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So I've got this Cyberball cabinet... (dual monitors & MAME)
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driph:
Did a bit more digging around. From a TwinGalaxies discussion on Punch Out, I found an interesting thread where they talk about dual monitor games and MAME.

Here are the related bits:



--- Quote ---TW, something cool that I recently found out while asking around at the MAME forum:

My question was this:


--- Quote ---Punch-Out!! and Super Punch-Out!! had dual monitors in the arcade with the gameplay on the bottom monitor and the damage meter and other game information on the top monitor. In MAME this is of course combined into one image. Is there any way to split it back up into two monitors assuming you have a machine with two video cards and two monitors?

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After much speculation, debate and flat-out "no" responses, someone suggested that a dual head card such as the GeForce 5700 series could do that with the special drivers that accompany the card. One of them offered to try it out and this was his response:


--- Quote ---Hi,

As promised, here are the results of my experiment with 2 monitors and Punchout! at your request.

Equipment: GeForce 5700 with dual monitor output, 2 monitors of course.

Drivers; latest Nvidia driver along with Nview monitor utility also provided by Nvidia at no charge.

MAME32 for Windows v0.85, Punchout! ROM set

Directions: configure the NView utlity to use your monitors in a "vertical span" configuration. This has the effect of taking two monitors that are for example running at 1024x768 and creating one virtual monitor running at 1024x1536. As far as the video driver is concerned, this becomes one of several new video modes available to choose from. MAME32 sees the same video modes the Nvidia driver is making available to the OS, so for Punchout, I chose a full-screen mode, 1024x1536 resolution. The results look fantastic and quite frankly, I'm amazed it works so incredibly well.

Since it sounds like you're a huge Punchout! fan, you will probably be quite happy with this configuration.

Cheers!

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He also said:


--- Quote ---Hi again,

I was fooling around with the NView utility and found something potentially very useful. If you're planning on using your desktop PC as your Punchout! platform in addition to using it as a productivity PC, the Vertical Span mode won't be very useful to you much of the time compared to Dual Display mode. The NView utility will allow you to set up the monitors the way you like, then save that configuration as a profile. I called my profile "Windows Productivity." Then I set up the monitors in the Vertical Span mode and saved another profile, calling it "Punchout!" I went from one profile to the other quite easily and with way less effort than would be the case if I did it manually each time.

Anyway, enjoy! I could actually see buying a defunct Punchout! machine and dropping in a cheap motherboard along with this video card and a pair of low-end VGA CRTs to make the machine infinitely more reliable than it probably was before. I wonder how my wife would feel about that...

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So basically, with the right hardware and possibly a little scripting, I'm thinking this is entirely doable.

Standard games would be mirrored, and dual monitor versus games(however few there may be) would be spanned across the two monitors. Basic Cyberball functionality retained while enabling MAME usage as well.   :)
Kremmit:
That's the same info that was in the thread I linked to a few posts up.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41788.0
driph:
Ah, hell, and I thought I'd found something new.
Kremmit:
Just off the top of my head:

Punch Out
Super Punch Out
Playchoice 10 (was there anything that matters on the 2nd screen?
Run & Gun
Cyberball
Cyberball 2072
Tournament Cyberball 2072
Cybersled
lots of recent-year driving games that aren't emulated yet
6 player X-Men

That's all I can think of..

dfmaverick:

--- Quote from: Kremmit on January 05, 2006, 01:26:16 am ---Just off the top of my head:

Punch Out
Super Punch Out
Playchoice 10 (was there anything that matters on the 2nd screen?
Run & Gun
Cyberball
Cyberball 2072
Tournament Cyberball 2072
Cybersled
lots of recent-year driving games that aren't emulated yet
6 player X-Men

That's all I can think of..



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vs. baseball
vs. tennis
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