Mame Second monitor?

[latin625]

Hi, I have just purchased a second monitor and wanted to use it from games that have two screens like punchout, etc...

I see LB can show the marquee, but how can I get the second monitor to show the monitor playfield on game like PO?

Thanks!

[SentaiBrad]

For special two screen games like Punch Out, I would guess it's all in the game specific settings. It's nothing that LaunchBox or Big Box would be able to control. Otherwise I'm not sure.

[Lordmonkus]

You can do it, I suggest looking at the Mame documentation for info on how to do it.

[latin625]

Thanks!  Do you have a link to it? did a search on the forum and came up with this very thread.

Also, I noticed that sometimes when I launch a game, the marquee disappears.. is there a way to stop that from happening?

[DOS76]

http://docs.mamedev.org/

This doc is great

[latin625]

Outstanding!  Thanks!

[DOS76]

\\.\DISPLAY2
This is what you set the display to but with you monitor number I think my dual monitor used 0 and 1 not 1 and 2 though but I'm not upstairs to check and can't recall

 

[latin625]

Oh boy...  Looks a bit to techie for a noob like me.   Tried doing a search and stuff about filters and commandline, etc...  Do you have any suggestions on the keyword to use in there to get to the monitor part?

[latin625]

2 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

\\.\DISPLAY2
This is what you set the display to but with you monitor number I think my dual monitor used 0 and 1 not 1 and 2 though but I'm not upstairs to check and can't recall

 

where can I set that?

[DOS76]

OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS

Screen = auto edit this to be Screen = \\.\Display2 if that doesn't work try it with 1 instead.

[DOS76]

Actually hmm I use this to play vertical games on my portrait monitor and horizontal games on my landscape monitor I'm not sure on how to do dual screen games.

[DOS76]

https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=349289

Check the 2nd post

[latin625]

OMG!!! DOS76 you are the TRUTH!  It works!  Just got knocked out by Sandman though....=(

It has been a long time since I tinkered with my cab and had to remember where the correct emulator I was using was located. gotta delete these old files and old emulators. I was away messing around with my pinball X cab for the last month and a half.  If you ever need help with that, im your man!  Thanks again, bro's.

Gonna go kick some more rear end in puchout!  OR rather, get my rear end kicked. lol.

 

 

[DOS76]

lol have fun

[Lordmonkus]

If you can post exactly what you did to make this work that would be awesome Maybe someone else in the future will be looking for this.

[latin625]

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=182698&page=0&view=expanded&sb=3&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

[Hamburglin]

A more permanent fix can be found here: