Vertical Cabinet

[nmd4557]

Hi All,

This has probably been asked before, so I apologize if this seems redundant.

I am planning on building or converting an existing game into a stricty vertical mame cabinet.  

First of all:
Are there any examples out there of some doing this?  I can't seem to find anything.

I was planning no using a 20" TV monitor with s video.  Would this allow for most vertical games in mame?  

Lastly,  I would like to go with the rotary joystick for ikari and some others that use that particular type of control.  Does anyone have any pros or cons with this joystick?

Thanks,

nate

[paigeoliver]

I built a strictly vertical cabinet with a 19" s-video display. Check under the project announcements forum for the "Artic Mini Mame first pics" thread.

[CitznFish]

I built a strictly vertical cabinet with a 19" s-video display. Check under the project announcements forum for the "Artic Mini Mame first pics" thread.

aren't you selling that now?

[HeadRusch]

I was going to make a "mini mame"...build it into a coctail table for where my couches are in the home theatre....I'm still perplexed about what way to orient it.

On the one hand I have a stand up MAME cab almost done.....horizontal 20" TV.  This one is suppsed to be smaller, so I'm sticking with a little 14" PC monitor I bought and an Athlon 1.5Ghz MB and stuff.....

I'm tempted to make it vertical with SNK joysticks and a Druid interface as the main sticks.....but on a vertical screen does that mean any horizontal games are squished in the center?  I know, I can consider making the horizontal games playable by doing a CP for the horizontal axis, but I was hoping to mount the controls on top of the table....and wedge the rectangle between my two couches...inlay the monitor at an angle to the two sets of controls.....

We'll see.....

Reason I am thinking of doing this is that vertical games will be WAY small on a 14" horizontal monitor.

I've got an ATI card in there, with the ATI card can you do auto-rotation of the screen so everything (including windows) runs vertically, or you can change ont he fly?