Vertical screen non-shoot 'em ups.

Clyde

@grant2258 Yes, I do have some custom mappings, that's why I wouldn't want to delete the whole directory without reason. <:)

Thanks for all your good work, fellas.

DeadStretch

Oh wow this is a recent thread. Oddly enough I am doing the exact same thing. Building a dedicated vertical setup.

I came across a wonderful masterlist of all Vertical [edit] Classic Arcade games.

https://arcadecart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/412-Vertical-Game-List1.pdf

[Edit2] What theme and/or Frontend are you using?

DougA

@deadstretch I don't have a final theme yet. I am just using the default, which doesn't fit properly, until I get the build finished in a month or so (hopefully). Then I am going to modify something to fit the 3:4 aspect ratio properly. I would like a splash screen that fits properly too. I am not that keen on some of the scraped images I have ended up with, so I wanted to look for some better images too. Preferably a consistent type, eg always flyers, or always screenshots of game in progress, and with a consistent aspect ration and size. I wanted to limit myself to a relatively small number of games, ie under 50, so manually customizing the metadata won't be too painful. I have too much scraped information in the vein of "this is a 36 year old arcade game...", which was already 2 years out of data on the day I scraped it that I want to change to something that doesn't get out of date, such as "This arcade game, released in 1982..."

Dipkid

Maybe its been mentioned but (although I guess its a shoot em up) Gun.Smoke!

DougA

@dipkid No, it wasn't mentioned. Thanks for the suggestion.

chizzer

@deadstretch Vertipi is excellent for a vertical mame setup

DougA

@chizzer Yes, I had read that, but as I am not an expert, I wanted to get my bearings on retropie, especially because of the advice and support I can get on this forum. Once I get more familiar with Linux, python etc I will branch out

caver01

@chizzer @DeadStretch just know that Vertipie appears to be a third party image which is unsupported territory. It will be difficult/impossible to troubleshoot anything using that image (you would have to ask Freddy, its creator for help).

It would be better to look into the Attract Mode theme used and learn that configuration in the process.

DougA

@caver01 sounds like a good idea. Baby steps...

DeadStretch

@chizzer Sorry. I don't use 3rd party RetroPie Images.

As for the topic in the thread, I've found out that Attract Mode has a few vertical themes/layouts.

Also the Pegesus frontend (found on these forums) looks like it will work great in vertical as well.

So that's what I'm going to be testing and messing around with the next few days.