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Dual Screen Custom Cabinet Design
Dervacumen:
Has any one built a cabinet that has two monitors similar to a Nintendo VS DualSystem? I understand there would (may) be a problem outputting a different image to each monitor, but what if you simply piped the same image out to both monitors?
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Knievel:
I thought of doing something like this around a telepost in my basement, using an LCD monitor on either side though. 2 CRT monitors is going to make for a pretty thick cabinet, unless you stack them.
Maybe make one side a sit-down/kid-friendly height?
elvis:
The way MAME in particular spits out dual-monitor images makes it very easy to set up with Nvidia's "Span" mode under Nview.
Set up your system as Nview Span (don't use Windows' native multi-screen management). Tell MAME to ignore aspect ratio (or force your aspect ratio to 8:3 or 4:6 rather than 4:3), and always stretch to the full extents of the screen. Then fire up any dual-screen game, and watch it stretch neatly across two monitors.
"Span" mode treats your two displays as one giant display, removing the need to tell MAME you have two monitors at all!
Nview will let you set left/right monitors. I can't remember if it will set top/bottom monitors. If not, Ultramon certainly will.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
In X-Windows (Linux/UNIX/BSD) you can use th Xinerama extension which uses plain english config files to set that up (eg: "Monitor0 leftof Monitor1" etc).
Dervacumen:
I hadn't really thought of stacking the monitors to make the cabinet smaller.
mcdo15:
this was my plan to do this at first but it would of been to big for you. i was gonna do 2 seperate cpu sets up with player 1 having duel output to both tv and 2nd comp can be a dedicated just for the second screen if need be. if you do this, great..i wish i had the space for it. LCD might be a better to keep the space down, then you can have more of an angle but LCD = money.