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Title: Yoke wires
Post by: vader on March 04, 2005, 02:54:44 pm

building a cocktail cabinet and when monitor is mounted it will not be mounted with the bottom facing the player but away.  Am I correct in assuming if this is the case I can just reverse the yoke wires ( horizontal ) and the head to head side ( reverse verticle wires )......or can this all be done in software.....don't really want to chang every individual game...

Thanks

tim

Title: Re: Yoke wires
Post by: MonitorGuru on March 04, 2005, 03:40:42 pm

I'm a bit confused, but I *think* you're asking if you can rotate a monitor image 180 degrees simply by swaping the two wires inside each pair of yoke windings.  If so.. the answer is a definitive YES.

If you mean you want to actively "rotate" the monitor as people are playing via a switch... in theory--yes, in practice: costly and succeptable to damage the monitor if turned while it's on.

But either way, all mame builds support rotating the image 180 degrees for each game as needed, plus if you're using Windows, most ATI and nVidia drivers allow you to rotate windows 90/180/270 degrees as well.

Be aware that in practice, I've found that rotating a monitor 180 by swapping yellow for green and red for blue on the yoke typically results in a slightly different colored/converged picture, because you may not be hitting the phosphor at the exact same spots as it did the other way. Usually this can be fixed by adjusting convergence magnets.. easy but time consuming.  Some monitors need no adjustments, some just seem "pale" when flipped in my experience.

Title: Re: Yoke wires
Post by: chuckaroo2000 on March 15, 2005, 11:30:47 pm

Hello,

  I too have this problem.  I have not reversed the yoke wires but was thinking about it.  I am curious if you went ahead and did that and how did it work?  I found a program called Pivot Pro that works pretty good.  It rotates windows  in either of the 4 directions and if you disable the

Title: Re: Yoke wires
Post by: vader on March 15, 2005, 11:51:47 pm

I have the pivotpro software too, came with my LCD

Title: Re: Yoke wires
Post by: vader on March 16, 2005, 12:01:24 am

I think I answered my own question......just use mame autoroll and I should be fine since this is strictly for mame...

Tim

Frank.....Pivotpro should work fine for you.....