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Cocktail for first cab.... too hard?
ericball:
--- Quote from: javeryh on October 18, 2004, 09:31:48 am ---I think I'm going to go for it but I am really nervous about the monitor. I'm not even sure how to remove it from it's casing (although I'm sure if I actually tried I could do it). What particularly worries me though is once the monitor is caseless, isn't there a risk of a fire or a short or a power surge or something? I keep reading that this is very dangerous.
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The guys on the Monitor forum can probably answer your concerns better. The risks (assuming you use some common sense) are minimal.
Tiger-Heli:
Also, if you saw the whammocade -
One of the best things about a cocktail cabinet (other than that the wife is more likely to approve one) is that since you can sit on any side of it, you can use MAME's screen rotation commands and play either vertical or horizontal monitor games full screen without building a rotating monitor or two cabs. Just make an additional CP on the long face of the cocktail.
whammoed:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on October 18, 2004, 03:33:56 pm ---Also, if you saw the whammocade -
One of the best things about a cocktail cabinet (other than that the wife is more likely to approve one) is that since you can sit on any side of it, you can use MAME's screen rotation commands and play either vertical or horizontal monitor games full screen without building a rotating monitor or two cabs. Just make an additional CP on the long face of the cocktail.
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Yes, that was a big plus for me. That reminds me, I still have some third panels for sale here:
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=22491
currygoat11:
be sure to check out http://www.pharaohweb.com/pacman/pacman.html
I'm building something very similar. The site has info about where to get pre-cutout cabinet kits which is what I did and am currently in the process of assembling the thing.
currygoat
Tilzs:
I think the hardest part is mounting the monitor. One thing that I didn't do but if I was going to do it over again I'd probably do is an arcade monitor. An arcade monitor I think is a lot easier to mount in a cocktail than a computer monitor because it's designed to be mounted without a case. This way you don't need to worry about what happens when you remove the case.
I didn't use an arcade monitor in my cocktail because I thought the price of one new was too high compared to a computer monitor I had laying around. I do know now however that if one is patient enough you can pick up a decent used arcade monitor for a very reasonable price.
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