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Visitor Q:

--- Quote from: Franco B on October 21, 2008, 08:38:30 am ---Im planning on connecting my cocktail to my large LCD for a couple of reasons.

a) So I can use the LCD as a big display for playing games, either MAME, emulated console or X360/XBLA games (via hacked 360 pads) using the cocktail as a kind of mobile CP.

b) In cocktail mode I can use the video out and display it on the big screen so everyone else can see the action at parties etc.

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I see what you are saying...

I am just thinking in the way of be able to use the same PC for console games and not have to sit at my cab to play them, along the same lines here.

vputz:
I have my CP on a trunk, connected to a HTPC which is also my DVD player, jukebox, etc.  For some games I do use wireless gamepads (console emulators, MAME games with more players than my 2-player CP can handle, etc).  It's a decent combination, although eventually I may put the CP *in* the trunk with an LCD in the lid of it and a computer in the bottom for a "portable cab" (or, probably better, make a cocktail MAME for a coffee table, which may be more practical).

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