latin625 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 You can do it, I suggest looking at the Mame documentation for info on how to do it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latin625 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 http://docs.mamedev.org/ This doc is great 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latin625 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 Outstanding! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 \\.\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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latin625 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latin625 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS Screen = auto edit this to be Screen = \\.\Display2 if that doesn't work try it with 1 instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=349289 Check the 2nd post 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latin625 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 lol have fun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latin625 Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=182698&page=0&view=expanded&sb=3&o=&fpart=1&vc=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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