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| FrizzleFried:
Right now I play my horizontal games on a horizontal MAME cab and my vertical games on a vertical MAME cab. I am considering purchasing a 27" multi res monitor for the horizontal MAME enabling me to play the vertical games on it and maintain approximately the proper resolutions. If I did that I could pull the PC from the vertical MAME to use in the Driver MAME I will be working on shortly. I then would have an empty Dynamo cut-corner cab I could drop a multi-CPS2 board in to or something. This would also free up a little space in the game room. How nice do vertical games look on a multi-res horizontal monitor? |
| Ginsu Victim:
Keep things as they are, and buy a PC for the driver mame. You can build a PC so cheap these days. |
| scotthh:
The money shouldn't be an issue, as a big multi res monitor is as expensive as a PC. I have been playing vertical games on a 25" horizontal monitor. They look fine, but the horizontal ones look better: filling up the screen to the bezel. Sometimes I get the itch to build a vertical cab, which considering my project is far from done, is insane... |
| ahofle:
That's a tough decision. I think what you have is pretty much ideal. However, verticals do look terrific on a multisync, especially if you use Soft15khz which let's you add some additional custom resolutions for 300 and 320 line vertical shooters. A couple benefits I can think of using a digital multisync (I wouldn't bother with an analog one which seems to be practically all that's available these days): - medium resolution games - Arcade cabinet-friendly PC games requiring higher resolutions - keeps geometry settings between games Another thing to consider is how much longer digital multisyncs will be around. I would bet in a year or two there will be no more digital multisync CRT arcade monitors available. The D9400 is pretty much the only one left. :'( If I could afford it, I would buy one as a backup for my Betson. |
| FrizzleFried:
I was looking at this bad boy... http://www.betson.com/products/IMP-44-4070-RT |
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