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| teef two:
If it's possible to enlarge the size of your monitor to at least 25 inches then the problem mostly goes away. You'd mount this horizontally and your vertical games would not look so tiny. If getting a larger PC monitor is too expensive then maybe consider a TV or dedicated arcade monitor. |
| Lilwolf:
Consider rotating monitor... Look at the examples and drool... But realize that its NOT easy... I hear that rotating monitor usually takes more time then the rest of the cabinet.. I would say horizontal. Why? When horizontal games became the norm, 25" monitors where common. When most vertical games where the norm, 19" monitors where. Only exception that I can think of is vertical flyers that really can use the extra space... Of course... I play vertical flyers more then most others... Mainly because 194x games are always showing when I turn the cab on :) But I vote for rotating monitor |
| ericball:
This is for my Tempest cab which will only play those games which can be played using the original controls (LH spinner + 2 RH buttons). I want to go with a PC monitor so I can get 1600x1200 for the vector games. I am also building a 3 sided modular panel cocktail cab around an old TV for everything else. Rotating monitor is out because it has to be usable by my 4 year old son. Plus that will increase the cost, a negative on the WAF. I will be going through the game list though, just wanted to check if anyone had any logic or reasons to go the other way. |
| DYNAGOD:
i love my vertical shooters, but i also really enjoy horizontal fighters.. As an owner of a rotating monitor cab let me offer you another perspective. 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... 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) 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 :) |
| yourfatmama:
Which also gives you a good reason to build TWO cabs! ;) *Two Mames are better than one *Distract your buddy with the vert when you want to play the horiz or vice versa. *Two Mames are better than one. (oh, i said that already) *any impact on CP choices (and how it impacts having multiple/swappable CP's) |
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