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quarterback:
Thanks for the reply, javeryh.

Yeah, MaLa will spin/rotate but not do a backwards image, which is what I'm looking for.   

I've just discovered MaLa and I'm using it for my cocktail cab, but the mame parameters of -flipx and -flipy will actually give you a reversed image (like you'd see in a mirror) while -rol and -ror will 'rotate' the image so it will go upside down, but not actually backwards.   

I can get MaLa to rotate (so either cocktail player could read it correctly) but as for having things completely backwards, well, that doesn't seem to be an option as far as I can tell.

Thanks
qb
spacies:
 
Have you thought about switching the wires on the chassis to get a reversed image?
That would be an easy fix if possible.
quarterback:

--- Quote from: spacies on October 08, 2006, 03:35:49 pm ---
Have you thought about switching the wires on the chassis to get a reversed image?
That would be an easy fix if possible.

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Yeah, the thread I linked in my first post references that technique with a true arcade monitor or a TV.   Does a PC monitor work in the same way?

Here's another thread with the same suggestion and the same question about PC monitors, but it never got a response.

Anybody done this with a computer monitor?
Kremmit:
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.  Open 'er up and have a look!
javeryh:

--- Quote from: quarterback on October 08, 2006, 02:59:18 pm ---Thanks for the reply, javeryh.

Yeah, MaLa will spin/rotate but not do a backwards image, which is what I'm looking for.   

I've just discovered MaLa and I'm using it for my cocktail cab, but the mame parameters of -flipx and -flipy will actually give you a reversed image (like you'd see in a mirror) while -rol and -ror will 'rotate' the image so it will go upside down, but not actually backwards.   

I can get MaLa to rotate (so either cocktail player could read it correctly) but as for having things completely backwards, well, that doesn't seem to be an option as far as I can tell.

Thanks
qb

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Interesting... I'm going to try installing MaLa on my cocktail cab sometime this week.  I've been planning on using MaLa all along but Gamelauncher was already on that computer.  In order to play the horizontal games I'll need to flipx and flipy.  I'll let you know how it goes.  In Gamelauncher I had the vertical games set to -rol but after getting flipx and flipy to work they were all facing the Player 2 vertical CP and I had to switch everything to -ror.  I'm not sure if that was because Gamelauncher was also getting flipped.  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."
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