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Using 2 Cabinets for 4 Player Games
Tomodachi:
I just recently had this thought, but I don't know if it will work. I'm trying to avoid a 4 player frankenpanel. If I had 2 2-player cabinets, would it be possible to rig up everything so I could play a 4 player game using both cabinets? I don't know how practical this would be. I would obviously need some sort of VGA signal splitter so both cabinet A and cabinet B screens would display the game. Then I would have to make sure I had the controls from cabinet B also wired to the PC in cabinet A.
Sorry if this sounds confusing. Would this work? ??? I want to still be able to use both cabinets individually, but have the option of using both to play a 4 player game. Am I missing any possible problems?
Zeppo:
Yeah, that should work.
Like you say, you just need to figure out the wiring.
Back when I used to work at Dynamo, I talked to some of the design engineers, and I wanted to suggest a cabinet I designed, but they told me it wasn't really marketable or feasible.
For some fighting games, I designed a two-player cabinet which was basically two single-player cabinets back to back so that the players stood on opposite sides of the cabinet and couldn't see what the other person was doing, and couldn't interfere.
This was back in '92 or '93 when Street Fighter was huge and we were rolling out about 300 of those a day.
During lunch or anytime we had a chance, we would have competitions, and some got really heated where we were pushing each other, or hitting the other guy's controls to make him mess up.
All in good fun, of course.
Loki:
Aren't candy cabs used like that sometimes?
Arcades R Fun:
An intersting idea.
How about make the smallest 4 player you can 40-44" and then make the widest cabinet possible 34"+ and then the panel will only overhang the sides by about 3-5".
Then the panel will look like it belongs on the cab.
Of course the whole purpose of this is so you can fit a huge 32" LCD or 33" arcade monitor in the cabinet! ;D
Tomodachi:
Ok, a question regarding splitting the VGA signal. I haven't looked into this yet, but is it simply getting a "splitter" like with coaxial or video? Or is there more to it, like needing to ...I don't know....amplify the signal/power because of it being sent to 2 monitors?
Hmm...I just did a search for VGA splitters, here is one of the sites: http://www.kvms.com/2-port-vga-splitter.asp
So I guess it isn't just a matter of a simple splitter? :dunno