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Laythe:
Thanks, vertexguy, emphatic, markc74, javeryh, mgb, Mike A, XSFDriver, circusfreak, Gilrock and lomoverde!

There were a couple things that I wanted to respond to in particular...

--- Quote from: Gilrock on March 06, 2021, 02:56:40 pm ---It also has a 21:9 marquee monitor.

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I wanted to clarify here in case of confusion that mine isn't a 21:9 marquee. It's a LG M2900S, and it's wider and shorter than that. (It'd be a 25.6:9 if you were using that notation.) So if you're eyeballing it and thinking of using a 21:9 in a design, be aware that it'll end up 21% taller than this marquee is.

--- Quote from: circusfreak on March 05, 2021, 10:39:47 pm ---Great thinking outside the box using a portion of the TV screen to fill the entire screen area. If you are the first to come up with that idea, then genius!
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This is an interesting question.

I think that Maximus's Marvel vs Capcom: Revolution v2 was the first build here to go oversize vertical - least, the first one I could find. I thought that he didn't mask off the ends to show a square, and exposed the whole screen, but on review of the thread I see he went back and added masking later on. I suspect this is the 2014 machine that Gilrock mentioned that he got the idea from, but please correct me if I'm mistaken.

I had thought that Token's Moonshot and I might have been the first to do masked portrait builds here that only show the center square... Token's thread predates mine by a couple months because he was posting while he was building whereas I didn't want to post until I knew mine would get finished and work correctly, so I only started my thread at the very end of my build - but we were building at the same time, and had the idea independent of one another.

But, it looks to me like Maximus gets the credit for invention there.

As a five year ownership update... I'm still made happy by Mimic every time I play with it, which I still do pretty frequently. I wouldn't change much if I were building it over again - I might have gone with a real coin door converted to coin buttons like Shapeshifter has, which would require a slightly wider center column. I also might have gone with a removable interior-latched control panel in addition to that removable access panel below it that I used - but those are pretty minor revisions.

The illuminated balltops have held up well. If you use a wire slip ring under the sticks and high quality teflon insulated wires to the joystick tip LEDs, it seems to be a valid long term thing. I've had to replace microswitches in the joysticks quite a few times, but that's been about it for stuff wearing out.

LTC:
That is some outside the box thinking there. Looks amazing, but.....

ShapeShifter update?
:hissy:

Gilrock:
No I was just stating what size monitor I used. Yes my design came from Maximus. I agree my marquee monitor looks slightly tall but I do have the option to mask it with trim.

cuppm:
Was the software ever released for others to play with or customize?

Laythe:
If you're interested, I can send you a copy, but it's pretty special-cased to this machine. For example, I alter the emulation options for specific games that need them by hacking on the source code directly.

It might be useful as an example if you also want to roll your own front-end software. Let me know if you are still interested, knowing that caveat. ;D

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