HELP . rotate one game only in mame .

[Retroman839]

AS TITLE SAYS
i have all my vert games in the corret rotation except one game

its 180 degrees wrong. upsidedown!

im using an old mame and bombjack dont have a screen flip in the tab in game menu/dips.

no .ini files either in this old ver of mame its a .cfg file

and my options are

norotate = no
rol =no
ror = no

rol and ror rotate left or right only rotate 90 degrees from hori to vert so they cant help me.
i havr tried and i get sideways bombjack!

i have read about single game.cfg file but im not to sure how i would get 180 degrees of rotation ?
any help much appretiated.

i cant use a global setting as all my other roms are oriantated fine .
i need to just do a single game .cfg


bombjack.cfg/ norotate=yes

something like above ?


if anyone has done sigle game .ini or .cfg pls let me know thx

just read flip x and flip y so hopefully this works in arcadeos

 

[eliotcole]

I highlighted your title, and the fourth suggestion on startpage gave this:

Well, you can rotate stuff in the layout. Put the stuff in a group rather than a view, then instantiate the group in the view with the orientation rotated.

Creating the group, instantiating and rotating it worked like a charm! Thank you so much for all your help!

Does any of that help?

The URL (broken on purpose, as I don't know how / what it is, and don't wish to just send folks to it) is:

https:// forums. bannister. org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=120691
Remove the spaces​

 

[Retroman839]

not sure what thats about

 

[tronads]

what version is it....mame has has had the facility to do individual game ini's for a fair while now.

 

[Retroman839]

what version is it....mame has has had the facility to do individual game ini's for a fair while now.

Ver 0.25 👍
2002/2003

I realise now flip x and flip y is
Same as rotate 180.

Só I need to check if flip x & y options is working in arcadeos front end or I need to try mame.cfg to flip

 

[Fantazia2]

Plug in a keyboard, with that game loaded press tab and use the mame menus to rotate the screen, it should save the config for just that game.

Either that or you need to edit the config file for that game in the mame config folder and change the rotate function.

 

[Retroman839]

Hopefully sort it this evening
…
X & y flip is off in mame global
Settings ,

Só I think I’m on it !

Turn c & y flip from no to yes

And then I should be able to just
Flip the one game in game config settings hopefully

Or will need to do like you say make a single game config file

 

[Fantazia2]

Hopefully sort it this evening
…
X & y flip is off in mame global
Settings ,

Só I think I’m on it !

Turn c & y flip from no to yes

And then I should be able to just
Flip the one game in game config settings hopefully

Or will need to do like you say make a single game config file

Easiest option is to use a keyboard and it will write to the config itself.

Dont change anything in the main mame.ini or cfg file.

If the game has already been run I think there will already be a cfg file for it in the cfg folder and the options to flip screen will need manually adding so you would need to know what they are.

 

[Retroman839]

Yeh I have keyboard in and been in the config menu

It seems only flip x and flip y

Would give me the 180 degree rotation I need .

 

[Retroman839]

I just set rol left rol right to yes
In the mame.cfg folder and
Bombjack is now sideways
🤣..

 

[Fantazia2]

I just set rol left rol right to yes
In the mame.cfg folder and
Bombjack is now sideways
🤣..

Dont have a bombjack rom handy but just loaded mame and played truxton2, pressed tab went to video options and there was a rotate option there to turn screen around 90 degrees at a time, set to 180 so it was upside down.

This is what the cfg file looked like after.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- This file is autogenerated; comments and unknown tags will be stripped -->
<mameconfig version="10">
<system name="truxton2">
<video>
<target index="0" rotate="180" />
</video>
<counters>
<coins index="0" number="4" />
</counters>
</system>
</mameconfig>

 

[Fantazia2]

The above is from an older version of mame though.

flip x and flip y Im pretty sure is to mirror the image.

 

[Fantazia2]

Just tried with v0.25 and that was the same except after going into video options I had to select Screen #0 then rotate option was there. Rotated 180degrees and now its upside down on my screen.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- This file is autogenerated; comments and unknown tags will be stripped -->
<mameconfig version="10">
<system name="bombjack">
<video>
<target index="0" rotate="180" />
</video>
</system>
</mameconfig>

 

[Retroman839]

Just tried with v0.25 and that was the same except after going into video options I had to select Screen #0 then rotate option was there. Rotated 180degrees and now its upside down on my screen.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- This file is autogenerated; comments and unknown tags will be stripped -->
<mameconfig version="10">
<system name="bombjack">
<video>
<target index="0" rotate="180" />
</video>
</system>
</mameconfig>

I didn’t know you could just edit out the 90 and make it 180 ?

 

[Retroman839]

Dont have a bombjack rom handy but just loaded mame and played truxton2, pressed tab went to video options and there was a rotate option there to turn screen around 90 degrees at a time, set to 180 so it was upside down.

This is what the cfg file looked like after.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- This file is autogenerated; comments and unknown tags will be stripped -->
<mameconfig version="10">
<system name="truxton2">
<video>
<target index="0" rotate="180" />
</video>
<counters>
<coins index="0" number="4" />
</counters>
</system>
</mameconfig>

Yes most config say
Rotate 90 # 0 Or 1

But this says
Rol = no. ( still 90 degrees )
Ror = no ( still 90 degrees )


I think the flip x flip y is basically for 180 turning

 

[Retroman839]

All sorted now super chuffed
Now time to play some.
Thnx for help on this..

Screen flip dips is easy



Any way to max size on screen ?

 

[big10p]

Probably have to use the monitor pots for that.

 

[eliotcole]

Yeah ... that's weird though ... right?
Surely it should fill the screen.

 

[Retroman839]

Probably have to use the monitor pots for that.

Pots maxed out ..
It’s 15 kHz monitor but an old cga computer monitor ..

 

[Retroman839]

Yeah ... that's weird though ... right?
Surely it should fill the screen.

Yeh I’m not sure only because I don’t know this monitor
That’s my lot