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Monitor Horizontal or Vertical
Thenasty:
Have both in one Cabinet ;D
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=26696.0
epetti:
I tried rotating my monitor before I started building the cabinet to see how games looked both ways. I was shocked at just how much bigger vertical games were on a vertical monitor, even with 4:3 aspect ratio monitor. That's why the only crazy thing I'm taking on for my first cabinet is rigging up a rotating monitor.
Malenko:
32" CRT mounted vertically in a KI2 cab:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=97260.0
plenty of pix in the thread.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 20, 2013, 03:23:13 pm ---Not sure why, but horizontal games on a vertical monitor look tiny and awkward to me.
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It depends on the game. If it is a horizontal game with ~256 pixels or less wide then it can look pretty good on a vertical monitor. Particularly games that don't really matter about keeping the aspect ratio correct. eg Missile Command looks great fullscreen on a vertical monitor.
(I'm talking about arcade monitors).
TopJimmyCooks:
Rotate. It's easy these days
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