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Malenko:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on November 02, 2010, 12:54:39 pm ---Have you figured out a way to run emulators on it?  I want to run the SNES and NES ones....

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yeah, it runs a script to rotate the desktop since the console emulators wont let me rotate like MAME does. When I exit the emu it rotates back. it was a pain but would be MUCH easier if Kega and ZSnes would allow me to rotate. But honestly I almost never play consoles on the cab, thats what the xbox runing the emulators is for on my TV

Frigo:
FWIW, I have a 36" monitor that I now wish I didn't have.

ahofle:
Very interesting Malenko.  How do the horizontal games look? Kinda hard to tell from the pictures.

severdhed:
i also agree that a monitor that size is too large for anything but a showcase cabinet.  personally i like 19" monitors for an upright cabinet, i think that even the 25/27" monitors are sometimes too big at that distance (depends on the way the cabinet is designed).  i have a 27" in my showcase and it is great at that distance...i can't imagine being any closer to it, it hurts my eyes.

although that KI cabinet with the rotated monitor looks pretty sweet

RyoriNoTetsujin:

--- Quote from: severdhed on November 02, 2010, 11:27:00 pm ---... (depends on the way the cabinet is designed) ...

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This. I had a 31" Destination in my first cab (http://quarterheaven.livejournal.com/) and no one ever complained about the size of the monitor being too big.   Maybe I just have a lot of blind friends!  :)

That said, that cab was a big ol' beast. Not nearly as much of a footprint as a true Showcase-style cab, but it was big.  My new apartment simply didn't have the space for it...  :'(  I've always thought Malenko's solution is a unique and effective one, and especially if vert games are your "thing."

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