Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: delta88 on April 24, 2005, 02:13:45 pm

Title: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: delta88 on April 24, 2005, 02:13:45 pm

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cab/index.html

they most likely use advance mame/menu on there cab so how did they rotate it for there vertical orientaion.

anyone know?

thx

Title: Re: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: NeeBick on April 24, 2005, 08:35:51 pm

Quote from: delta88 on April 24, 2005, 02:13:45 pm

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cab/index.html

they most likely use advance mame/menu on there cab so how did they rotate it for there vertical orientaion.

anyone know?

thx

Most graphic card drivers have a rotate function built in.  It doesn't require a special frontend.  The desktop becomes vertical (i.e. 640x480 -> 480x640)

Here is nvidia's version (I'm almost certain ati has the same thing):
http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_nvrotate.html

Title: Re: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: daywane on April 24, 2005, 09:04:11 pm

been my experience that the card will rotate the game but not FE

Title: Re: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: NeeBick on April 24, 2005, 10:56:24 pm

Quote from: daywane on April 24, 2005, 09:04:11 pm

been my experience that the card will rotate the game but not FE

Most frontends do not poll the resolution correctly instead they force what is in the config file .  The key is the config file.  I just played mamewah in 800x1280 and mame on my laptop.

Title: Re: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: Thenasty on April 25, 2005, 08:20:45 am

I answered your question already in the Advmame forum. Did you check it yet ?

Title: Re: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: delta88 on April 25, 2005, 10:01:22 am

Yeah I caught that. HTanks.. I was looking at that setting and it didn't danw on me.. I was only thinking mirrir? flip? like in a operation Wolf game or something.. race driven even ;)

I know that i was not the video card doing based on when the cab was built and that it was most likely running in dis,linux..maybe windoze.

Title: Re: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: telengard on April 27, 2005, 11:42:07 am

Quote from: delta88 on April 24, 2005, 02:13:45 pm

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cab/index.html

they most likely use advance mame/menu on there cab so how did they rotate it for there vertical orientaion.

anyone know?

thx

Very easily.  I used advancemenu and one of the nice features it has is that you can rotate it ( I have a rotating monitor ).  Even better it passes along the information to the emulator so that it too will rotate accordingly.  I used to use advancemame itself also but my new computer doesn't work well with it so I'm using std mame and advmenu.

This is the line that does that:

emulator "mamepp" mame "mamepp.exe" "%o[,-ror,-flipx,-rol] %o[,,-flipy,]"

Title: Re: how did the creator of this Fe do this?
Post by: delta88 on April 27, 2005, 11:47:04 am

cool , so telling mame to -ror will rotate the menu? another board member had it down for flip and mirror commands.


thx-d88