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Title: Can I -ror a set of games or do I have to do each one individually?
Post by: javeryh on May 02, 2009, 10:27:00 pm

I'm trying to config a 3 sided cocktail - I have some gamelists made in MaLa for vertical games that I want rotated 90 degrees - is there a simple way to do this?  I don't want to rotate the horizontal games, obviously.  Thanks!

Title: Re: Can I -ror a set of games or do I have to do each one individually?
Post by: headkaze on May 03, 2009, 12:33:31 am

You might want to ask on the MaLa forums (link at the top of the page). I think MaLa can send Mame command line options based on control type so you can probably do it within MaLa.

Also I'm not sure but Cfg Magician (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=88948.0) might be able to do what you want. It allows you to edit Mame cfg files in bulk.

Title: Re: Can I -ror a set of games or do I have to do each one individually?
Post by: Tafoid on May 03, 2009, 09:38:21 am

I made a utility last year which would add or reconfigure your CFG files if the game was a vertical game, also adjusting or creating an .INI for that game to make sure it displays on the main screen, or a second screen..

http://mameload.mameworld.info/Create Orient CFG+INI- version 2.zip (http://mameload.mameworld.info/Create Orient CFG+INI- version 2.zip)

You need a MAME.EXE in the same folder to get the xml information (or a capture of the XML output from your version called MAMEXML.TXT.  It will then look for the CFG folder and adjust the file accordingly for the vertical games - depending on which version you choose, will change the .INI to port all vertical games to a different monitor instead.

As my readme document states - backup your CFG (and INI) folders if you are all wary of what this program might do.  It worked for me last time I checked it.

Good luck!