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headkaze:
I don't see the problem with the black bars down the side of a widescreen LCD when playing at the correct aspect ratio. You should be playing in a dark room full of smoke anyway, and the black bars are hardly noticable.

I'm curious will there be a "Zombie cocktail"?
zombie_arcades:

--- Quote from: headkaze on May 29, 2008, 07:35:23 am ---I'm curious will there be a "Zombie cocktail"?

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No "zombie cocktail". I'm going to focus on upgrades and new upright models.
Haze:

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--- Quote from: Level42 on May 27, 2008, 07:09:41 am ---The wide-screen LCD. I don't like LCD's for classic games, but I can understand why you chose it. But why a wide-screen ?

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probably the best point made here.

MAME supports *2* games with widescreen mode.  Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, and Virtua Racing.

NONE of the other games supported in MAME are designed to be rendered at widescreen.

Arcades, until very recently didn't have wide-screen monitors at all.  Your pictures show Street Fighter 2 stretched to widescreen.  It *isn't* a widescreen game, and was never designed to be.



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I agree with your point. However, you are thinking from an arcade purist point of view. My target market do not care if SF2 isn't meant to be played in widescreen. They want a big screen, quality craftsmanship, quality components and lots of games. The biggest screen I could find (within reason) was a 24" wide. The biggest 4:3 is 19".

Having said that, SF2 looks darn good in widescreen  ;D

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who are your target?

MAME is explicitly not for commercial use, so you can't sell it, or use it in a commerical environment (keep that in mind)

the price is prohibitive for a general purpose family entertainment machine

so your target is going to be arcade enthusiasts who want a machine at home and are going to care _very_ much if the games they're running are stretched to unnatural sizes.

if you like fat chicks, then sure, SF2 in widescreen with an obese Chun-li might be for you.. but otherwise?
leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Haze on May 29, 2008, 09:12:06 am ---who are your target?

MAME is explicitly not for commercial use, so you can't sell it, or use it in a commerical environment (keep that in mind)

the price is prohibitive for a general purpose family entertainment machine

so your target is going to be arcade enthusiasts who want a machine at home and are going to care _very_ much if the games they're running are stretched to unnatural sizes.

if you like fat chicks, then sure, SF2 in widescreen with an obese Chun-li might be for you.. but otherwise?

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I agree. On their website they say:
We prime all our Zombie arcade machines for a further installation of 4000 classic arcade and console games. That isn’t a misprint. A further 4000 all time classic games in one fantastic arcade machine! Classic gaming truly resurrected with a Zombie arcade machine. Please ask for details.

137 licensed games, primed for 3000+:
Which leads me to believe it's setup with Mame and other emulators.

I did say something about the lack of authenticity regarding the red buttons but was quickly dismissed as a "purist". I also wondered what market he was aiming for since a purist would most likely be the person interested in an expensive stand up arcade machine in the first place.

Assuming the licensing issue is all squared away, I wish him luck. My guess is this is too expensive for nearly everyone and the people who do have money to spend have plenty of options at that price range.
CheffoJeffo:
First -- that is a beautiful cab.

I agree with LL and others concerning the red buttons. You may not think that your target market has kids or that kids won't be playing alone on the cab. The flaw in your argument is that your target market likely has nieces/nephews/kids of friends who will love to play when they visit. Also remember that age isn't the only factor -- the inebriated buddy is another obvious choice for inappropriate button mashing and has been known to foul-up the configuration of more than one MAME machine.

With respect to the widescreen, so long and the AR is fine, I have no objection ... but nothing is worse than a fat ChunLi ... or MsPac ...

Finally, I am not exactly enthusiastic about the pricing. I was just in the basement, looked around, saw 20 coin-op machines (and have another at the lake house). I made a mental tally and I would have to sell them all in order to purchase one of your machines.

FWIW, I think that you should set your own prices and be fairly compensated for your efforts. I understand completely that I am not your target market (for starters, I have kids) ... just pointing out the obvious discrepancies in the economics.

Oh, and for $5700, I want a freaking coin door ... or a NIB IJ4 and some change ...

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