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| paigeoliver:
Outside of real arcade monitors I would suggest the following. Try real hard to find a 27" vga CRT monitor. If you can't find that, then the next choice is a 21" CRT monitor (easy to find and cheap, but too small for a big cabinet). If none of that pans out, then you can always go to a modern lcd or plasma. The older games don't look so hot on them and vertical games look just terrible on them (widescreen makes them use up only like 1/3rd of the screen). |
| consolas:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 22, 2012, 12:55:39 am ---Outside of real arcade monitors I would suggest the following. Try real hard to find a 27" vga CRT monitor. If you can't find that, then the next choice is a 21" CRT monitor (easy to find and cheap, but too small for a big cabinet). If none of that pans out, then you can always go to a modern lcd or plasma. The older games don't look so hot on them and vertical games look just terrible on them (widescreen makes them use up only like 1/3rd of the screen). --- End quote --- Thanks for the tips!! Thing is, since I'm going to go with the small arcade - like the picture in the post, I think it's called bar top from what I read - I think a 19 LCD will suffice. Lcds are pretty much square so there will be no issues with vertical games, right? |
| MacGyver:
As someone who made one that comes apart, I can say it will take a lot longer to build, and weigh twice as much. Oh, it will also be much more expensive, and the measurements and cuts will need to be much more accurate. If I lived in the States, I would have just made a normal one, hell, I would have just purchased an old one. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,121739.0.html |
| consolas:
--- Quote from: MacGyver on September 22, 2012, 02:10:25 am ---As someone who made one that comes apart, I can say it will take a lot longer to build, and weigh twice as much. Oh, it will also be much more expensive, and the measurements and cuts will need to be much more accurate. If I lived in the States, I would have just made a normal one, hell, I would have just purchased an old one. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,121739.0.html --- End quote --- Yeah that is out of the question This will be a solid bar top arcade machine I've already updated my post in the project section, thanks a bunch! |
| Crazy Cooter:
--- Quote from: consolas on September 22, 2012, 01:25:47 am ---Lcds are pretty much square so there will be no issues with vertical games, right? --- End quote --- Not the new ones. Almost everything is widescreen. |
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