Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: MidnightClubbed on November 02, 2010, 02:33:02 pm
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Long time viewer, first time poster.
Been planning out my cab for a while (already well underway building my second control panel prototype) and had been looking at pulling a 26 or 27" widescreen LCD in my cab. I'm not really concerned with the 'authentic' look of a crt and no-one makes big 4:3 LCD monitors unfortunately.
My current sketchup plans have the monitior mounted sideways, but after seeing the awesome KI cab with the vertical monitor I am re-considering and thinking about putting the LCD in vertically - which will be awesome for a lot of the arcade games I love.
My question is though, what options do I have for running console games? A PC will be my primary video source, but I have a number of DC and PS1/PS2 games I would like to play also (using original hardware/CDs). Does anyone have a solution for rotating their output? My only thought is to connect a capture card to the PC and rotate the image on the PC video output, but I am concerned that there will be too much lag. Anyone tried this or done something better?
Thanks
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If you're thinking about playing vertical shmups (only thing I can think of someone wanting to play on a vertical monitor with a DC/PS2), then the games will have the option to rotate within the options menu. If the game doesn't have option to Tate in a menu somewhere then I don't think it's gonna happen.
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Yeah, don't recall any console games with that option.
I'm actually fine with playing the DC/Playstation games 'letterboxed' in the middle of the vertical screen, just hoping there's a solution to actually allow this without too much lag. My other option is to run everything emulated on the PC but I would rather not have to rely on that.
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If you PM the dude that did the KI cabinet, then he will tell you how he did it. He wrote some sort of script