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johnm160:

From the plan I am working from it looks like I am going to have about 17.5 inches from the back of the monitor board to the inside of the back wall. My 17" monitor is 16" deep so it is gonna be close, but we will find out soon enough.

I would make the cab deeper but then the side art would not fit.  :banghead:

ArtMAME:

Check it out:

http://www.classicarcadegrafix.com/sunshop/index.php?action=search

I have not dealt with them before, but I am sure other board members have. :dunno

It asks for dimensions, so you might be able to scale the cabinet up??? then you may have to go a little taller to get deeper???  Or you could specify the dimensions of the side art to go a little deeper, but not taller???  That would probably stretch the graphics a little, which may look funny.

Something else you could try would be to keep the standard dimensions, but add about 4" to the back of the cab, then paint it white, install the sideart flush with the front like normal, but you would have a 4" white stripe running along the rear edge of the cabinet. 

It may or may not look funny to you, but maybe nobody would notice ehh...  ;) , especially if you put the Tempest between two other cabinets... ;D

I just built a cab for my friend modeled after my Williams High Impact Football (HUGE Midway style cabinet), but I had to deepen it by 4 1/2 inches so I could put a 29" computer monitor in there.  It worked really well, It does not really look disproportionate at all.  Of course, it is all black with no sideart, and he did put it in a little cubby hole in the wall so only some of it sticks out from the wall.




johnm160:

I was planning on buying it from arcadeshop since it is almost half the price.
http://www.arcadeshop.com/pics/tempest-side-art.jpg

I did think about the white stripe though


ArtMAME:

Arcadeshop is great. 

I order stuff from there all the time and it gets to me the very next day :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

I am going to get some artwork for my Centipede and my Robotron from there real soon. 


torez:


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Have you ever seen a vertical game with a widescreen (or tall screen in this case) in an arcade?  I for one haven't...

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Yeah, seriously! I mean, why would you do that? While we're on the topic of what never to do - who the hell would build a cab with Windows XP and run Mame? Have you ever seen that in an arcade? I for one haven't...

 :tool:

/sarcasm off

Actually, on the new Pac-man\Galaga cabinet - that looks like a wide screen flipped on it's side: I saw one in a rest stop on the Thruway, and the screen looked much longer than the originals...

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Using a rotated widescreen to play vertical games would be totally pointless.  The games have a 4:3 aspect ratio.  Using a wider screen does nothing unless you WANT to stretch the graphics out so that Ms. Pac is oval-shaped instead of round.  If you leave the game at it's correct aspect ratio, then you'll have big empty black spaces at the top and bottom of the screen.

The new Pac/Galaga cabs have a 25" monitor, which is why it looks bigger than the 19" monitors in originals.  But it's still a standard 4:3 monitor. 

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Have a look here then:
http://mame32qa.classicgaming.gamespy.com/dell2405fpw/controller.htm

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