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So I've got this Cyberball cabinet... (dual monitors & MAME)
driph:
[At this point, this is purely speculation and rumination]
I own a fairly beat up dual-screen Cyberball cabinet, and have been considering the idea of turning it into a MAME cab for several years. Has anyone done something similar? I've spent more time than I'd like to admit over the last week or two catching up on the boards, and as yet I haven't come across any dual screen/vs cabinets.
Now the only way to make this worth it would be to allow players to game with or versus each other on the two monitors. Either by mirroring, supporting dual monitor games(ie how Cyberball works), or LAN vs play via two MAME boxes. Independant play on either monitor could be a nice secondary benefit, as well.
I've seen mentions of MAME branches with dual monitor support, and I've seen a couple dead-in-the-water network support projects, but there's nothing up to date or in current development that I'm aware of.
Still, there are a ton of possibilities for a cabinet of this design, and I think it'd be a hell of a project.
Any suggestions or recommendations?
dmsuchy:
I would rotate one monitor and have a verticle and horizontal cab all in one.
ahofle:
Wow, that would be cool to have two monitors and two control panels hooked up to the same MAME machine. I'm not sure how you'd be able to have the monitors showing independently of each other (different games of different views of the same game) unless you just had two networked computers inside. Let us know what you end up doing.
RayB:
Tough choice. What's your budget? Obviously two computers = more costly. (Two computers, two keyboard encoders, two ArcadeVGA cards...)
For simplicity the mirroring the same image to both monitors sounds cool enough. You get room to have a wide variety of controls without a frankenpanel, and as stated already, one monitor could be vertical.
Only down side to that (one monitor rotated) is you couldn't have VS play on seperate screens.
driph:
I wouldnt have a problem building two PCs for the cab..figure it'd be worth the extra money for a better gaming experience.
I'd love to have the option of two screen vs play, if only to at least keep the original functionality of the Cyberball cabinet. I'm guessing that would require dual monitor support within MAME so it pushes the two monitor images across both monitors(rather than squishing both views into one monitor as I believe it does now).
I'm not sure how the hacked netplay versions solved the dual screen issue..