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horizontal or vertical ?
captainpotato:
--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on December 07, 2004, 09:58:55 am ---first , your going to need two frontends..
one for vertical and one for horizontal..for verticals your going to need a fronted like vertimame so that you can even load a game without breaking your neck.. configuring and running two frontends is a real pain...
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I disagree - I use ArcadeOS, and to rotate the menu I just hit a button (rotating the monitor is more difficult, but that's another matter...)
--- Quote ---also,each time you rotate your monitor ,your going to need to rotate a bezel with it,which for my cab at least is a pain in the rear. in addition you will need to readjust your monitors settings to accomodate the different aspect ratio, and depending on how accesible your monitor controls are, can pose a problem (if they are in the rear, you will need two people to adjust the monitor, one in the rear to tweak and one to watch in up front)
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Not if the bezel is attached to the monitor mounting disk (for want of a better name...) and the perspex over it is tinted.
--- Quote ---if i were to do it all lover again. i would likely have bought a dedicated horizontal and a dedicate vertical cab..
this way theres no need to fidjet with this and that and jump back and forth between frontends. just move two steps to the left and play cab 2 :)
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I would have loved to have done this, but space was an issue (still is...)
My biggest issue is having to turn the monitor off before rotating and then letting it sit. This is the biggest hassle, IMO.
quarterback:
--- Quote from: captainpotato on December 08, 2004, 08:13:49 am ---
--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on December 07, 2004, 09:58:55 am ---first , your going to need two frontends..
one for vertical and one for horizontal..for verticals your going to need a fronted like vertimame so that you can even load a game without breaking your neck.. configuring and running two frontends is a real pain...
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I disagree - I use ArcadeOS, and to rotate the menu I just hit a button (rotating the monitor is more difficult, but that's another matter...)
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I've been playing with MameWah and it seems pretty simple to set up both a horizontal and a vertical frontend that can be switched pretty easily. Plus I've got Pivot Pro which lets me rotate my whole windows environment with a keystroke via hotkeys
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--- Quote ---also,each time you rotate your monitor ,your going to need to rotate a bezel with it,which for my cab at least is a pain in the rear. in addition you will
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captainpotato:
--- Quote from: quarterback on December 08, 2004, 11:12:37 am ---
--- Quote from: captainpotato on December 08, 2004, 08:13:49 am ---My biggest issue is having to turn the monitor off before rotating and then letting it sit. This is the biggest hassle, IMO.
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No manual degaussing?
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Not with the size of the magnet that I have (8mm) - it's fine for smaller sections, but I'd go mad with the whole screen to do...
--- Quote ---You have any links/pics/info regarding how you set up your rotating monitor?
Thanks
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Yes, but the site's not ready, and neither's the cabinet (it is playable, but as is so common, the project has stalled at this point...)
DYNAGOD:
so mamewah can be configured to run both vertical and horizontal?
quarterback:
--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on December 09, 2004, 03:23:03 pm ---so mamewah can be configured to run both vertical and horizontal?
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Well, kinda. I use PivotPro to rotate my entire windows environment and I use a vertical layout/skin for MameWah's interface, meaning that it's 480X640 instead of 640X480 (or whatever)
I don't think that MameWah can rotate itself by itself and that you'd need to use something like Pivot or a vid card that can rotate your screen, but I could be wrong.