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can running vertical games on a horiz. monitor for to long damage it ?
markrvp:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 15, 2006, 06:23:40 am ---You're a Newbee talking complete and utter rubbish.....
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Julian I've noticed you tend to be pretty arrogant here and I would encourage you to think before you type. It's not like you have thousands of posts and years of participation. Your post above does nothing to foster a sense of community and encourage participation. It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable and I hope you will try and work on that. Nobody likes a bully, even one in cyberspace.
Running vertical games on a horizontal monitor is not any more dangerous that running full-screen games. Burn comes when the same "BRIGHT" thing is displayed constantly. Take Pacman for example. If you see a Pacman monitor with burn-in, the burn you see is from the bright blue maze and bright white dots, not the black area where nothing is displayed. The maze and black areas never change, yet the maze is the pattern you see burned. The other thing you typically see burned-in in arcade monitors is the "Player 1" "Player 2" and "High Score" text which is typically WHITE (as in bright, not black).
Assuming that different games will be running (i.e. the same thing is not always in the same place) the original poster shouldn't be concerned about visible screen-burn from vertical games for a very long time.
rdmustang:
Fozzy was right in his first post but d123456 is right also.
d123456 claimed that running vertical on a horizontal monitor is no more dangerous than running horizontal games (before Fozzy said he was an idiot without actually paying attention to what he was saying).
It doesn't matter if you run vertical or horizontal. Either way you need the screen to change to prevent burn-in. The black areas on the vertical will not be affected because as markrvp mentioned it's mainly bright areas that will burn in.
So just make sure ALL non-black areas (actual black, not just dark gray areas) of the screen change.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: markrvp on February 15, 2006, 08:53:43 am ---
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on February 15, 2006, 06:23:40 am ---You're a Newbee talking complete and utter rubbish.....
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Julian I've noticed you tend to be pretty arrogant here and I would encourage you to think before you type.
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Yes.. perhaps it was a bit of a snappy response.... But the fact remains that it's NOT safer to run a vertical game which is what the newb was claiming as a fact.
As you clearly understand, any time a monitor is in use for anything at all the phosphors are burning away. If the original poster is leaving a vertical game running all day every day, when the cabinet isn't being used then he's going to burn the centre of the screen in just a few months.
Let me give you an example... I run a lot of arcade monitors every day, that's the nature of maintaining an arcade. One of the machines running is 18 Wheeler. Now that actually has pretty constantly changing graphics on the attract screen. But has the words 18 Wheeler displayed for about 15 seconds in each 50 or so second loop of changing graphics.... I'm currently changing out that monitor after just a year! Becuse it has the words 18 Wheeler pretty badly burnt into it.
--- Quote from: rdmustang on February 15, 2006, 09:01:20 am ---Fozzy was right in his first post but d123456 is right also.
d123456 claimed that running vertical on a horizontal monitor is no more dangerous than running horizontal games (before Fozzy said he was an idiot without actually paying attention to what he was saying).
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NO! That's NOT what he said! He said running a vertical game was SAFER! than running a horizontal game and there was less chance of screen burn because less screen was being used. Which is clearly rubbish. So perhaps you need to pay attention to what he was saying.
And I'll also thank you not to put words in my mouth... I didn't call him "an idiot" those are your words. I did tell him he was talking complete rubbish, and I stand by that.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
MYX:
Never mind Fozzy, he is really a nice guy under those pointy spikes. Generally good information with a little sharpness. ;)
We actually have something in comon. Waka Waka Waka. Sorry, just thought of that. :P
nostrebor:
--- Quote from: rlemmon on February 14, 2006, 10:16:41 pm ---Hi. I am wandering about running vertical games on a horizontal monitor.
Since you have the black areas on the sides and there is no screen saver running if it could damage your monitor after a while. I leave my Mame machine running all day and turn it off at night.
Thanks
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To get back to the op's question ::) Running MAME in either configuration will not screen burn your monitor unless you are running the same image in the same position for long periods of time.
Just make sure that you have a frontend that goes into screensaver mode, with a large variety of changing or moving images. The less you allow the same image to appear in the same spot (18 wheeler was used as an example) the longer it will take to get burn. If you are running a full set of snaps of several hundred diffent images (typical to a MAME build) you should not see burn for a very long time.
(nostrebor - Provider of simple, direct, no-bash answers since 2004.) :P