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| allroy1975:
k....here's what I'm thinking. Set up a PC with dual video out. One card displays FrontEnd-A with it's own mame config and the other FrontEnd-B with ITS on mame config. Set up the controls with 1 keyboard encoder and configure FE-A/MAME to use the ones on "side A" of the tent, and FE-B/MAME to use the "Side B". Both configs can share the artwork/roms folders. Just need their own configs. No 4 player TMNT.....but that's not how the original cab was anyway....... think I could use an Intel Atom to run 2 copies of a FE/MAME config with XP? |
| brock.sampson:
If you hav a single computer you should be able to feed both monitors the same video. The mame.ini has a setting for numscreens set that to 2 and it will display the same on both screens. I'm sure there are exceptions punchout come to mind right away. You should be able to put one or two player on each side. For alternating games like galaga, donkey kong, etc. You would have to make sure the 2nd player controls are set correctly. |
| allroy1975:
I'm thinking about how the "real" config allowed you to....say put an Excitebike in one side and...SMB on the other. With a dual video card setup so each side will have a totally different setup through the keyboard encoder....a player 1 and 2 and you can play a different game than the person on the other side. right? I think I like this config the best and I'm gonna go with it. Your idea would allow for 4 player TMNT but not SMB on side A and Excitebike on side B. |
| brock.sampson:
That is possible you'll need to have two seperate installations of mame. You'll need to specify in the ini or command line \\.\DISPLAY1 for side a and \\.\DISPLAY2 for side b. Worked on my computer with multiple monitors. I think you would need a computer with some serious horses to run two copies of mame at the same time. |
| Jack Burton:
Go crazy and turn it into a cab for versus fighting games ;D That's what I would do if I could get one. I'd just have to find a set of buttons that were just a little bit smaller than usual so it could accommodate six buttons. |
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