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Flake:
I'm not concernced with resolution issues.  My issue is getting both horizontal and veritcal games to look good - size wise - on the same monitor in limited space.

I dont want this discussion to turn into an LCD vs. CRT debate.....because I just dont care.  LCD would be fine with me, or CRT too.  Size of games vs. limited space is the issue here.

Kevin Mullins:

--- Quote from: Flake on August 27, 2009, 09:31:37 am ---My issue is getting both horizontal and veritcal games to look good - size wise - on the same monitor in limited space.

--- End quote ---

Then you will need a much bigger monitor.
Try to imagine if you will "what would a 19" vertical mounted monitor image fit inside" ?
Somewhere around a 25" monitor.
Just depends on how close you really want it to be.

Flake:
Yea, maybe I should just scratch this idea of using this cab.  I think I could probably just find another cabinet for cheap that will do the job.  Plus then I can save this one for a day far away when I want to do a mulitwilliams restoration with an added 49-way for sinistar.

severdhed:
my 19" LCD is horizontally mounted, and i play vertical games on it.  it isn't ideal, but it works just fine.  I did however just pick up a DK cabinet that will have a vertical 19" monitor that i will use for the classics.  i will still play some vertical games on my horizontal cabinet though (anything vertical that needs an 8way stick or trackball)

at work, we have a 36" monitor, so playing vertical games on it are still gigantic. 

it is hard to get the best of both worlds, unless you have a really big monitor, or two cabinets

Flake:
I already have a mame cabinet with a 27" CRT monitor.  Everything looks good on it, horizontal and vertical.  however, I dont have the controls on the panel to properly play Tron/DOT/flight games.  This next cabinet's control panel will be built exclusively to play these games.  The issue I was wrestling with was monitor size to fit the Defender cab I have vs. being able to properly display both 19" vertical games (like Tron) and other horizontal games (DOT).  I dont want to build a mame cabinet dedicated to Tron games and then have a monitor that doesnt really display a 19" vertical game well.  That seems kinda silly.  The bottom line is I dont think cabinet will work so I'll sit on it a bit longer I suppose.  Must keep my eye out on CL now for another cabinet that will suit my purpose more effectively.

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