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Has anyone built a dedicated vertical PinMAME cabinet?
spystyle:
Hello from Maine,
My brother is a PinJunky from the 80's
When I was a kid he used to bring me to the arcades and either rule at Defender or funnel quarters into pinball machines.
IIR he liked PinBot allot...
Now that 19" LCD monitors can be had for $160 (both standard and widescreen available) I was thinking of building him a "coffee table" vertical pinMAME cabinet.
The cabinet itself would be very easy to build, like a scaled down pinball machine with no legs or scoreboard. With a vertical 19" LCD and a few buttons on the sides.
1. Has anyone done this? Probably yes, but I couldn't find any when searching.
2. I don't really know anything about PinMAME having only studied MAME. Would the software support the above or is it only for horizontal monitors?
3. What is the recommended CPU for this type of project?
Thanks :)
Craig
ark_ader:
I don't see the reason not to do this, as most of the modern manufacturers of graphic cards allow some sort of rotation. I do not believe pinmame has this built in but I could be wrong as there is a new verion beta out.
I could really get "into" playing Funhouse vertically. Maybe someone could write you a utility wrapper.
Let us know how you get on with your project. ;D
RandyT:
There are a few things that should be considered. You'll need a very fast LCD. IIRC, even the commercial attempt at doing this type of thing suffers from some blur (I haven't seen one myself, just saw a statement by one of the individuals involved stating that a plasma would have been better.)
For the best quality on an LCD (or any fixed resolution display) you'll want to run it at its native resolution. This means that you'll probably need a system / graphics card with some very good speed, or use a lower-res LCD panel.
And finally, each table will need to be tweaked for vertical output. Some work ok, some not so well. If he has a few favorites and doesn't wan't all of the tables to be play-ready out of the box, then it's worth taking the time to tweak them. Otherwise, he could be disappointed at all the work required to play them.
RandyT
crashwg:
I'd definitely go with a widescreen monitor for this as the aspect would be closer to a pin so they'd look more natural and/or the black bars on the sides of the pin could be smaller.
spystyle:
OK I found it, the Aussie's do it!
http://tinyurl.com/393kfo
The first image attachment is just the "playfield", that's what I had in mind.
In the second image the guy had a 13" horizontal monitor for the backglass and a 15" vertical monitor for the playfield, all in a cabinet. It's funny!
According to that thread the settings are:
Field of view = 10 (I use this for all tables)
Inclination = 18 (this varies from table to table) anything from 0 - 60.
"none" for the backdrop image in the editor (VP 6).
Cheers,
Craig
update:
Hey, the Italians have an even better one:
http://tinyurl.com/2y3nev
As seen in attachments 3 and 4
It uses "Future Pinball"
http://www.futurepinball.com/
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