in a mirror. Instead of your game scrolling to the left, it now scrolls to your right. Pushing your joystick one way results in the person moving the opposite direction. Below are some pics of what -flipx does to your screen and should explain the reason it really only works in a mirror. Even if you're not familiar with Donkey Kong (yeah right! :)) the text is a sure giveaway why this isn't a solution to a 3-sided cocktail table. |
| javeryh:
I know... but if you flipx and flipy you are actually only making the picture go upsidedown. If you hold a piece of paper in your hand and turn it over once on the horizontal axis and then again on the vertical axis the paper will appear correctly (not mirrored) but will be upsidedown. The reason I am using both functions is because the monitor is upsidedown for the people playing on the third CP. Am I making things more complicated than they have to be? |
| quarterback:
--- Quote from: javeryh on October 08, 2006, 10:15:22 pm ---I know... but if you flipx and flipy you are actually only making the picture go upsidedown. --- End quote --- Ahhhh, I see how you're using them now. For vertical cocktail mode you're using -rol but for horizontal cocktail mode (which is actually 'upside down' relative to how your monitor is oriented) you're flipping it 180-degrees by using both -flipx and -flipy. See, my problem is that I actually NEED the text to be backwards so it will look right when viewed through a mirror. I need either -flipx OR -flipy which I can do to the games in Mame, but I can't do to the front end. I can rotate MaLa to face any of the 4 directions (which would make it useful for you) but I can't get it to actually be a backwards/mirror image. As soon as I can get to the back of one of my PC monitors, I'm going to check the re-wiring option. |
| danny_galaga:
ill keep an eye on this too. ive been trying to be low key, but anyone can guess that my new project is a space invaders upright (",). |
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