Is a dual screen cocktail really a thing?

[Generic Eric]

I've never  seen such a thing, how many dual screen  cocktails were ever made?  Or is this a thing made possible  by mame?

http://imgur.com/a/ejenZ

[yotsuya]

That's definitely a MAME cab.

[Generic Eric]

That's definitely a MAME cab.

that looks like hyperspin, and the link I linked shows the pc.

My question was did dual screen cocktails exsisted in the wild before emulation.

[yotsuya]

That's definitely a MAME cab.

that looks like hyperspin, and the link I linked shows the pc.

My question was did dual screen cocktails exsisted in the wild before emulation.

I've never seen one.

[JDFan]

Only one close I've seen would be the Red Tent Nintendo VS systems

[yotsuya]

Well, and realistically, those are LCDs. There's no way you could cram two CRTs into a box that size.

[zallax]

It looks more like a single screen but with a bezel over the middle section.  My mini cocktail shows dual screens, on a single LCD, when the game is a horizontal game.

[JDFan]

It looks more like a single screen but with a bezel over the middle section.  My mini cocktail shows dual screens, on a single LCD, when the game is a horizontal game.

Could be done that way but in this case he mentions in the specs on the build thread :

- (2) HP Compaq LE1711 17" LCD Monitors - 1280x1024, 1000:1 Native, 5ms, 60Hz, VGA

So using 2 17" LCDs which are shown a bit better in this pic --

[yotsuya]

It looks more like a single screen but with a bezel over the middle section.  My mini cocktail shows dual screens, on a single LCD, when the game is a horizontal game.

There's not THAT much of a gap between screens on a single screen in cocktail mode. JDFan's post shows that. 

[ChanceKJ]

It's cool to see this kinda thing actualy built. I had planned on a 2x screen cocktail build myself. However I opted to build the DKU instead. So cool.

[Vigo]

Only one close I've seen would be the Red Tent Nintendo VS systems

Yep. VS nintendo cocktail.

[JDFan]

It's cool to see this kinda thing actually built. I had planned on a 2x screen cocktail build myself. However I opted to build the DKU instead. So cool.

Would be even better if you set it up with 2 linked systems so you could either play 2 different single player games or one head to head.

[Generic Eric]

It's cool to see this kinda thing actually built. I had planned on a 2x screen cocktail build myself. However I opted to build the DKU instead. So cool.

Would be even better if you set it up with 2 linked systems so you could either play 2 different single player games or one head to head.

Which games can you do that with?

[Vigo]

It's cool to see this kinda thing actually built. I had planned on a 2x screen cocktail build myself. However I opted to build the DKU instead. So cool.

Would be even better if you set it up with 2 linked systems so you could either play 2 different single player games or one head to head.

Which games can you do that with?

I would think all of them, with a kvm switch.

[JDFan]

It's cool to see this kinda thing actually built. I had planned on a 2x screen cocktail build myself. However I opted to build the DKU instead. So cool.

Would be even better if you set it up with 2 linked systems so you could either play 2 different single player games or one head to head.

Which games can you do that with?

Was thinking having it setup so 2nd player monitor and system was either a seperate second single player screen and system or using a switch could be set to mirror first player screen and inputs connected to first system to play any 2 player game with a mirrored monitor to play heads up.

[ChanceKJ]

I'm callin it now. 2015: Year of the Two Display builds.

You all know you want one two.

[yotsuya]

Nope. No need for one. If we're playing a 2P game, I need to be able to elbow you.

[ChanceKJ]

Pffft, cheater.

[JDFan]

I'm callin it now. 2015: Year of the Two Display builds.

You all know you want one two.

Hmm - seeing as I just picked up 2 Dell 2007FP 20 inch 4:3 IPS monitors for $36