Posted by Brian on October 07, 1999 at 09:21:29:
In Reply to: Mirror - Mounted - Monitor posted by Shawn P. Maloy on October 07, 1999 at 01:30:20:
- I was actually planning on doing this with my cabinet when I gt around to building it. I saw a shooting game, (can't remember what it was though), use this kind of set up in an arcade. I had the exact thought you did about having a rotating monitor flat instead of normal so it would be easier to rotate and also easier on the monitor. I also thought it would be a cool thing to do since there aren't too many out there like that.
You did bring up a really good point about the problem of image reversal ouside of mame. I didn't even think about that! Maybe you can alter windows some how or make a macro that will automatically start up in the front end that is running mame. That would make it a little easier anyway. There must be a way to do that.
Well like I said, I'm a ways away from building my cabinet so if you do acomplish this I'd be very interested to see how you did it so I could do it on mine eventually. I'd also be a little gealous since I was hoping to be the first to do this, but that's ok. :) Let me know what happens! Good Luck!!
Game On!! Brian
: I have not heard this topic discussed yet so here it goes.....
: I am in the process of building a emulator cabinet and was planning on using a rotating monitor mount. While I was testing different games for horizontal and vertical modes (rotating the monitor on my regular PC by hand), I noticed that MAME has the ability to display a "mirror image" by flipping the image on either the X or Y axis.
: My idea is to mount the monitor pointed straight up and use a mirror for viewing it. I seem to remember some arcade game cabinets designed in this way.
: This would make the rotation setup very easy because the weight of the display would not be "hanging". It would be "resting".
: Using a mirror to display the image might allow me to magnify the image or make it seem closer (convex / concave mirrors).
: If I only reflect the image once, everything outside of MAME is a mirror image and nearly impossible to read. I would imagine a utility exists to flip the display or even a generic video driver that has this feature.
: I hope this generates some discussion.
: Shawn P. Maloy