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paigeoliver:
Outside of real arcade monitors I would suggest the following.

Try real hard to find a 27" vga CRT monitor. If you can't find that, then the next choice is a 21" CRT monitor (easy to find and cheap, but too small for a big cabinet).

If none of that pans out, then you can always go to a modern lcd or plasma. The older games don't look so hot on them and vertical games look just terrible on them (widescreen makes them use up only like 1/3rd of the screen).

consolas:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 22, 2012, 12:55:39 am ---Outside of real arcade monitors I would suggest the following.

Try real hard to find a 27" vga CRT monitor. If you can't find that, then the next choice is a 21" CRT monitor (easy to find and cheap, but too small for a big cabinet).

If none of that pans out, then you can always go to a modern lcd or plasma. The older games don't look so hot on them and vertical games look just terrible on them (widescreen makes them use up only like 1/3rd of the screen).

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Thanks for the tips!!

Thing is, since I'm going to go with the small arcade - like the picture in the post, I think it's called bar top from what I read - I think a 19 LCD will suffice.

Lcds  are pretty much square so there will be no issues with vertical games, right?

MacGyver:
As someone who made one that comes apart, I can say it will take a lot longer to build, and weigh twice as much. Oh, it will also be much more expensive, and the measurements and cuts will need to be much more accurate.  If I lived in the States, I would have just made a normal one, hell, I would have just purchased an old one.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,121739.0.html

consolas:

--- Quote from: MacGyver on September 22, 2012, 02:10:25 am ---As someone who made one that comes apart, I can say it will take a lot longer to build, and weigh twice as much. Oh, it will also be much more expensive, and the measurements and cuts will need to be much more accurate.  If I lived in the States, I would have just made a normal one, hell, I would have just purchased an old one.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,121739.0.html

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Yeah that is out of the question

This will be a solid bar top arcade machine

I've already updated my post in the project section, thanks a bunch!

Crazy Cooter:

--- Quote from: consolas on September 22, 2012, 01:25:47 am ---Lcds  are pretty much square so there will be no issues with vertical games, right?

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Not the new ones.  Almost everything is widescreen.

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