Uh... What's TATE? (stop laughing...)

[gamingjustin]

People use the term TATE so casually 'round here... I know that Ikaruga has it... but... how does it work? I can understand that on a computer monitor the resolution is tighter horizontally than vertically... but a TV is (in my case) a square... So how can fliping it on its side make any difference?

Just gimme a breakdown on TATE, please. Then I'll be satisfied.

[professor ganson]

People use the term TATE so casually 'round here... I know that Ikaruga has it... but... how does it work? I can understand that on a computer monitor the resolution is tighter horizontally than vertically... but a TV is (in my case) a square... So how can fliping it on its side make any difference?

Just gimme a breakdown on TATE, please. Then I'll be satisfied.

Well, in the usual case a tv screen is not a square but a rectangle. Setting your tv on its side can allow a vertical shooter to take up the entire screen, as in the arcade.

[gamingjustin]

Oh... Hm, intriguing. So what does TATE stand for? Is it, like, an acronym?

[Blade]

Tate has 2 meanings, one is just the Japanese term for 'flipped vertical' or you can be a dumb American about it and say it's Ro-TATE for short.

[OmegaFlareX]

In the case of the former (the Japanese word), it's pronounced "tah-tay".

What's D's site? I think it's http://turn.to/vertical or something. Has lots of tate-related info.

[GaijinPunch]

or you can be a dumb American about it and say it's Ro-TATE for short.

Well said. Someone here actually has the kanji for it as their avatar. I thought that was quite clever.

Maybe I'll use the kanji for yoko (horizontal) as mine.

[black mariah]

Pedantic bastard time! The word tate doesn't mean specifically 'flipped vertical". It's more just a generic word meaning 'vertical' or 'height'. Yoko, something else you may see, refers to 'horizontal' or 'width'.

Then again, I don't know Japanese and I got all this from freedict.com.

[zinger]

I actually reacted when I heard someone in 'Spirited Away' say TATE last week. It was translated as "stand up", and indeed, Rumi stood up

[twirling_fern]

I am using mame to play games like strikers 1945. I have yet to figure out how to rotate the game. Pressing T for tilt does nothing. I did not see anything in the dip switches.

Any help please?

[crithit5000]

For MAME32-

Right click the game->Properties->Display->Rotate

[twirling_fern]

I am using the newest version of MAME. In this version everything is done with the keyboard.

[Vexorg]

If you're using the command line, it's -rol for rotate left (which is how most LCDs with swivel bases will rotate) or -ror for rotate right (which is how most console games with TATE mode will rotate the screen.

[TVG]

is it safe to tate a portable pc?

[sffan]

...or you can be a dumb American about it and say it's Ro-TATE for short.

I resemble that remark.

Seriously, don't insult nationalities around here. We're supposed to be civilized.

[Metal Gear Okt]

is it safe to tate a portable pc?

you mean a laptop?

sure.

[black mariah]

...or you can be a dumb American about it and say it's Ro-TATE for short.

I resemble that remark.

Seriously, don't insult nationalities around here. We're supposed to be civilized.

Shut up, stupid American. Your nation is silly and smells like toast.

[crithit5000]

...or you can be a dumb American about it and say it's Ro-TATE for short.

I resemble that remark.

Seriously, don't insult nationalities around here. We're supposed to be civilized.

Shut up, stupid American. Your nation is silly and smells like toast.

Powered toast?

[Thunder Force]

Seriously, don't insult nationalities around here. We're supposed to be civilized.

Shut up, stupid American. Your nation is silly and smells like toast.

It is not acceptable to deliberately annoy others on this board, even if you think you're being tongue-in-cheek.

[GaijinPunch]

Okay, here's how the word works.

tate ?c = vertical
yoko ‰¡?@= horizontal

What you heard in Spirited Away:
tatsu —§‚ = to stand
tatte —§‚Á‚Ä (pronunciation is different) is the ~te form of that verb. Can be commanding form, or a number of other things. Who knows without context.

To "make something tate" or "tate something" would be tate ni suru. It's really not game terminology. The first time I TATE'ed my TV, my wife, who hates games and knows dick about them, said "It's TATE'ed".

Conversely, to "lay down" (for a nap) you would say yoko ni naru.
</pointless lesson>

[black mariah]

Seriously, don't insult nationalities around here. We're supposed to be civilized.

Shut up, stupid American. Your nation is silly and smells like toast.

It is not acceptable to deliberately annoy others on this board, even if you think you're being tongue-in-cheek.

Yeah, well, I'd expect something like that coming from someone whose mother was a hamster.

[Thunder Force]

Shut up, stupid American. Your nation is silly and smells like toast.

It is not acceptable to deliberately annoy others on this board, even if you think you're being tongue-in-cheek.

Yeah, well, I'd expect something like that coming from someone whose mother was a hamster.

Whatever. If your choice is to continue to ignore moderator advice, it will be considered repeat violation, no amount of smileys will change that.