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Brad:
I was thinking the very same thing John. It's an awesome conecpt but to what point in a cab?

Brad

Santoro:
I want to have an arcade monitor for the game and a small color LCD in the Bezel or CP displaying control or game information, this would be great for that.


--- Quote from: jcrouse on February 06, 2006, 08:18:20 pm ---I have to ask, in a practical sense, what is the big deal about this. Are we going to put two monitors in our cabinets? I must be missing something here.

John

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mccoy178:
I will be building my next cabinet very similar to the Golden Tee Live that just came out.  So I can see how this in conjunction with Johnny5 and other features that utilize dual monitors could be really cool.

Brad:
Hmm yes for that sort of concept I can agree. It would be cool to have a function similiar to this. I wouldn't do it but cool nonetheless.

Brad

Howard_Casto:
I'm mounting a 5 inch psone lcd underneath my marquee (folds up when not in use). 

I'm also writing managment software for the second screen to display stuff like j5, scoreboards for daphne games, the visual pinball dmd display, instruction cards, ect on the secondary monitor.    This find just means I don't have to hack mame to get the dual monitor games displayed properly.  I don't think it's practical to put two full-sized monitors in a cab you are building from scratch. 

On the other hand.......


If you decide to mame a punchout, play choice 10, mega tech, mega play, nintendo vs deluxe, or xmen 6 player cab, it's nice to know that the second monitor isn't going to set there like a bump on a log.  I could also see future benefits to this trick.  Imagine one of those games with the network linukup emulating 3 or 4 units placed in 4 mame cockpits linked by monitor and control cables. 

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