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Title: Midway Arcade Cabinet LCD advice
Post by: one8seven on January 04, 2012, 11:44:41 am
Hi all,

My second Wells Gardner just died on me and I'm thinking of building an LCD monitor into my Midway MK4 cabinet.
I found this on the net http://www.trmk.org/news/18683/trmks_mortal_kombat_2011_launch_day_coverage.html (http://www.trmk.org/news/18683/trmks_mortal_kombat_2011_launch_day_coverage.html) but when I lookup the sizes of the asus monitor it seems that it's too big for my cab  ???

Do you have any suggestions for a good price/quality monitor that fit's my Midway cabinet?

Thanks in advance,

one8seven
Title: Re: Midway Arcade Cabinet LCD advice
Post by: one8seven on January 04, 2012, 12:01:46 pm
Fyi : My cab is converted to MAME
Title: Re: Midway Arcade Cabinet LCD advice
Post by: GregD on January 04, 2012, 12:36:29 pm
Asus makes a 25" monitor int hat same family.  It is the VE258Q.
Title: Re: Midway Arcade Cabinet LCD advice
Post by: one8seven on January 04, 2012, 02:47:01 pm
Thanks for the info! Anyone arround here who has this monitor in his cab?
Title: Re: Midway Arcade Cabinet LCD advice
Post by: one8seven on January 05, 2012, 06:34:24 am
Can somebody tell me if there is a difference in the size of Mortal Kombat 4 cabinets vs 3-2-1? (or maybe American and Europe cabs??)

I found a lot of people who build in 26/27 inch monitors to their Midway cabinets, but when I look at the dimensions they just not fit into my cab...
And of course I want to build in the biggest monitor possible  :P
Example of MK 2 with 26 inch monitor : http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=113963.msg1226381#msg1226381 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=113963.msg1226381#msg1226381)

Sorry for all the questions folks, but I'm kinda stuck here...
Title: Re: Midway Arcade Cabinet LCD advice
Post by: GregD on January 05, 2012, 09:19:19 am
What is the inside dimension of your cabinet?  Are you looking for the biggest widescreen lcd monitor or the biggest 4:3 lcd monitor?  You will need to go to at least a 24" widescreen to get the same vertical resolution as found on a 20" 4:3 monitor.
Title: Re: Midway Arcade Cabinet LCD advice
Post by: one8seven on January 05, 2012, 11:51:26 am
It's 63,5 wide, so the LG might just fit in it... If you look at the MK 2 (see previous link) it seems like its a bith wider.
A big 4:3 LCD would be nice but isn't really necessary. I just want to go as big as possible with good quality (MAME) of course