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Title: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: scoddie007 on February 02, 2007, 08:40:52 pm

I was in Costco the other day and seen all there monitors were hooked up to a monitor signal splitter and thought it would be cool if I had 2 extra monitors to create a double sided 4 player cabinet.

Title: Re: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: SithMaster on February 02, 2007, 09:40:39 pm

or a 6 player xmen cab.  i cant think of many games that would need that many screens unless you make an fps cab (remember a custom doom cab in some movie or tv show).

Title: Re: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: WareWolF on February 03, 2007, 12:48:28 pm

Namco had a 3 monitor sit down racing game very similar to pole position back in the 80's.   There were a few arcades around here that had it but they didn't get much play because they were 75c or $1.00 a game when regular pole position was only 25c.

Title: Re: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: jfunk on February 03, 2007, 06:44:46 pm

Quote from: scoddie007 on February 02, 2007, 08:40:52 pm

I was in Costco the other day and seen all there monitors were hooked up to a monitor signal splitter and thought it would be cool if I had 2 extra monitors to create a double sided 4 player cabinet.

That's what I'm hoping to do to one of these after I restore the other  :)

(http://www.homearcade.us/album/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=232&g2_serialNumber=1)

Title: Re: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: SithMaster on February 03, 2007, 06:58:42 pm

for some reason i like the 1 side label.  what game er games are you going to play on them?

Title: Re: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: Unholyknight on February 03, 2007, 07:19:26 pm

The versus city cabinets are for 2 player games, each player sits on a side and gets a screen to themselves.

Title: Re: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: deadkenndys1105 on February 04, 2007, 01:30:35 am

A duel monitor would be great if you want to play 2 player games like 1942 but like smaller control pannels or don't want to be close to someone.

Title: Re: Cool cabinet idea.
Post by: Dervacumen on February 04, 2007, 05:40:56 am

Quote from: scoddie007 on February 02, 2007, 08:40:52 pm

I was in Costco the other day and seen all there monitors were hooked up to a monitor signal splitter and thought it would be cool if I had 2 extra monitors to create a double sided 4 player cabinet.

I was thinking of a similar strategy a while back but when push came to shove, it was just going to be way too big.  Moving it and even finding a good spot for it would have been more than wanted to deal with.

If you have the space, I would say go for it, it would be very cool.

Here's a  link (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=40304.msg364861#msg364861) to what I was thinking.