Mame on an 8' screen

[Zakk]

This news snippit has got me more e-mail then pretty much anything I can recall.  So I thought I might add it here in case someone else is thinking about "what my mame setup needs".

One guy wanted me to make a huge control panel that you could sit at with super-oversized controls for this

Projector: Panasonic PTLC55U LCD
Screen: (I dunno got it through the local school board) 8 foot X 8 foot.

Results: best game of Asteroids deluxe EVER.  Was like playing in a movie house.  

Oh, and movies are kickass on it, I've had the thing for a couple of months now, and just can't get over the thing.  Indiana Jones collection out tomorrow (whoo hoo!)

http://www.mameworld.net/massive/news/news.html
(October 16 news)

[Bomber]

The words "died and gone to heaven" come to mind.

Anyway, back to my 17" fishbowl and sidewinder control pad....

[Edgedamage]

8 foot stargate yum.

[Zakk]

Look, I already told you...Stargate was impossible on a 19" screen, IT DOESN'T GET ANY EASIER ON THIS SCREEN!  

You screen groupie you  

[night]

what games are those on the bottom right and bottom middle ?

[Zakk]

Good god man!  I can see not knowing Eliminator, but Berzerk?!?!?!

Well, fair enough, I wouldn't know mortal kombat from killer instinct...

[mastahkaz]

I have a video projector too (infocus X1 DLP) its amazzzzzing to watch movies and play video games on.  I have yet to try mame or supergun on it as i'm in between homes right now so its packed away.  

[seaner]

I too also have a video projector that is sitting idle in a corner of the basement collecting dust.
Unfortunately it is of the early-80s vintage, and as such, the tubes are getting a bit misty-eyed.  It's one of those "doubles as a coffee table" style projectors with about 30 different pots to adjust when you need to recalibrate.  Anyone with a projector should, in my opinion, consider hosting a drive-in movie night in their driveway.. I know I'm gonna try it out before the snow hits
Great for letterbox-formatted movies, those black bars at the top & bottom, well, they disappear since there is no surrounding tv

[allroy1975]

it's hard to find words to tell you how much I hate you.

I can't do it.

I'm not a poet.  I don't have the words.

I just hate you.

but it's only because i'm not you.

you understand I'm sure...  

Allroy

[1UP]

Did you try anything special with the audio, like echo or DSP effects?  A concert hall setting might be nice....  

[nighthawk2099]

Well... all I can say is.....

  WOW !!!  

One day, when I grow up, I want to be just like him....

[Lilwolf]

I bought one a year ago... but a really old one..  

I was going to make it into a pedistal cab.  

But I never spent the money on a screen big enought (cost 10x what I got the projector for..).  and the projector I got (cheap) (the big old box ones that sit on the floor) can't focus when you get it closer then 9 feet or so...

So it ended up a non-useable for the space I had....

Now I am considering moving it on it's side that will fix a bunch of problems...  

but if you think mame was fun on them... FPS show up GREAT on them... really add something to them.  I really felt after a minute that I was in the game... and started to make me feel a little...well... nausues (sp?)... a TRUE sign of a technology gone right if you think you might hurl or you feel it when you jump off a 100' cliff!

[Krynos]

I've been known to do this too, I have a full on home theater room, HD capable CRT projector, 8 foot wide 16:9 screen, 7.1 sound etc etc, all running though a Home theater Computer / video processor / scaler.

Arcade games on the big screen rule heheh, though to be honest I still prefer standing at my cab playing.

- Krynos

[grafixmonkey]

hehe, maybe I should get a pic of my friend's place where he has a wide-format HDTV projector with dolby digital, and a hacked x-box playing Mame games with its little controllers.

Hey, you should get these for your pushbuttons in your setup!:
http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/53870100.htm
http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/954002xxxxz.htm

That Mega-Pushbutton is 2.8" diameter!

You can space them apart, and use these to push them:
http://www.happcontrols.com/amusement/acesor/51500100.htm

It would be like the exact opposite of the Mini-Mame project.  Performing a 7-hit combo in MK3 would actually require martial arts training!

[Zakk]

Hehe I could call it 'whack-a-mame'

[Brax]

Just don't play Fantasia with a name like that!

[Chris]

This is just screaming for Battlezone, Star Wars or Red Baron... or perhaps Pole Position...

[Brax]

pole postion..... *snicker*