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| Chemixtry:
Depending on how much space you have I would go with the nintendo design because it will occupy less space. If you have it back to back you have to have it far enough from the wall so both players can use it. I had a nintendo dual for a short time and they are a beast. Definitely mock it up to get a feel for the space and layout before you commit to building it. The monitors were crammed in there pretty tight so plan that part out. I think that the Chimera theme is an awesome idea and you could go in a lot of interesting directions. Can't wait to see where you go with this. |
| Thenasty:
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on July 21, 2005, 03:46:12 pm ---Has any one built a cabinet that has two monitors --- End quote --- AFAIK, mine is the only one that has Dual Monitors. One Vertically Mounted and on Horizontally. Check my WWW page for details. |
| Dougmeister:
Cool idea. I've been kicking a similar idea around for a few weeks now. I have a working cab w/ a 20" monitor jammed in there, and I picked up a 17" LCD a few weeks ago. Gonna go with the "side-by-side" theme. (I like "Chimera"! I was thinking more of "Two-Face" from Batman, though :police: ) ANYWAY, the dual-control panel thing will be cool, as will the dual-display. My buddy gave me the idea of splitting the video signal out to both monitors with a "Y" cable. Then if I ever add a 2nd computer, a KVM switch, and some handy wiring/switching on Control Panel B, you'd be able to toggle back and forth between 4-player mode on both screens and two separate games going on at the same time! |
| NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: Dougmeister on July 22, 2005, 03:25:21 pm ---My buddy gave me the idea of splitting the video signal out to both monitors with a "Y" cable. --- End quote --- I would just get a dual output video card. That way you could have it either mirror the main display, or use it for a larger desktop. |
| Dervacumen:
I've spent a little more time thinking about the ins and outs of the Nintendo-DS approach, and think I'm going to go for it. Using a 6" vga splitter cable I hooked up my two monitors and set them side by side (3" apart) and there was no interference, which was my main concern. I made some measurements, and though the finished cabinet will be large, since the monitors are only 19" it won't be THAT big. Then I got to thinking about the whole theme of the project, and this is where I'd like some feedback. I originally wanted the theme to be "Chimera" which is still a consideration. But I am now considering: "Fire & Ice" (Half red, half blue, with blue controls on the red side and red controls on the blue side) "Black & White" (Same concept as above but with a black light added on the white side and a white light added on the black side). This would be pretty straightforward. "Yin & Yang" (Same as "Black & White" but opens me up to a lot of neat artwork possibilities. Anyone have some other ideas, or thoughts on a theme? Thanks for the "y" cable idea. I was somewhat contrained by my videocard having TV out and VGA out. Kinda hard to hook a VGA monitor to TV out. Thanks, Derv |
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