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Title: Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?
Post by: soslo on October 10, 2003, 11:25:07 am: Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?

I'm considering making another cab - this one a cocktail that just plays cocktail games.
Title: Re:Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?
Post by: papaschtroumpf on October 10, 2003, 03:08:48 pm: I though screen flipping was mostly what makes a cocktail game?
Title: Re:Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 10, 2003, 04:07:20 pm: Screen flipping and cocktails are totally unrelated. Cocktails flip the screen automatically, no need to alter the screen flipping switch. The screen flip swtich is intended for those poor operators that accidentally put their monitor in upside down. There is no other use for it.

And for the record there is no such list.
Title: Re:Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?
Post by: PaulT on October 11, 2003, 02:53:25 pm: this link may help for vertical monitors
http://mame.joymonkey.com/ (http://mame.joymonkey.com/)
Title: Re:Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?
Post by: paigeoliver on October 12, 2003, 10:41:09 pm: Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 10, 2003, 04:07:20 pm
Screen flipping and cocktails are totally unrelated. Cocktails flip the screen automatically, no need to alter the screen flipping switch. The screen flip swtich is intended for those poor operators that accidentally put their monitor in upside down. There is no other use for it.

And for the record there is no such list.

Well, to be more precise, gameboards (or emulated games) that support cocktail mode flip the screen automatically if the cocktail dip (or the cocktail option in the setup) is activated.

Also, the screen flip switch is actually not because people put their monitors in upside down, it is because not all game manufacturers could agree on which way was "Up" on a vertical monitor.
Title: Re:Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?
Post by: u_rebelscum on October 12, 2003, 11:22:23 pm: Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 10, 2003, 03:08:48 pm
I though screen flipping was mostly what makes a cocktail game?

That's true if the game is an alternating player game. Simultaneous player games such as warlords, demolition derby, and atari football don't flip, but are cocktail games.

Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 10, 2003, 04:07:20 pm
Screen flipping and cocktails are totally unrelated. Cocktails flip the screen automatically, no need to alter the screen flipping switch. The screen flip swtich is intended for those poor operators that accidentally put their monitor in upside down. There is no other use for it.

I think he really is asking which drivers flip the screen automatically.
Some of the games that should flip automatically aren't emulated correctly in the driver, so the driver gets the "GAME_NO_COCKTAIL" flag.

Quote from: soslo on October 10, 2003, 11:25:07 am
Is there a list of cocktail games that support screen flipping?

I'm considering making another cab - this one a cocktail that just plays cocktail games.

A more clear question probably could have been: "What cocktail games are fully emulated in mame?"

Still, there isn't a simple list of this.

OTOH, there are 319 games with the "cocktail (screen flip) not working" flag, as of 0.74u2. 25 of which are not working. Aprox 180 of those working are not clones. [shrug] Not what you asked, but many, if not most, classic games had a cocktail mode or version.