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Circo:
I see the ps1 screens on ebay, not for $15, but pretty cheap.  I am trying to get an RMA to send back this other one and now after some more research I don't think this is the best way to go. 

I am debating between the ps1 screen and some other 7 - 8 inch vga displays that I have found on the net.  Some are even touch screen.  Price seems to vary between $100 to $250 on some of these screens but they have resolutions up to 1024 x 768.  At this point I may just hold off for awhile as I have alot of emumovies stuff still do be finished and I will probably get back to this when I am ready to put some serious time into the cab itself. 

I think that I am going to eventually mount it between the speakers on the cab but I am afraid that the angle will be too poor to actually see it.  Only other options that I can think of are, placing it in the marquee, or right above.
Howard_Casto:
If you are willing to spend that much then I suppose that is a way to go.  Keep something in mind though.  A touch screen on a dual display cabinet is totally useless.  That's not just my opinion btw, it's a limitation of windows. 

Example:
Let's say you want to play a game of sf2 and you have the character moves displayed on your upper screen.  While playing you touch your secondary display to scroll down.  Guess what?  You've now essentially "clicked" on another window and when mame looses focus from fullscreen it minimizes itself!  Even if it didn't your focus would now be on your secondary display and thus your primary display wouldn't have focus and your game would recive input until to clicked back on the emulator... which you can't do, because the touch screen only allows you to click within that monitor. 

The only way I've found to reliably control two displays at the same time is to have your secondary display be controlled via a joystick (not arcade stick, as in a gamepad interface).  Since a joystick's status can be detrmiend passively and nothing recieves focus when a joystick key is pressed it can be polled without interfering with your game. 


The higher res is good though, just don't bother with the touchscreen, especially if that makes the price go up. 

About the mounting.  I'm doing something similar.  What I'm doing is making my mount retractable (up into the marquee box) so it slides up and out of the way when not in use.  Lcd displays, especially smaller, cheaper ones, have a very low viewing angle, so you pretty much have to mount em in a way that you can look at em head on.  Actualy you have about 20 degrees to play with, but you get my drift.

Circo:
Retractable, wow, that's a great idea.  I am going to have to ponder that oner but that may be just the way to go.

Thanks for the thoughts on the touchscreen, that makes alot of sense.
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