stu187 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 I gutted a 1up pacman cocktail, installed a pc setup running windows 10. I have Big Box set up and Mame is running great with 2 player h2h split screen and also auto rotates for 2 player when necessary. My problem is that I can't seem to get the console games to do either view through Retroarch. My question is, is this possible or am I stuck with single player or 2 players swapping out for console games on a cocktail cabinet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Console hardware never put out a video signal for this but I do believe there are shaders available for head 2 head 2 display output. I can't say for certain there is of course but I do seem to recall seeing one a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu187 Posted March 23, 2022 Author Share Posted March 23, 2022 That's what I figured, only info I could find was on shaders. Skimmed over it, seemed complicated. I will check into it more. Thank you for the quick response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkssitch Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 6:34 PM, stu187 said: That's what I figured, only info I could find was on shaders. Skimmed over it, seemed complicated. I will check into it more. Thank you for the quick response. late response but if you still haven't figure the solution out yet, I recently did a cocktail cab running h2h split for consoles as well. My solution is going through retroarch and using this shader, "cocktail-cabinet.glsl". You may need to mess with the parameters to get them to fit just right but outside of that issue, that shater should solve your problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fursphere Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 2:37 PM, stu187 said: I gutted a 1up pacman cocktail, installed a pc setup running windows 10. I have Big Box set up and Mame is running great with 2 player h2h split screen and also auto rotates for 2 player when necessary. My problem is that I can't seem to get the console games to do either view through Retroarch. My question is, is this possible or am I stuck with single player or 2 players swapping out for console games on a cocktail cabinet? Screen flopping (or flipping really) is a function built into arcade games, where MAME emulates that function for cocktail cabinets. There were never any cocktail cabinet consoles.. it was all on a single TV screen. So it was never meant to work that way. The games (code) doesn't have a signal / trigger to tell the emulator its time to flip the screen for Player 2. Now, if RetroArch (or other) has a way to rotate the screen, you could assign a keystroke to that and then use a shifted function to manually flip the screen when its appropriate for P2 (or P3/P4 for those crazy big modern four player cocktail cabinets). Or mount a discrete button. You could probably get an autohotkey script to trigger Windows to flip the screen too. Or the NVidia control panel functions maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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