Posted by $#@%$^#%%#%# on 21, 2000 at 10:09 PM:
In Reply to: List of games that support cocktail mode? posted by Rockin' G on 21, 2000 at 11:52 AM:
This is an EXCELLENT idea! It really shouldn't be too difficult I imagine either. I think this should be formally requested of the MAME team especially since Hanaho (Hotrod) is coming out with a coctail ArcadePC very soon (next couple of months I believe).
: (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!)