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Nervous twitches (Trying to avoid builders remorse)
danny_galaga:
make it rotating (",)
Lilwolf:
I would take a few days before mounting it and decide.
also look at making it rotatable. It takes cutting a round board... mounting the monitor to that... Have the round board sticking out the sides by a few inch's... some wheels that the whole thing sits on (two on the bottom... and 4 or so on the back. It needs to be at a bit of an angle.
Or to spruce it up some... you want a smaller board... and attach some rope around it that comes out the sides. Then you pull the rope on the left side of the cab and it goes vertical... on the right side, and it goes horizontal.
Anyway, if you have the ability to add it now, might be worth it. You do have to degausse the monitor between rotations... so you should see if it does it automatically when you turn it on. (turn the monitor on vertical... then rotate it horizontal (and it should be screwed up) then turn it off and turn it on... and if it looks good, you have a solution... otherwise you will want to find a way to put a push button to the degausser... not sure if you can easily.
but in the end.. best of both worlds.
MYX:
It does do a degaus at start up. I do not want to have anything sticking out the sides, or ropes, or pullies. I appreciate the idea though. (This is where MYX get dumb) For me, the look of this thing is a big priority. Playability is also a big issue. But I think when I imagine the whole building experience I want to look at the cab and see a fine finished piece. I think I am going to play with MAME a little bit and try to get my resolution issues fixed and see that hoz games look like on the vert mon. and Vert games on a hoz. and see if I can live with one or the other.
Resolution issue threads
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53058.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53059.0
nullb0y:
ok so go with a horizonatal for starters.
then build a smaller but just as good cabinet for horizontal games