SSF display text is vertically flipped on some games.

[PL1-Arcade]

SSF display text is vertically flipped on some games.

• Star Castle (starcas)
• Space Fury (spacfury)
• War of the Worlds (wotw)
• Tunnel Hunt (tunhunt)
• Zektor (zektor)
• Lady Frog (ladyfrog)

My first thought was that this probably happens in mirrored vector cabs like Asteroids Deluxe (astdelux) but it doesn't happen with that game.

• Pretty sure the reason is that the MAME "Upright" machine config setting is actually for the Cabaret (non-mirrored) version of the cab.
  

It happens in Star Castle (starcas), but that isn't a mirror cab per pg. 62 of the manual.
https://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/S/StarCastle.pdf

Cocktail video flipping for Player 2 leaves the ROM name and frame count text in the same position and orientation on your monitor -- tested in Asteroids Deluxe and Star Castle Cocktail (starcasc).

BTW another game with different SSF display text trouble is Space Zap (spacezap,0) -- the text doesn't appear on screen at all. Moved to issue #28.

Scott

[Jakobud]

Thanks I will investigate

[Jakobud]

I'm not sure if it is possible to fix this with the LUA API right now. It seems that the orientation (and mirroring) of the text has to match the orientation (and mirroring) of the game. There is not way to orient or flip the text by itself. I will keep looking into it but I don't see a workaround at the moment.