Posted by bill connolly on 21, 2000 at 12:23 PM:
In Reply to: List of games that support cocktail mode? posted by Rockin' G on 21, 2000 at 11:52 AM:
I don't have the file with me but with each version of MAME there is a file that lists all games and one of the columns is screen flipping yes/no. You could import this text file into a spreadsheet like excel then sort by that column to get all the yes games together.
Good Luck!
: For those of us with/working-on cocktail cabinets, is there a list of games that can be set to "cocktail" mode where the screen flips 180 degrees when it is Player 2's turn?
: Donkey Kong, Galaga, Ms. Pac-Man are examples of where this can be selected via the "Cabinet" Dip Switches setting.
: My almost-completed-look-for-pictures-soon cocktail cabinet has a 19" monitor mounted vertically with respect to the players, so the games need to be in "rotated" (not horizontal) orientation as well.
: (By the way, a REALLY cool addition to ArcadeOS would be a "cocktail mode" where it would automatically rotate the menu left or right depending on which side of controls on the cocktail cabinet was being used. Right now, you have to sit down at the "player 1 side" to select a game, etc. It would be cool if ArcadeOS looked for both player 1 AND player 2 activity, and switched the display orientation appropriately on-the-fly. A 10-second-idle-lockout could be used to prevent the screen from flipping too much if both controls were trying to be used at the same time. If I had Borland C++ 3.1, I would even attempt to implement this myself!)