MAME.098b command line. (how do i get all games vertical)

[BUCKETHEAD]

I know this may be an easy question?

I have never fooled around with the command line version of mame.

How do i get my games vertical?

I know in mame32, You can just choose clockwise in default game options.

How do you do this in command line version?

Thanks so much!

[Ummon]

Set is so in MameUI. Throw the vanilla mame files in the same folder. Run vanilla mame. Exit game. Go into your ini folder and copy the MameUI ini to the main folder and rename to 'mame'. Run vanilla mame.

[shock_]

You want two particular settings in your .ini file(s) to be set correctly.

One is "norotate" - in mame 098 this defaults to off, meaning that "vertical" games will be rotated to suit the orientation of your monitor so you can play them on a normal PC.  Turn that on, or add a "1" or something.

The second is "autoror" or "autorol".  Some vertical games were originally counter-clockwise-rotated from the "top" of the 4:3 tube, and others clockwise-rotated.  Each game might be different.  If you've got a monitor mounted vertically, you will want "autoror" or "autorol" to force it to display the right way up for your monitor.

You can put these settings in your mame.ini file, or perhaps quicker you can test them out on the command line like this:

mame.exe galaga -norotate -autoror

This is almost from memory, so you may need to experiment a little but this works very well when you get the right settings sorted out.

Check the documentation (mame/docs folder) and look for these options:
-[no]norotate
-[no]ror
-[no]rol
-[no]autoror
-[no]autorol
-[no]flipx
-[no]flipy

[BUCKETHEAD]

Thanks guys!

All this is much appreciated!