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loffer:
Hi!
I have got an old rather small cabinet, that I plan to get a new monitor for. It is only 49cm width , 19,5”. My option for a LCD is 22” or to put a 32” vertically. Or do I have any other options maybe? Which is best for a MAME cabinet?
BadMouth:
22" is perfect in one orientation or the other, but if mounted horizontally the vertical games will feel small and vice versa. If the cabinet is small, then it might not feel too awkward.
If there is room for the 22" to rotate, that could be the best of both worlds but will require some configuration if you want the rotation automated. https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,51.0.html
If you are only running MAME the 32" mounted vertically would look nice for games of both orientations and will also display the bezel artwork, but you might run into issues getting other emulators that aren't as flexible to play nice. I haven't gone this route, so do not know what all is involved outside of MAME. It is pretty straightforward to set MAME up to work with this.
Others have done this so hopefully they will chime in.
loffer:
Thanks, I appreciate your input!
mixlplex:
I've never tried it, so I'm posting this as caveat emptor (or whatever the appropriate phrase would be for something that's free) but there's this if you decide to run a vertical monitor: https://www.verticalarcade.com/
javeryh:
I've got a 19.5" wide cabinet and I used a 17" 4:3 monitor in vertical orientation and it looks huge. I would definitely go 4:3 (or 3:4) and not 16:9.