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Title: Auto rotation monitor FE options?
Post by: pixelObsession on November 19, 2015, 09:50:36 pm

I've been inching slowly toward automatic LCD rotation for my cab.

There's so many FE options now, some support auto rotation, some not so much.

Can those that have traveled a similar road shed some light on which FEs are geared for it and which are not worth the trouble to wrangle it together?

Thanks,

pO


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Title: Re: Auto rotation monitor FE options?
Post by: headkaze on November 20, 2015, 06:35:51 am

I will shamelessly plug my Rotate (http://headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=gameex&page=pluginrotate) plugin for GameEx.

Title: Re: Auto rotation monitor FE options?
Post by: BadMouth on November 20, 2015, 08:50:07 am

I have Mala set up with DaOldMan's rotation plugin.
I'm using the method from SGT's "multiple emus in one list" stickied thread to put all the arcade games in the MAME gamelist regardless of emulator.
The rotation data comes from mame.xml, including games I added which don't run on MAME.
The result is automatic rotation for everything.
Mala keeps track of which way the monitor is turned and displays the appropriate horizontal or vertical layout.
It all works exactly the way I want.

However Mala is not being developed to keep up with the changes in MAME, so it's a PITA to use with newer versions of MAME (v.162 or thereabouts IIRC).
If you're using a newer version of MAME and plan to update it in the future, you might as well start out learning how to use a front end like GameEX which is being actively updated.

Just a heads up: Have the monitor rotate counter-clockwise from horizontal to vertical.
The majority of arcade games work that way, including Sega NAOMI and Taito Type X.
The ones that are opposite are run in MAME where it is easily corrected.

Title: Re: Auto rotation monitor FE options?
Post by: pixelObsession on November 20, 2015, 07:21:09 pm

I've had my eyes on Mala for a while and even have it pretty much set up on a test box - GameEx never really appealed to me, and the further I get into my cab, the more I'm thinking I just want to run mame on it.  I originally was thinking of adding NES and SNES but I think leaving those out will give me an excuse to make a Nintendo cab next ;)

Attract Mode seems easy to get up and running and fresh but not sure yet how well it supports auto rotation.

Any others worth looking at?

pO


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Title: Re: Auto rotation monitor FE options?
Post by: pixelObsession on November 20, 2015, 07:23:39 pm

Oh! And thanks for the counter-clockwise tip - duly noted


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