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Title: "official" direction to turn for tate/ vertical monitor?
Post by: sharpfork on September 20, 2011, 01:30:12 pm

In searching around her and the interwebs, I've seen that vertical monitor orientation/ Tate generally is a CCW rotation so the bottom of the monitor ends up on the right side.  I have seen a few rotating monitor videos what have it turn the other way.

It there an "official" or recommended direction to rotate a monitor?  I'm going to be using mostly MAME so it might not really matter but I'd like to do it the correct way in case I decide to use a Jamma board at some point.

Title: Re: "official" direction to turn for tate/ vertical monitor?
Post by: apfelanni on September 20, 2011, 04:32:37 pm

there are a couple of console games which only offer tate left ( ccw ) . arcade cabinets can flip the screen 180 deg if needed . i own a cabinet which rotates clockwise and the tube is mounted with the anode plug on the bottom .

Title: Re: "official" direction to turn for tate/ vertical monitor?
Post by: sharpfork on September 20, 2011, 07:46:08 pm

Quote from: apfelanni on September 20, 2011, 04:32:37 pm

there are a couple of console games which only offer tate left ( ccw ) . arcade cabinets can flip the screen 180 deg if needed . i own a cabinet which rotates clockwise and the tube is mounted with the anode plug on the bottom .

Thanks for the info.  So If I revert my cab back to a JAMMA board with a tate game, I should be able to rotate the pic either way?

I came across one of those console games (Raiden II PSX) that does tate left/ CCW.  I mounted my tate cab right/CW and now I'm wondering if I did it wrong.  I can get most other emus to show the picture correctly so it hasn't been an issue.  I have a somewhat MacGyver ish monitor mount and don't really want to pull it...

Title: Re: "official" direction to turn for tate/ vertical monitor?
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on September 20, 2011, 08:46:19 pm

I realize you guys are talking Jamma/arcade monitor.  Just to note for LCD 'tater purposes, check the viewing angle.  some lcd's have a bad angle to the bottom and so do best rotating counter clockwise to give the best view to P1.  iSharpfork, f you rotate an arcade monitor, post it up, love to see those done. 

Title: Re: "official" direction to turn for tate/ vertical monitor?
Post by: sharpfork on September 21, 2011, 10:28:03 pm

Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on September 20, 2011, 08:46:19 pm

iSharpfork, if you rotate an arcade monitor, post it up, love to see those done. 

I have my centipede tate at the moment with a 480i TV.   If you flip through the album, you can see how I wimped out pon a complete de-casing:
http://sharpfork.imgur.com/ramp#y4Z7E (http://sharpfork.imgur.com/ramp#y4Z7E)

I also have a Dynamo cabinet that still has the JAMMA harness so I'm researching options.  The Dynamo is super easy to rotate the monitor in.
http://i.imgur.com/pr0CN.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/pr0CN.jpg)