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Source for marquee monitor?
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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2017, 04:11:56 pm »
For $800, it better come with the rest of the arcade machine.

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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2017, 04:50:45 pm »
You guys and your LCD Marquee monitors, man.
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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2017, 09:48:34 pm »
You guys and your LCD Marquee monitors, man.

I know... it's like soooo 2014  ;D

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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2017, 09:59:28 pm »
You guys and your LCD Marquee monitors, man.

I know... it's like soooo 2014  ;D

Edited because i couldn't remember when i made blip!
I blame you - you did it so well,  you made it look easy!  :cheers:
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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2017, 12:45:53 am »
Just print out a stack of marquees. Hire a guy to stand by the machine and swap out the marquees as you change games. It will be cheaper.

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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2017, 02:59:56 am »
There are several sources on Alibaba. One of them: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/special-customized-TFT-LCD-module-panel_876684360.html -- and check the "you may like" at the bottom.

You might also have luck with monitors for slot machines. My cab is smaller, I used a 17x3 Kortek one, but there are 26 inchers out there, I think.

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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2017, 07:34:55 pm »
560 dollars will buy a lot of tacos.

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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2017, 10:35:09 pm »
So, what you do, is you print all your marquees on a continuous sheet of flexible transparent plastic, and you motorize a scroll like old metro busses used for their "Destination" sign. 

Your frontend tells the arduino to bump the motor to reel, say, 14 marquees worth of vertical feed off the top reel onto the bottom reel, and what's exposed in the middle between the rollers in front of your backlight is the current game.

You can have a couple idler wheels up front to match the traditional arcade cabinet profile, the big takeup reels can be buried back in the guts of the machine.

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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2017, 10:38:45 pm »
This sounds like it would be just as, if not more expensive.

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Re: Source for marquee monitor?
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2017, 10:44:23 pm »
Well, yeah.  It'd also take forever to index once you had a hundred games on it, and it'd wear out.  They stopped using those mechanical scroll displays for a reason in the busses, too.