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Setting up monitor in cab with a mirror. Options to mirror the image?
krick:
Just for reference in case anyone cares...
There's 8 different possibilities for monitors in an arcade machine (assuming at most 1 mirror)...
rotate 0
rotate 90
rotate 180
rotate 270
rotate 0 + flip x
rotate 90 + flip x
rotate 180 + flip x
rotate 270 + flip x
To flip the x axis, you use a mirror.
The driver source in MAME can be confusing because they use FLIP_X, FLIP_Y, SWAP_XY in addition to all the rotations, but really, they all boil down to the the 8 possibilites above.
I'd like to see the drivers changed to use a rotation plus an optional "mirror" because it's more clear how the original cabinet was set up.
Popcorrin:
Switching the yoke wires on a monitor isn't too difficult, just make sure you follow the safety guidlines for working with monitors.
I have switched the yoke wires on both a pc and arcade monitor and it's pretty much the same on either one.
javeryh:
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--- 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.
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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.
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Ahhh... I finally understand what you are trying to do as well... ;D Maybe there is a setting in Windows or something that allows for a mirrored image? This way you wouldn't have to mess around with configurations in mame or mala...
Good luck! On a semi-related note - how cool is this? http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/060927.html. Imagine the possibilities - one cabinet to play different games at the same time! No more fighting with the wife!
Stingray:
--- Quote from: Popcorrin on October 09, 2006, 09:59:23 am ---Switching the yoke wires on a monitor isn't too difficult, just make sure you follow the safety guidlines for working with monitors.
I have switched the yoke wires on both a pc and arcade monitor and it's pretty much the same on either one.
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This is interesting. I didn't know that, but I may incorporate it into a project I'm planning.
-S