impossible- horizontal to vertical?

[mmonte4]

ok, so Im an idiot.  I ordered the Mercs PCB to play in my NBA Showtime cabinet without looking at all the details.  I figured both are three buttons- itll work.  However it appears that MERCS is vertical orientation, while SHOWTIME is horizontal.  Also, SHOWTIME is medium resolution, whil MERCS is standard resolution. 
Am I going to have to sell MERCS, or is there a way I can set this up to work?

[grueinthebox]

Not unless you count physically rotating and remounting the monitor.

[arcadefever]

my friend as 2 cabs one to play horizontal game and one vertical to play shooters or games like mercs.

[mmonte4]

if i could just set up my moniter to rotate....

[clanggedin]

I believe you'll also have problems with the different monitor resolution also. I'm pretty sure you can't play Medium res games on a STD res monitor.

[mmonte4]

my question is...how can SHOWTIME be medium resolution and Wrestlefest be standard....Showtime is from 1999 and wrestlefest from 1991, it seems like showtime would have the better resolution.  I dont know. 

[SirPeale]

my question is...how can SHOWTIME be medium resolution and Wrestlefest be standard....Showtime is from 1999 and wrestlefest from 1991, it seems like showtime would have the better resolution.  I dont know. 

This whole post screams your ignorance - no offense meant.

Standard resolution is fairly low-res, including classics such as Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat or Robocop.

Medium resolution has a higher dot pitch, and includes such games as Blitz (which is switchable between standard and medium resolution, BTW (the game, not the monitor)), Crusin' USA or Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.

[RayB]

There were plenty of medium res games in the 80's. Mostly from Atari. (Toobin, 720, Super Sprint, Champ Sprint, ...)

[mmonte4]

haha...ill be the first to admit that i am very ignorant when it comes to this.  Im trying to learn all i can though, and your responses are helping me out.

[MaximRecoil]

my question is...how can SHOWTIME be medium resolution and Wrestlefest be standard....Showtime is from 1999 and wrestlefest from 1991, it seems like showtime would have the better resolution.

[SirPeale]

Dot pitch has nothing to do with resolution. Monitors designed for a higher resolution typically have a lower dot pitch, i.e. a lower diagonal distance, usually measured in millimeters, between like-colored phosphor dots, which results in a sharper image, but resolution is in no way defined by dot pitch.

You're correct.  By 'higher' I meant the more 'dots' you can fit in per inch, not a higher number.   Hey, in my head it all made sense...

[fredster]

Yeah, you can play CGA games on that monitor of yours. Your problem is it's vertical and your machine is horizontal.

It's good to have a medium resolution monitor. They are really nice because you can play about any game on them.

NBA showtime cabs have 25" monitors. If I remember there isn't an easy way to rotate them unless you feel like ripping the whole thing out and building a new monitor mounting frame.

You can look in the project pages on the main site and find a couple of projects with rotating monitors, but man, they went to a LOT of trouble to do that. One has a round mounting board with a motor

If there is room inside the cab to actually build a new frame for the monitor in that orientation you can do it.

You can't "switch" it.  It's meant to be vertical. The simplest solution is to just find another Jamma cab with a vertical mounted monitor.  Keep the PCB. All the good games are vertical anyway. Like MsPac and Galaga, Dig Dug, DK, etc.

Keep the PCB in your collection. I have over 50 pcbs (and most of them actually work

I have bought and sold well over 200 games now. I have found in games the most ingenious ways of mounting both types of monitors. "Generic" cabs made by dynamo had the monitor mounted to a wood faceplate. The faceplate was square. They had 4 bolts holding the faceplate to the cab on the sides.  The holes were equal distances apart. They had a bolt through them that went through the faceplate into a metal bracket.

So what you did was unbolt it and pull the monitor out and then rotate 90