MAME Cabinet
January 4, 2006
Well, talking to some #llamasoft people got me thinking… I should just replace the monitor in my MAME cabinet with a real, decent sized one. So I think I’m going to see if the Vision Pro 27″ SVGA Universal Mount Monitor from Happ Controls. It’s US$349.95 for the tube, plus another $13.15 for the monitor bezel. As long as it’ll fit in my cabinet, I think I may go that route… It’d be a great, massive display which would actually accept a VGA signal.
Hrm… That really would polish off the cabinet…
put the biggest monitor you can in there. that’s the one thing people forget about when they make a mame cab. they have this converted mspac cabinet, or somesuch, awesome controls, then a 14″ monitor that isn’t even rotated, so when you play a vertical game on it, it’s effectively a 12″ monitor
get the 27. then you won’t have to worry about rotating it for games… it’d still be about the same as a 19″ unrotated, which is what most of the games were originally…
That’s what I’m thinking… I’ve only got a 17″ in there, which isn’t tiny, but it’s still not great. Problem is now I just dropped $200 at lunch. Heh. Ah well…