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Monitor Horizontal or Vertical
DHTech:
I'm sure this has been asked 1000s of times before, but I couldn't find anything in the search, so apologies.
What's best to mount the monitor Horizontal or Vertical for a mame upright cabinet?
MTPPC:
I like horizontal and then force the vertical games to maintain their aspect ratio. You just end up not using about a third of the screen when playing vertical games.
shponglefan:
Depends on the games you are playing.
Termin8tor:
Build two. One vertical and one horizontal, easy. >:D
BadMouth:
The correct answer is - YES
:cheers:
Those who focus on the vertical classics or vertical shmups usually mount them vertically.
Those who are more into the 90's fighters usually mount them horizontally.
Not sure why, but horizontal games on a vertical monitor look tiny and awkward to me.
Vertical games on a horizontal monitor don't bother me as much even though technically they are the same size.
Could be that I'm used to horizontal games with 25" monitors, but only 19" monitors on vertical games.
Some don't want to decide, so they rotate: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,108897.0.html