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Setting up monitor in cab with a mirror. Options to mirror the image?
quarterback:
I'm working on a pc-monitor based mame setup that will be in one of those cabs where the player is actually looking at the screen via a mirror. Mame itself has the flipx and flipy options to mirror-image the games, but I'm concerned about my front end.
I'm using MaLa right now and, as far as I can tell, it doesn't have an option to flipx or flipy. I understand that ArcadeOS offers this option but, I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the way ArcadeOS looks.
I did some searching and found a thread here that tells me, with arcade monitors/tvs, you can switch a couple wires and get the entire display to be a reversed image. The plus of this wiring-switch is that it would mean everything (windows included) would look correct through the mirror. However, since I'm not planning on using this machine as a 'computer', I don't have a particular need for that.
Can this be done with arcade monitors as well?
Are there other solutions to this that people use?
Thanks
javeryh:
You can't use flipx and flipy in connection with MaLa? I am using both of those functions and Gamelauncher and it works fine - I just changes the settings in the mame config file... I don't really know what I'm talking about but I would at least give it a try...
quarterback:
--- Quote from: javeryh on October 08, 2006, 12:39:18 pm ---You can't use flipx and flipy in connection with MaLa? I am using both of those functions and Gamelauncher and it works fine - I just changes the settings in the mame config file... I don't really know what I'm talking about but I would at least give it a try...
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I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but the issue is getting MaLa itself to flip. Maybe it does this, and I just haven't been able to find it. Does Gamelauncher itself run in a backwards/flipped image?
Thanks
Grasshopper:
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question, but out of interest what type of cab are you converting? Or are you building from scratch?
I ask because I've always been a big fan of the older mirror-style cabs and I might convert one myself one day.
javeryh:
--- Quote from: quarterback on October 08, 2006, 12:53:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: javeryh on October 08, 2006, 12:39:18 pm ---You can't use flipx and flipy in connection with MaLa? I am using both of those functions and Gamelauncher and it works fine - I just changes the settings in the mame config file... I don't really know what I'm talking about but I would at least give it a try...
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I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but the issue is getting MaLa itself to flip. Maybe it does this, and I just haven't been able to find it. Does Gamelauncher itself run in a backwards/flipped image?
Thanks
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Gamelauncher doesn't flip while doing this (I don't think). I am running it in vertical mode and everything is facing the way it should. I needed to flipx and flipy in order to display the image upsidedown on my monitor for my cocktail cab. I was thinking maybe Mala would run normal and then when you launched Mame it would flip because the settings are Mame specific. Of course that's not what you want though - Again, I don't really know what I'm talking about and all of this stuff is very new to me and quite confusing - I was hoping it might spark an idea from someone else.
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