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| murb:
I'm looking for a direction here as I am at the point of deciding if I should go vertical or horizontal. This would be my first mame machine and it is essentially a proof of concept. It will only be 1 player, a couple of buttons and I will be using a 14" monitor and either a p100 or p230. If you have a sound reason of why I should go one way or the other, please post it. |
| elvis:
I'd go vertical for 3 reaons: 1) Based on your hardware being quite slow, you'll probably be playing a majority of older titles. The vast majority of these were vertical. I'd back this up with some research: come up with a rudementry list of playable games on that hardware, and see what the majority of titles are oriented at. 2) Based on your monitor size being quite small, if you mounted it horizontally, vertical games would be squashed even smaller. As such, again I'd go vertical. 3) A single-set of controllers is still applicable to many older vertical games (pacman, frogger, etc) in which 2 players took turns on a single set of controls. Beyond all of that, which games do you prefer? A cabinet is useless to you if it only plays games you don't like. :) |
| danny_galaga:
yeah, id be inclined to say vertical. bear in mind some notable early exceptions- defender, mario, asteroids. if you really like those games its going to make it a difficult decision... |
| captainpotato:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on August 16, 2005, 02:02:29 am ---yeah, id be inclined to say vertical. bear in mind some notable early exceptions- defender, mario, asteroids. if you really like those games its going to make it a difficult decision... --- End quote --- It sounds like murb has two PCs as donors from which to choose, so I'd say make one of each ;) Seriously though, vertical is more use. If you use Vantage, even more so. |
| murb:
I have been using the deluxe search at www.mameworld.net/maws/ to filter for vertical/horizontal and it's still a difficult decision... can you believe more difficult then deciding on a control panel layout? I've tested the p230 and it's playing the classics well; I've decided it can play up to about the early 90s games. I'm a fan of vertical shooters as well as the older platform fighters which are pretty much all horizontal. There are 1694 verts and 4049 hori mame games in total. There are also many horizontal NES games that would work. But with 3 posts voting vertical, I think I'm swaying to vertical just for shooters and the other classics mentioned. I agree, 2 cabs would be better then just 1 but the next cab I make will definetly be a horizontal, multi player with a more capable computer. This 1st one is going to be very wife friendly. |
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