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| Titchgamer:
Yeah it just screams bad planning or a lack of knowledge of how the games are played. |
| LTC:
Poorly executed, but I don't hate the idea of artwork on lcd screens on the sides. The LCD under the controls is just too much. |
| shponglefan:
--- Quote from: LTC on March 17, 2020, 09:12:47 pm ---Poorly executed, but I don't hate the idea of artwork on lcd screens on the sides. The LCD under the controls is just too much. --- End quote --- Makes me wonder if there would be a feasible way to execute that though? I mean, having changeable artwork for the control panel would be pretty cool. Just... not the way this was done. |
| Howard_Casto:
It might be possible, it'd probably just cost a fortune to get made. I've seen lcds panels cut online and if you do it with the right tools they still work. With holes you'd probably need a lcd/OLED with a matrix running in each direction for redundancy. I think they make those but I don't know what happens when you cut a hole in the middle. Now barring that there is the option of rear projection. That'd be a lot easier but you'd run into the same problem this person has.... you can't show graphics through the bottom of the sticks. Regular projection is also an option but your hands would be in the way (duh). It's a fantastic idea.... been wanting to do something like that for the past 20 years. The tech is almost there. I mean we could (properly) implement the side art right now. Those screens on that cab are cheap onn screens... they are around $150 at Walmart and sometimes you can get them even cheaper. They are super thin so if a person were to properly route out a cavity to inset them in the side of a traditional cab and maybe put plexi over the whole side to give it a nice finish it could be made to look good. The same goes for the marquee... a tv is the wrong aspect ratio but the excess could be professionally cut off or integrated into the cabinet design somehow. We've already seen a few mount a lcd vertically to use virtual bezels.... you just hide the extra length of the screen inside the cab. If it's centered, windows doesn't have a problem running fullscreen games on a vertical screen these days. |
| fallacy:
--- Quote ---Makes me wonder if there would be a feasible way to execute that though? I mean, having changeable artwork for the control panel would be pretty cool. --- End quote --- Change art work dude if you had a screen bezel, control panel and side screens, imagine the kind of animation you could do for every game. Example Golden Axe your control panel could be a row of medieval hunts that are all on fire with the smoke billing off and the side panels could be a barbarian chopping off heads and throwing them off to the side. For Pac Man you could have a baseball sized pac man make its way across your control panel up the bezel and around to the side panels with ghosts doing the same thing in endless loops. Basically you could be as creative as you want it to be. There would need to be some kind of screen display software that connects them all together and would allow you to render your graphics as one piece but also show you what it looks like when it is set up as an arcade cabinet… I don't know. It would also need to let you put values to scale each screen piece individually. |
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