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extendedplayarcade:
I am sure you posted it somewhere here but what monitor did you use?
and what is the top mini monitor for?
I have an golden Tee 99 i might make into a mame trackball game and looking to take the CRT out of it.
it is a working 25 in crt but I am just sick of CRTs.
bigbuffs:
--- Quote from: extendedplayarcade on August 02, 2011, 04:19:10 pm ---I am sure you posted it somewhere here but what monitor did you use?
and what is the top mini monitor for?
I have an golden Tee 99 i might make into a mame trackball game and looking to take the CRT out of it.
it is a working 25 in crt but I am just sick of CRTs.
--- End quote ---
The monitor is a "24 Asus but it is actually not the monitor I plan on using in the end. I have a dual monitor setup for my home PC and this was just a test monitor. I plan on going with a 26or27" in the end to maximize the space. One thing I have found with the asus monitor is that the viewing angle from the top and bottom isn't very good. Because of the slant of the cabinet the monitor doesn't sit at optimal viewing angle. It hasn't bothered me but my girlfriend who is a lot shorter says sometimes she has a hard time seeing the screen. As far as the second monitor I just put it there becasue I had it lying a round and I'm not sure what I'll use it for but some good ideas were suggested in previous posts.
extendedplayarcade:
Yeah I hear ya I have an asus monitor too. So i hear ya on the angles. I just flipped mine around
there is photos on http://www.extendedplayarcade.com/mamecocktail
or i will post them below
I am not sure if that idea helps? but you can flip the screen in some Front End to my understanding
--- Quote from: bigbuffs on August 02, 2011, 06:44:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: extendedplayarcade on August 02, 2011, 04:19:10 pm ---I am sure you posted it somewhere here but what monitor did you use?
and what is the top mini monitor for?
I have an golden Tee 99 i might make into a mame trackball game and looking to take the CRT out of it.
it is a working 25 in crt but I am just sick of CRTs.
--- End quote ---
The monitor is a "24 Asus but it is actually not the monitor I plan on using in the end. I have a dual monitor setup for my home PC and this was just a test monitor. I plan on going with a 26or27" in the end to maximize the space. One thing I have found with the asus monitor is that the viewing angle from the top and bottom isn't very good. Because of the slant of the cabinet the monitor doesn't sit at optimal viewing angle. It hasn't bothered me but my girlfriend who is a lot shorter says sometimes she has a hard time seeing the screen. As far as the second monitor I just put it there becasue I had it lying a round and I'm not sure what I'll use it for but some good ideas were suggested in previous posts.
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Donkbaca:
You are going to run into that issue with the bigger monitor unless its a pva or ips screen. Most LCD screens use TN technology, if you do a search here you can read all about the differences, but long story short. TN's will always have bad angles because the LCD crystals are at right angles to the screen, whereas in the other two, they are parallel. A lot of times the viewing angles will be decent side to side, but will be bad top to bottom.
I would ditch the extra buttons for players 3 and 4, you don't need more than 4 buttons for them since there aren't any 4p games that I can think of that use more than 4 buttons.
I would also rethink doing a 4p panel, unless you actually have 4 people over that want to play arcade games, its sort of a waste of space and money.
bigbuffs:
So I finally got back to work on this cab. I decided that it was just too big for my house and that I needed to make it smaller so I ended up cutting off the back end of the cab and redesigning the layout of it. I have the constronstion of the cabinet pretty much done now with only a few more things to do on the basic build. I will post some pics soon of what I have done.
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