Question about XXX-in-1 Jama board in vertical monitor

[PTD]

I just bought a vertical bartop that has the 276 in 1 Jama board.  The bartop is small and does not have enough room for me to put in an itx motherboard/power supply to do a Hyperspin set up.  Therefore, I have to go with a Jama board.  I don't like a lot of games in the 276-in-1 because I am more interested in vertical shooters/Shmup games.

The 310 in 1 Pandora`s Box Jamma PCB and the Blue Elf 2 Jamma Board has some nice vertical shooters but that board is mainly for horizontal monitor. 

My question is:  Will the horizontal games in these Jamma boards look too odd on a vertical monitor or will it be o.k.?  Will it crop the top and bottom with black bars?

I would like to know before I replace my 276 in 1 vertical games Jama board to the Pandora's box or the Blue Elf 2.

[Haze]

I wouldn't bank on any of them being worthwhile.

The systems you mention run mid-era versions of MAME on linux using massively underpowered ARM hardware.

As a result you have many many glitches (the one I saw with Batsugun was *horrific* with invisible bullets in many places) as well as bad audio, awful frameskipping and long loading times.  They also suffer from nasty video tearing and jumpy shimmering scrolling too, because nothing is running at the correct refresh rate or resolution.

You get what you pay for, so if you buy junk, you get junk.

They also used the cheapest recycled flash chips they can find, we've tried dumping one or two of them only to find the data for entire games was simply corrupt!

All the xxx-in-1 boards are as bad as each other, they were designed to cash in on the greedy and naive.

[CheffoJeffo]

All the xxx-in-1 boards are as bad as each other, they were designed to cash in on the greedy and naive.

You forgot lazy.

* CheffoJeffo has two cabinets with xx-in-1 boards for precisely that reason.

[Haze]

All the xxx-in-1 boards are as bad as each other, they were designed to cash in on the greedy and naive.

You forgot lazy.

* CheffoJeffo has two cabinets with xx-in-1 boards for precisely that reason.

Well while I think the xx-in-1 (up to about 60-in-1) are pretty damn bad in terms of audio/visual quality etc. they at least have an appropriate version of the emulator for the hardware, and are fully tested / tuned for that setup, with full integration into their frontend even if it does mean the actual emulation results aren't IMHO satisfying.

The xxx-in-1 and higher tho are just pure junk, there are games on them that just plain don't work, eg. they have IGS's Puzzle Star, using MAME emulation which means that when you get to stage 2 the game is completely unplayable because we didn't extract the protection data past the first rounds yet, they also have CPS1/2/3 running at half framerate (making them unplayable in places because the sprite flicker gets broken) etc. etc.  They're clearly put out with no real testing at all.  They're neither well tuned, nor well integrated to the front end.