Mame exit script with irotate

[yinyan]

Hi

does anyone have an exit script i can use with irotate

im trying to get mame to rotate the screen 90 when i start a game and rotate back to 0 when i exit

now iv managed to rotate to 90 on start of the game thats all working , its just when i exit mame crashes and affects pinup popper menu

cheers

yin

TIA

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[randr]

I used i rotate for android in cab but never needed to for mame. Did you try just mame commandline options instead?

Core Rotation Options
-[no]rotate

Rotate the system to match its normal state (horizontal/vertical). This ensures that both vertically and horizontally oriented systems show up correctly without the need to rotate your monitor. If you want to keep the system displaying ‘raw’ on the screen the way it would have in the arcade, turn this option OFF.

The default is ON (-rotate).
-[no]ror

-[no]rol

Rotate the system screen to the right (clockwise) or left (counter-clockwise) relative to either its normal state (if -rotate is specified) or its native state (if -norotate is specified).

The default for both of these options is OFF (-noror -norol).
-[no]autoror

-[no]autorol

These options are designed for use with pivoting screens that only pivot in a single direction. If your screen only pivots clockwise, use -autorol to ensure that the system will fill the screen either horizontally or vertically in one of the directions you can handle. If your screen only pivots counter-clockwise, use -autoror.
-[no]flipx

-[no]flipy

Flip (mirror) the system screen either horizontally (-flipx) or vertically (-flipy). The flips are applied after the -rotate and -ror/-rol options are applied.

The default for both of these options is OFF (-noflipx -noflipy).

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[yinyan]

thanks for the reply

this is what im trying to do – iv got a 3 screen vpinball machine with integrated joysticks

im running pinuppopper front end and using mame i want to run the games on the main screen and on my backglass screen , iv got a marquee and other image on my topper screen.

the problem is the all the screens are in landscape mode so when mame runs the main screen is obviously on its side but with the startup script in pinup i can rotate it 90 and everything works fine until i want to escape the game, thats where it starts going pear shaped . so on exit of the game i ask irotate in the pinup end script to rotate back to zero and mame goes into meltdown and crashes everything

does mame let you run landscape and portrait on 2 different screens at the same time from command line options ???

thanks

 

 

 

 

 

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[NailBuster]

in v1.4 try some of these things:  (i don’t use irotate so not sure)

for your mame emulator there’s a checkbox ‘safe return’.  try settings that.

then in your mame emulator close script.  (assume mame32 is exe?)

taskkill /IM mame32.exe
irotate 0
timeout 2
"[STARTDIR]LAUNCH\PUPCLOSER.EXE" WINTIT "Visual Pinball" 1 1 

also, if your menu is working but some things are out of position, press game-menu button as that will recheck all positions of windows.

let me know

 

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[yinyan]

NailBuster wrote:

in v1.4 try some of these things:  (i don’t use irotate so not sure)

for your mame emulator there’s a checkbox ‘safe return’.  try settings that.

then in your mame emulator close script.  (assume mame32 is exe?)

taskkill /IM mame32.exe
irotate 0
timeout 2
"[STARTDIR]LAUNCH\PUPCLOSER.EXE" WINTIT "Visual Pinball" 1 1 

also, if your menu is working but some things are out of position, press game-menu button as that will recheck all positions of windows.

let me know

 

thats great – thats got the exit script working good

thanks again

 

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[NailBuster]

@yinyan :  good to know it works.  I’m updating the wiki and wanted to know if the sample i gave worked 100%?  did all windows come back in popper ok?

 

maybe you can copy/paste your launch/close script and i can use as example in wiki… thanks

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[yinyan]

Hi

yes all the windows came back on correctly

i didnt copy it like for like just used the taskkill and another line

but ill post my scripts tomorrow after work as iv shut my table down now

im sure there not perfect as im only just learning all this

thanks again

 

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[yinyan]

ok heres my scripts – prob not correct but they are working for me

START “” “[STARTDIR]Launch\VPXSTARTER.exe” “Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator” 2 2 10

START “” “[DIREMU]\irotate.exe” “/rotate=90”

f:

cd “f:\downs\mame”

START “” “[diremu]\mameuifx64.exe” “[GAMEFULLNAME]”

 

taskkill /im mameuifx64.exe
START “” “[DIREMU]\irotate.exe” “/rotate=0”
timeout 2
“[STARTDIR]LAUNCH\PUPCLOSER.EXE” PROC “mameuifx64” 4 4

 

 

this also assumes that irotate is in your mame folder but i suppose you

can change that for anywhere you like

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[TerryRed]

I myself use MAME without needing to rotate my screen with Popper. I just have MAME itself set to rotate in it’s own settings (like randr mentioned). So it’s literally just as simple as launching MAME….no extra programs needed.

 

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[yinyan]

TerryRed wrote:

I myself use MAME without needing to rotate my screen with Popper. I just have MAME itself set to rotate in it’s own settings (like randr mentioned). So it’s literally just as simple as launching MAME….no extra programs needed.

 

hi

yeah but then it would rotate both screens  wouldnt it ??? my backglass screen wants to be landscape and playfield portrait

ill try it later

thanks

 

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[randr]

It will only rotate display 1 but with cammand line you can setup multiple screens too If you wanted.  Mame has all that built in for emulation :)

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[yinyan]

no just tried it and it rotated both screens

ill leave it as it is – its working how i want it at the minute

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[Johnny844]

Hi, im having problems with closing script  for my MAME64. I tried the “taskkill” and it closed the MAME. However, after closing it, i cant seem to launch any game at all.

I can still navigate through the menu and select games, just cant launch the game… any idea why??

 

THanks

Jko

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