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mgb:
guys have always talked about playing vertical games on their horizontal monitors but I gotta be difficult and go backwards.

My cab is vertical with a 27" multisync monitor. I'm mostly interested in haveing the vertical games on it but there are a few horiz games I still wanna play and with a 27" monitor, they won't be a bad size.

I know I have to do some experimenting with resolutions but I was curious if anyone has had some experience with this and give me some tips.
I know the guy who built the deep six cabinet had done this but his writeup (on another site) just said that he took advantage of the mame overlay function in order to get artwork to fill in the areas below and above the game.

any help would be appreciated

VanillaGorilla:
There was a Killer Instinct cab on this site that did exactly that with a 27" monitor.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=97260.msg1136079#msg1136079

 What do you mean by a 'bad' size. Im guessing that you will get an image as large as will comfortably fit on you screen, wit a large black void above and below your image. Make sure to turn off resolution stretching in your ini file, you dont want to change the aspect ratio of your screnn active area. You can then turn on bezel graphics (for the games that you have graphics for, if you dont have graphics see mr. do's site on the mameworld forums) and display them in cropped format, and you will get a nice fill-in above and below the screen area. With a monitor as large as yours, you should get great horizontal gameplay, with no real sacrifice in screen size (at least with the  older games).

Malenko:
My KI2 cab (you linked to) has a 32" CRT in it, horizontal games are about 24 1/2". Using rough math a 27" Vert should yield about 20 3/4" horizontal display, so slightly bigger then a 19" horizontal

mgb:
Yeah I figured I'd get around 19" horizontals.
It'll be mostly for older games such as Ghouls and Ghosts and then maybe some other emulation like Jumpman on C64 (I gotta have my Jumpman)

mgb:
I'm using an arcadevga card. any ideas on what to do with the resolutions. I've fired some games up and there just a bit off and I can adjust for them but some games won't launch and Mala just kicks back to the main screen but all messed up looking.

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