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Title: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: grayxx on July 31, 2005, 09:02:30 am

im trying to flip the screen in mamewah on its side so i can use it in my cocktail cabinet, i can flip the games in mame setup ,but the main screen in mamewah is the wrong way, how do i do this, ive looked at the global settings in mamewah and there is a horizontal/ vertical setting but that just goes back to normal after a save??or am i doing this all wrong ,help guys,
all info much apreciated.

Title: Re: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: jcrouse on July 31, 2005, 02:26:39 pm

There are many threads on this here in the forums and in the MameWAH forum at Mameworld. Do a search for more information but basically if your running 800x600 you NEED to create a layout that is 600x800. Then you need to use some sort of utility tho rotate the Windows desktop. MameWAH doesn't have rotation built in. nVidia and ATI have a utility built into their driver. A third party app that does it is Pivot Pro.

Good Luck,
John

Title: Re: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: grayxx on July 31, 2005, 02:35:10 pm

hi
thanx for the reply, i have tried pivot pro, it rotates the desktop , but when i click on mamewah, the screen does not rotate when loaded even though my desktop is rotated?? and i dont know why??

Title: Re: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: jcrouse on July 31, 2005, 02:39:59 pm

You need to have a layout that is 480x640 or 600x800 as opposed to 640x480 or 800x600. That was a pretty quick reply. I take it you didn't do the search as suggested and read all the posts already available.  :police:

John

Title: Re: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: grayxx on July 31, 2005, 03:08:31 pm

yup ive done a lot of searches befor i posted this post,, im not the best at this sort of thing,and now im going to have to learn how to change the image size in some sort of software i think, what other frontends have the rotate system built in????? ::)

Title: Re: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: topdawgg on July 31, 2005, 11:20:34 pm

Making a new layout is really pretty simple.  Just open up mamewah layout designer and play around with it for awhile.

Title: Re: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: jcrouse on August 01, 2005, 01:10:57 am

There are a couple of Vertical layouts available at www.screenshotarchive.com if you want to try a couple.

John

Title: Re: how do i flip the screen in mamewah to use in my cocktail cabinet
Post by: grayxx on August 01, 2005, 03:31:50 pm

thank you for this much apreciated