jedah Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Hi all, I am in the (very) early stages of building a mame cabinet. I have been in contact with Maxime from Arcade from scratch about the HD Terminal cabinet (beautiful design). I am thinking that I would like to also eventually have a dedicated vertical cabinet. My question is does anyone know if there are any vertical orientated games that use a widescreen monitor by default? I am not sure if any of the vertical Type X games used widescreen. I can't think of any so I am guessing that I could possibly build a cabinet based around a standard (cheaper) 4:3 monitor mounted sideways. Cheers, J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAmDotorg Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I've never seen one. 4:3 monitors are not, at all, cheaper, though. New they cost a fortune today because they're mostly not made anymore. At least here in the US, you can get reasonable used IPS screens in the $100-$150US range for maybe a 19-20", but new ones are more like $400-$500 -- like 2-3x a 16:9. The only wide-screen games I've seen (horizontal) are new ones that aren't emulated yet. That may matter if you want to play PC games on your cabinet, but wide-screen just wastes a lot of space in MAME. I'm 99% sure I've never even seen a new 9:16 game before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drnick Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Hi all,I am in the (very) early stages of building a mame cabinet. I have been in contact with Maxime from Arcade from scratch about the HD Terminal cabinet (beautiful design). I am thinking that I would like to also eventually have a dedicated vertical cabinet. My question is does anyone know if there are any vertical orientated games that use a widescreen monitor by default? I am not sure if any of the vertical Type X games used widescreen. I can't think of any so I am guessing that I could possibly build a cabinet based around a standard (cheaper) 4:3 monitor mounted sideways. Cheers, J. I vote find the largest 4:3 you can get in there, 19" is easy to find, 20 and 21's are becoming like rocking horse muck. If you are southern england PM me as I have a syncmaster 213T with no stand that I am willing to let go at a very reasonable price. If you did use a widescreen you will probably want to go up to around 26" which would have a similar width to a 21" and then rock some custom bezels as you would only utilise about 3/4 of the available screen estate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedah Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Thanks for the replies chaps. i meant installing an LCD over a CRT this time. The reason being that I have had 2 jamma cabinets and 1 JVC cab and they all had screen issues so this time I am going with LCD with HLSL as I have been very pleased with the results so far. As I suspected there aren't any vertical games that require 16:9 screen so a rotated 4:3 should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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