2huwman's Arcade

[2huwman]

Looks great dude, have sent a PM asking about how you linked the screen with Mamehooker.

I found it a bit of a struggle to get working, but the instructions are here:

The Dragon King - Display Files: Displaying a Marquee on a Secondary Monitor

dragonking.arcadecontrols.com

There is an extra change you have to make in the mame.ini for mamehooker to work - not knowing this was what gave me most trouble! You have to set this in mame.ini if you're using above mame 176

#
# OSD OUTPUT OPTIONS
#
output windows

Trying to use the MAME secondary monitor stuff just messed up the timings of the games with groovyMAME, so this was the only way I could get it to work.

 

[benimaru7]

Thanks this is great!
Will get a monitor and give it a go.

 

[2huwman]

I've decorated my Mini Cute with a few Super Impulse models, for additional cuteness! I'm powering them all by USB from the MAME PC inside the cab, so they turn off and on with the cab. Had to use a timer relay to power-cycle them every 30 seconds so they don't go into sleep mode! You can see them flick off and on briefly in the video (I zoom in at the end of the video), but it works well.

 

[benimaru7]

The marquee just won’t work for me.
I have windows 7 with Groovymame output via vga at 15khz from my Radeon and use the secondary hdmi out to my second marquee screen. Windows shows the hdmi second screen as (1) and my main 15khz screen as (2).

I’ve configured MH (Mamehooker) default.ini to my hdmi marquee monitor resolution and positioned it at the top left above my main (x 0 y -1440).

Added the extra coding to MH mamestart for lds marquee in the MH ini folder (plus the ini in MH mame folder) and also changed output windows in mame’s ini.

MH has the correct path specified in the marquee script.

I get a blank screen everytime I load a game from attract mode. MH see’s I have loaded a rom in its log.

Does MH only work with secondary screens defined as (2) in screen properties within Windows?

Spent ages going back and forth and nothing works sadly.

 

[Giddygoon]

I attempted to visit the IOW arcade in 2023 and was told it moved next door this was all that was left…

 

[2huwman]

The marquee just won’t work for me.
I have windows 7 with Groovymame output via vga at 15khz from my Radeon and use the secondary hdmi out to my second marquee screen. Windows shows the hdmi second screen as (1) and my main 15khz screen as (2).

I’ve configured MH (Mamehooker) default.ini to my hdmi marquee monitor resolution and positioned it at the top left above my main (x 0 y -1440).

Added the extra coding to MH mamestart for lds marquee in the MH ini folder (plus the ini in MH mame folder) and also changed output windows in mame’s ini.

MH has the correct path specified in the marquee script.

I get a blank screen everytime I load a game from attract mode. MH see’s I have loaded a rom in its log.

Does MH only work with secondary screens defined as (2) in screen properties within Windows?

Spent ages going back and forth and nothing works sadly.

I'll have a look at my config and see if there's anything different. What version of mame are you using?

 

[benimaru7]

Using Groovymame version 283 I believe, with Attractmode and CrtEmuDriver.
Thanks and sorry to clutter your thread.

 

[Robotgreg]

I attempted to visit the IOW arcade in 2023 and was told it moved next door this was all that was left… View attachment 58904View attachment 58905

Yeah the original arcade is now a pool club Rocket Ronnies although you can see some Arcade references on the walls as a homage to it's original usage, a nice touch.

Very happy memories throughout the whole of the 80s of Arcadia being one of my local haunts.

However every time I came back to visit from the 2000s onwards, the arcade seemed to be sad and sadder and less and less of its original self as if it was slowly dying.