Launchbox running with Windows 90 degree rotation

[stevep]

Will  Launchbox run if Windows is rotated 90 degrees? The reason I'm asking is I'm curious how Launchbox would treat vertical games. Would it portray the game in full screen? I'm currently using ArcadeOS with win98 in an old DK cabinet. Windows is rotated 90 degrees and ArcadeOS displays the vertical games in their original format. If not ...does anyone know if Win7 supports ArcadeOS.

[dukeemu]

I'll follow this thread myself too. I'm thinking about a TV with a 90 degrees swiveling and so, I'm very interested.

[DOS76]

LB will run on a portrait monitor. How the game looks once you launch it will be determined by your emulator say you launch a landscape game on the monitor if it has enforce aspect on it will place it in a small box if you have that off it will scrunch it all up and try to fit it onscreen but that is all emulator specific.

 

[stevep]

After doing a little research it seems that you can configure MAME to rotate the vertical games in their proper format using command lines. There is however another version of MAME specifically designed for Windows....MAMEUI. This operates like your typical Windows program. It also acts like a front end. This probably wouldn't be practical when using Launchbox. Since Launchbox can work on a portrait oriented monitor,I'm going try and configure MAME using command lines. This should enable me to play games like Donkey Kong,Pacman,Centipede ,etc in their original format. I guess I'm a purist when it comes to playing my favorite arcade classics.

[DOS76]

You can use MAMEUI in LB as the emulator and never see the front end part and use the UI to set your settings. I've learned enough about the ini file that I'm comfortable with not using the UI and setting up my settings in the text document

 

[Lordmonkus]

You don't need to use command lines if you don't want to, you can pop open the built in UI with the "Tab" key and configure each game as needed if you wanted to do things that way.

[DOS76]

Also opening stand alone MAME without a game loaded takes you into the built in UI and that has even more things you can config like path video drivers just save your config and it will overwrite your .ini

[stevep]

What version of MAME are you referring to? I'm running 0.164. This version doesn't allow me to alter those settings....at least not that I'm aware of. Please elaborate.

 

 

[Lordmonkus]

With a game loaded press the Tab key on your keyboard, then go down to Video Options. Then in there you should see an option for Rotate. I am fairly certain this feature is there for version 0.164 but it could be possible that it was not implemented back then. I am currently running 182 but I do know for certain that it has been in since 168. I no longer have any versions older than 178 to test with to be absolute certain though.

[stevep]

What version of MAME are you referring to? I'm running 0.164. This version doesn't allow me to alter those settings....at least not that I'm aware of. Please elaborate.

 

 

[DOS76]

 

8 hours ago, lordmonkus said:

I do know for certain that it has been in since 168.

As he said he was unsure if it was in that version but he is confident that it is available from 0.168 and on

[stevep]

Version 0.164 doesn't have this option. Updating to the newer version will reek havoc on my rom collection. As you know MAME is really finicky regarding the rom sets that you're using.....unless you have a solution around that I probably will stick with my current version. 

[DOS76]

Not really that finicky most ROMs don't change over time but yes some of the ROMs may have been altered or had name changes that would have them not working. If you aren't willing to update I don't know what you will do then.

[stevep]

Just downloaded MAMEUI. It has all the bells and whistles that I need for it to work. No problems interfacing with Launchbox. I think it used to be called MAME32.

[DOS76]

Yeah sorry I didn't think of that as its a pretty good alternative and allows you to set a lot of stuff up.