Way to automate creation of game-specific .ini files?

[rerstad]

I started to create game-specific .ini files for my three-panel cocktail cab to rotate games to display appropriately.

[jcrouse]

See my reply over at Mameworld.

John

[Spartan]

See my reply over at Mameworld.

John

Link plz?  I cannot seem to find it.

[rerstad]

Here's the link.

[Spartan]

hmmm -- once upon a time I wrote a program to manually convert the .c driver files so that the cocktail mode is the default setting.  Is this any different?

[rerstad]

I'd like to see that program.  Manually setting those dip sticks gets a bit boring and I'm sure I've missed some.  No, what I did with this is make an ini for each horizontal rom that tells mame to rotate the game so it plays horizontally and I can use the side control panel on my cocktail.  I suppose it could go the other way as well and you could have a horizontal FE and vertical games launch vertically.  You can make other rom-specific changes to the inis with this app as well.  Worked great.

[Spartan]

Here we go:

http://www.municade.com/municade/software/

Note -- I wrote this guy back when mame was at 0.58.  It still works today, but once the source code is changed, mame will no longer compile.  The problem is that in MAME, I insert comments where the code was changed, and the compiler gets mad b/c 1) sometimes the code is inside of a macro (compiler does not like comments in a macro) and 2) sometimes the code is already commented out.  In C/C++ comments inside of comments are generally a no-no.

So, have a look and good luck!

I about a year ago, I lost the source code in a hd crash, so I can't change the behavior of the proggy anymore.

[Popcorrin]

If you want mame to automatically rotate a game if it is a vertical game and to not rotate if it is a horizontal game all you have to do is open p your mame.ini and set autorol or autoror(depending on which way your monitor is mounted) from zero to 1.

[Spartan]

If you want mame to automatically rotate a game if it is a vertical game and to not rotate if it is a horizontal game all you have to do is open p your mame.ini and set autorol or autoror(depending on which way your monitor is mounted) from zero to 1.

you are talking about rol/ror.  We are talking about standup vs. cocktail mode (auto flipping from one player to another)

[Popcorrin]

If you want mame to automatically rotate a game if it is a vertical game and to not rotate if it is a horizontal game all you have to do is open p your mame.ini and set autorol or autoror(depending on which way your monitor is mounted) from zero to 1.

you are talking about rol/ror.