Screen for Hypermarquee on control panel

[extracampine]

Looking around online, I haven't seen this done before, though I could have missed something. What I am looking to do is have the dynamic marquee screen at the top of my control panel. The reason for this is that I will be using a pedestal control panel with a projector screen.

Has anyone any experience of this? Can anyone recommend somewhere to get a small marquee-shaped (i.e. bar) screen? Any potential problems?

Thanks!

[Mike A]

Projectors have pretty significant lag. Your arcade experience will be pretty bad. If you are a casual gamer it probably won't matter too much. My son tried playing xBox360 online with our projector and he experienced pretty terrible results.

[mourix]

Projectors have pretty significant lag. Your arcade experience will be pretty bad. If you are a casual gamer it probably won't matter too much. My son tried playing xBox360 online with our projector and he experienced pretty terrible results.

Huge generalization. Low end projectors have big lag, but the same goes for low end TVs. The expensive ones are mostly fine. Just take that into account when you buy them.

Can anyone recommend somewhere to get a small marquee-shaped (i.e. bar) screen? Any potential problems?

Googling "marquee lcd" will get you the right screens. Prepare to spend $500-$1000, though.

[Mike A]

I am telling you my direct experience with the 5 projectors that I have owned, and the probably half a dozen others I have played video games on. Your experience may vary.

[extracampine]

It's a sony VPL-HW40ES. Supposed to be a good choice for games and I don't really notice any input lag.

Any comments on the small LCD screen for in my control panel? I'm struggling to find something small (around 20cm or so in length).

[mourix]

They only exist for industrial use, that's why they are so hard to obtain. This is one.

It would be 10 times easier and cheaper to just take a 16:9 lcd, and hide the bottom half.

[extracampine]

They only exist for industrial use, that's why they are so hard to obtain. This is one.

That one looks interesting - would it be suitable. What's a "resizing" LCD - does it stretch or something? And how does it plug in to the computer - via HMDI/USB?

What about this one - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1280x320-thin-wide-stretched-bar-lcd_60528865991.html?spm=a2700.7724838.0.0.bIhSSm

[mourix]

That one looks interesting - would it be suitable. What's a "resizing" LCD - does it stretch or something? And how does it plug in to the computer - via HMDI/USB?

See this. Basically it's cutting an LCD panel into different dimensions. That's why you get the familiar resolutions of 1024 and 1280.

What about this one - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1280x320-thin-wide-stretched-bar-lcd_60528865991.html?spm=a2700.7724838.0.0.bIhSSm

Watch out! This is just this panel so it takes LVDS input. Without a vga/hdmi converter it won't work.

[extracampine]

It would be 10 times easier and cheaper to just take a 16:9 lcd, and hide the bottom half.

I'm wondering if this might be a better option. I should be able to "hide" part of the screen inside the panel, with a marquee-shaped cutout on the panel showing the relevant portion of the screen.

Is this easy enough to do software-wise with hypermarquee/the event dispatch system? Could you recommend a suitable screen in this instance? Thanks again.

[mourix]

Something like this or this. Nice easy to mount screens with IPS panels are the best in this situation.

I don't know the specific settings, but software like hypermarquee and mamehooker seem to do the business. Good luck

[extracampine]

They only exist for industrial use, that's why they are so hard to obtain. This is one.

I got a quote for the 8" version of that (Litemax SSH0822-ENN-G01) at £190. Do you think this is a reasonable option? It's a lot more than the equivalent size standard screen (around £40-£50), but I wonder if there are any advantages/disadvantages to either option? Thanks!