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Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: bubbadan on March 12, 2007, 12:10:03 pm ---2. Since the cab will be small I am wondering if I want one or two joysticks. The CP will probably be 20" wide. Will the CP be too crowded (especially with 2 players at once) for 2 joysticks?
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I think it will be too crowded. I have a 2-player SF setup on a 24-inch panel, and that works, but spacing was a bit tight. If you have three buttons per player, you have basically a SF setup, but if you can trim it to two . . .
Basically it depends on how often and what 2P Simultaneous games you might want to play.
--- Quote ---3. I'm only interested in 80s era arcade games. 90% of the games I want to play are vertical, so my plan right now is for a vertical monitor. However, there are a few favs (Joust, Karnov) that I really want as well. My monitor is a 17" PC monitor. I've seen some people with rotating monitors. How much of a pain is that and is it worth it?
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IMHO, setting up a rotating monitor in a small cabinet you are building in-site, would be pretty complicated. A rotating LCD would be simpler, but if a trackball is out of your price-range . . .
Personally, I have a 17-inch PC monitor (no cab-though) and use it horizontally - although vertical games would look better rotated. (I've tried it with them rotated and sideways and they look better).
I recommend trying all the options with the current monitor and see which options you can like with vs. the number of games you will play on it.
IOW, leave the monitor horizontal -
MAME 1942 = Letterboxed on sides, but playable.
MAME 1942 -rol = Sideways but looks good
MAME joust = Correct and looks good
MAME joust -rol = badly letterboxed top and bottom.
If you think you won't play joust real often and can live with the letterboxing, put the monitor vertical.
If you can't stand joust but can live with 1942 letterboxed, put the monitor horizontal.
King Friday XIII:
Thank you for all of the replies!
I may reconsider the size of my cab. I really want a 2 player machine for Joust. What would be the minimum width for a 2 player CP?
I'm still thinking about rotating the monitor. I'll have to see how ambitious I get.
So many decisions....
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: bubbadan on March 12, 2007, 08:54:30 pm ---I may reconsider the size of my cab. I really want a 2 player machine for Joust. What would be the minimum width for a 2 player CP?
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It CAN be done. See the image and word file below from when I was planning my panel. (The Word file might not convert properly, so I left a screenshot also. This was supposed to be on a 22-inch box with 3/4-inch wood for the sides, so 20.5 inches wide for the middle part. Note that I was using the GGG Prodigy joysticks which I think have a 5-inch square base plate, so with standard joys, you could tighten it up more.
Also, though, note that for the final design, we added two more inches to the width for a total of 24 inches and that was still a bit tight - works well, but . . .
As I said earlier, your big questions are "Do you need three buttons wide per player (Gunsmoke, Ajax) or can you get by with 2 each?" and "How much do you want to compromise your design for one game (Joust) that you might not even play that much?" (I went through a similar thing with trying to support 4-button Neo-Geo games that I never play).
--- Quote ---I'm still thinking about rotating the monitor. I'll have to see how ambitious I get.
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FWIW, I played around with the different settings on my PC last night. 1942 looks really good on a vertical 17-inch screen. It looks okay on a horizontal. Joust looks okay on a horizontal and tiny on a vertical (like playing on a 14-inch horizontal monitor).
If it were me, though, if you didn't want a rotating setup, for the number of vertical games compared to the number of horizontal, I would mount the monitor vertically.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: am_monkee on March 12, 2007, 12:57:29 pm ---also-why not try a cocktail cabinet? good for small spaces. throw in a stool and you're set.
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Maybe I missed something here, but cocktails typically take more floorspace than an upright.
Cheers.
am_monkee:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 13, 2007, 08:07:57 am ---
--- Quote from: am_monkee on March 12, 2007, 12:57:29 pm ---also-why not try a cocktail cabinet? good for small spaces. throw in a stool and you're set.
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Maybe I missed something here, but cocktails typically take more floorspace than an upright.
Cheers.
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floor space, yes, but actual space, no. i was thinking if he had a small room, a cocktail would seem less imposing than a 6 or 7 ft. upright. though, i guess this argument makes less sense w/ a cabaret involved...
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