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REQ: Plans for upright Vertical ONLY Cab
« on: June 19, 2003, 09:12:26 am »
I'm hoping someone has a set of plans for a vertical only upright cabinet they can direct me to.  I want a 90's style simple cabinet for only like Donkey Kong / other vertical games.
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Re:REQ: Plans for upright Vertical ONLY Cab
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2003, 10:02:31 am »
I don't think the design of the cabs themselves changes much based on monitor orientation.  I would suggest finding a set of plans that you like, be it Lusid's plans or the plans at 1up's website ( www.1uparcade.com ) and if you need to adjust them to make the monitor space a little taller that should be pretty easy.  I don't think you could make the cab any narrower unless you only wanted to have a 1-player control panel.  You'll just have a monitor bezel with more space at the sides.

I would categorize Cyberpunk's plans as 90's-style, but they aren't free which make them slightly less attractive than some others...not to mention that I think that his products deserve a boycot from this community.
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Re:REQ: Plans for upright Vertical ONLY Cab
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2003, 11:19:02 am »
I'm actually ok with a one player CP.  I will be building a 2 player cabinet for horizontal games (much larger) but I wanted just a small 1 player cabinet, narrow as possible.

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Re:REQ: Plans for upright Vertical ONLY Cab
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2003, 04:46:48 am »
If your interested in narrow, check out http://minimame.com

Its a half-scale cab...only 15" wide
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Re:REQ: Plans for upright Vertical ONLY Cab
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2003, 05:38:06 am »
I'm actually ok with a one player CP.  I will be building a 2 player cabinet for horizontal games (much larger) but I wanted just a small 1 player cabinet, narrow as possible.


If you want a narrow cabinet, then examine mini cabinets, or an Atari Assault. Actually, the Assault only LOOKS narrow, it does have a full sized base at the bottom, which means it is still 24" wide, but the rest of the cabinet is only like 18".

Also, 90s style cabinets are the big ones (as are 70s style ones oddly enough, but not as big as the 90s ones). The smaller cabinets are the early 80s ones.

The vast majority of cabinets will take a monitor in either orientation. Exceptions include, Assault, many cocktail tables (especially those Atari ones that offset the vertical monitor to one side, and also those twin monitor nintendo ones), a few oddball minis, and most moving cockpit games (which obviously wouldn't be your first choice for a vertical cabinet).

If you are building one yourself, just follow plans for any of the standard 80s style cabinets, and reduce the width by 5 inches (measure your monitor first to fine tune that total, as my Assault was roughly 5 or 6 inches narrower than stock, and the monitor just barely fit, it was obviousy designed to be only as wide as the monitor).
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