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Can you give mame a specific portion of the screen, and a marquee on the top?

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Lilwolf:
I'm looking at building a smaller candy cab.  I'm having some issues with the marquee I had (betabrite).  It doesn't match the monitor I was going to use (too wide).

So the next idea.  Maybe I would buy a larger tv, and split the TV real estate with the majority at the bottom for the arcade.  But the top chunk for an active lcd marquee.

Is there any easy way to do this these days? 

Thanks
Drake

Nocturnaloner:
I was thinking about this.  I did get Hypermarquee running pretty well with a secondary small but wide monitor that was made to go in car seat backs.  Looks ok mounted in the cabinet above my main monitor, but the quality of the monitor is pretty poor.  Anyway, in order to do what you're thinking of, I'm afraid it would just be two applications running in windowed mode.

2600:
You should be able to do this using the MAME artwork system.

lamprey:

--- Quote from: 2600 on March 14, 2016, 10:37:46 am ---You should be able to do this using the MAME artwork system.

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+1

That's what I've done on my system.

Nocturnaloner:


--- Quote from: lamprey on March 14, 2016, 12:47:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: 2600 on March 14, 2016, 10:37:46 am ---You should be able to do this using the MAME artwork system.

--- End quote ---
+1

That's what I've done on my system.

--- End quote ---


That's right, it slipped my mind that you could do it with a .lay file.   Are you making custom layouts for each game(!!) or did you come up with one layout that works for everything?

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