Cocktail Cab Games

[rygars#1#fan]

Does anybody know if there is a setting in dipswitches or gameex which will allow all mame games that i intend to have on my cocktail cab flip the screen to player 2 side or do you have to individually change each games dipswith to cocktail mode.Thanks.

[shbon]

Does anybody know if there is a setting in dipswitches or gameex which will allow all mame games that i intend to have on my cocktail cab flip the screen to player 2 side or do you have to individually change each games dipswith to cocktail mode.Thanks.

Until I stand corrected...

I searched a while ago for this answer. I don't think there exists the global flag you're after. My conclusion was "set manually per game". There's probably only a handful you'll ever play anyway...

The longer answer (you may not be interested...):

I had a look at the <romname>.cfg files in MAME\cfg. A dipswitch change is recorded in this file but isn't standard between files as it relates to the dipswitch index, value and mask value. These are not standard across games.

I also had a look at the source:

Unfortunately, dipswitch information is very pertinent and unique to particular hardware and games. As such, in MAME, dipswitch defaults are hardcoded in the multitude of individual game source files and aren't recorded in a standard way. As such, it would appear to be hard work finding a way to programmatically change the particular dipswitch representing 'cocktail-mode' from 'upright' to 'cocktail' across applicable games.

It might be possible to 'override' the dipswitch somewhere during MAME's drawing sequence, but again, this would be involved to say the least!

Shaun

[Brian Hoffman]

This isnt easy most cocktail games natively support screen flipping but mame has to emulate it. I have played many cocktail game where I recieve a message stating that screen flipping in cocktail mode not supported.

I know my nvida card lets me rotate my desktop through software maybe a hotkey or macro can be created to flip the screen at the press of a button like the 2nd player start or somthin.

[rygars#1#fan]

shbon,

Thanks for your reply.I expected that it would be something like your answer but was remotely hopeing that it was possible or somebody cluelly had worked out a way to change all the dipswitches at once.

Anyway i will resort back to changing them one by one as i play each one ,then eventually they will all be done.

Thankyou for all your help thus far.