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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: Rupert H on February 06, 2019, 04:25:52 pm

Title: GM not saving rotation mame.ini settings.
Post by: Rupert H on February 06, 2019, 04:25:52 pm

I'm having an issue with GroovyMAME 2.06 not saving my preferences for vertical games in the mame.ini file. I'm running it in a cab where I can rotate the screen 90 degrees for vertical games, so I've chosen to display the raw orientation and my ini setting are as below. When I change set these options the games display as intended (horizonal games displaying as normal while vertical games are rotated to fill the screen).

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#
# CORE ROTATION OPTIONS
#
rotate                    0
ror                       0
rol                       0
autoror                   0
autorol                   0
flipx                     0
flipy                     0
However, as soon as I exit GroovyMAME and go back in to it, then view the settings from within GroovyMAME, the settings have reverted to the below.

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#
# CORE ROTATION OPTIONS
#
rotate                    1
ror                       0
rol                       0
autoror                   1
autorol                   0
flipx                     0
flipy                     0
This occurs whether the options are changed by manually editing the ini file or through GroovyMAME, being sure to click on "save configuration" before exiting. I've checked the ini file before re-opening GroovyMAME and it still shows my saved options, but the moment I open MAME again and view either the ini file or the rotation options in MAME, they both show rotate and autoror enabled. despite me never changing them.

Any ideas?

Title: Re: GM not saving rotation mame.ini settings.
Post by: buttersoft on February 06, 2019, 11:07:51 pm

There's also the monitor orientation option with the possible options horizontal, vertical, rotate_l and rotate_r? The last two only rotate for vertical games, IIRC. Or have those changed in MAME now?

Or maybe the VMM setup options for screen rotation.

Title: Re: GM not saving rotation mame.ini settings.
Post by: krick on February 07, 2019, 01:00:20 am

Does this apply?...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,158463.msg1666381.html#msg1666381 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,158463.msg1666381.html#msg1666381)

Title: Re: GM not saving rotation mame.ini settings.
Post by: Rupert H on February 07, 2019, 09:34:10 am

That thread was extremely helpful. I didn’t realise that GM had an “orientation “ option accessed through VM Maker. I’ve changed that to “rotate r” and now everything is displaying perfectly as intended. Thank you! MAME still seems to default it’s ini file to change to the second set of options that I posted, but it has no effect on the display so we’re all good.

Thanks again for the help. :-)