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Black Friday Sales: Who is going to try the Vertical LCD Based Arcade?
JimmyU:
--- Quote ---This is what I was wondering myself. The artwork system was brought up the last time this was discussed, so one has to wonder whether specific artwork, in conjunction with pre-scaling will be able to get the job done. I'm not well-versed enough in how the artwork system works to know at this moment in time.
Anyone know more about this or have some resources to share on the subject?
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Mr. Do from the MAME team would know better than anyone. I think he has an account on this forum or you could contact on the mameworld.info forums.
ahofle:
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--- Quote from: ahofle on November 20, 2007, 03:31:52 pm ---Sounds very interesting, but can you even do what you're suggesting anymore with MAME? With the removal of the so called 'clean stretch' from MAME, I didn't think it was possible to use multiples of the game resolution + black borders for the remainder without any 'stretching'.
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This is what I was wondering myself. The artwork system was brought up the last time this was discussed, so one has to wonder whether specific artwork, in conjunction with pre-scaling will be able to get the job done. I'm not well-versed enough in how the artwork system works to know at this moment in time.
Anyone know more about this or have some resources to share on the subject?
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"wpcmame" from these boards would actually know. He created a 'clean stretch patch' for MAME's D3D mode which was rejected by mamedev for whatever reason. I'm not sure if he views the boards enough to see this though. I have still been meaning to get around to trying out his patch. See this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=56050.0
and:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70539.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=67622.0
I personally hope that someday MAMEDEV will incorporate something similar to this patch in the official build.
leapinlew:
Here is a previous discussion we had on the topic:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70626.0
Mr. Do replied in there. I'm still thinking Tempest is the best cabinet choice for this, or something with a sleek sloped back shape like that.
brandon:
well.. if you slant the monitor back.. Like in a pacman.. then the "marquee" area of the monitor is going to be in a weird spot.. I would say you should mount the monitor straight up and down. you could place the speakers directly under the monitor.
ark_ader:
I would like to see a serious Pinmame attempt with the type of display as discussed.
Using such a big screen with mame would ruin the experience IMHO.
I always thought arcade cabs were personal one on one.
With a 42" you would lose that unless it was a virtual fighter game type scenario.