I was talking about actual TVs. CRT monitors... but then these guys who built MAME-cabs in 1999-2002 definitely wanted to keep expenses at a minimum, so they probably prefered to use 14" monitors for their WONDERFUL NEW ARCADE MACHINE. Can't imagine that actual arcade cabs from the mid-80's cost a fortune in the late 90's / early 2000's. Why would someone choose to build a MAME cab anyway if only those lame small monitors were affordable? They don't recreate that arcade feeling... so what's the point.
That, sir, is correct. Hell, I have two very humble but very decent hand-made arcade sticks for MAME, and a couple of my friends do, in fact, play cross-handed and it annoys the FUCK out of me. Also, in a nearby small town (where I teach a couple days a week) some older cabs with pirated games have right hand sticks. The mexican-hick-town crowd does indeed play Right-Hand King of Fighters.
Most graphics cards wouldn't have had TV out and those that did would've been shit. A scan converter adds cost. I wouldn't bother either, but each to their own. Cheer up, I doubt any of them still exist
This thread was one of the last things I read last night, and I had a dream that I was looking for my aunt but instead ended up buying a miniature arcade cab, sort of like that really cool Neo Geo (this one http://hackaday.com/2009/08/09/neo-geo-mini-arcade/) that's around on the web, but with space for weird NES cartridges in the back. And when I woke up I started wondering... How feasible would it be to make a really small (like... Vectrex sized) arcade cabinet with some sort of Net-Top inside and MAME? What is the smallest CRT monitor they make? Maybe a small LCD? That would be fucking awesome! Or would it?
Hmmm what about using a screen from a handheld TV ? But I have a 14 inch CRT, which is small. But it works. So there has been made quite small CRT screens and what not. Heck you could actually ask on http://benheck.com/, if this forum is not enough.
The worlds first pocket tv by the British inventor, sir Clive used a black and white CRT that was only 2 inches across !
You Brits always have to bring in ol' Clive when you can, eh? -- The cross-handed Mexico thing is still blowing my mind. So the P2 has reversed stick-button positions, and people just get used to playing on one side or the other?? -- As for small LCD Screens, doesn't everyone just use the PSOne screen like Ben Heck?
Seth Killian, from Capcom plays Cross handed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjkUtS-uV8M&feature= skip to 4:57 he grew up in So-Cal where there was a lot of Mexican cabinets.
Darksydephil is actually quite fond of Hakan, even though the netcode is still fucking shitty on the SSF4 game.
Except it wasn't... Panasonic and Sony beat Sinclair by 13 and 2 years respectively. The latters being pocketable if you had pockets that could fit a thick paperback book and the former also having a flat CRT screen. Although the Sinclair TV80 (FTV1) was more portable and had a much nicer screen, was NTSC and PAL compatable and was a third of the price of the Sony Watchman, however it used batteries that were expensive and hard to source (although you could rip open up a polaroid film pack to steal the compatable battery...) and you could only buy it initially with sending in an order form, waitiing for the invoice and then paying that before you got it.... Casio also released their LCD pocket TV that year as well
I also realized he could have been talking about Sinclair's first pocket TV, as opposed to the first one ever.
Well, yeah. Everybody uses that screen, actually. Even the mini Neo-Geo cabinet that I was referring to. Fucking awesome thing, too. And yeah... a lot of people play crosshanded in Mexico, AND there are a lot of crosshanded cabinets. The irony here is that people that play ... um... regular-handed, I guess, have to cross their hands when we play on those bastard shit-ass backwards cabinets. Cross Handed cabinets are common in small towns (Rural Mexico, we could say), but in big cities (Like Guadalajara and Monterrey and such), cabinets are 99% the regular type - or those horrible Xbox-based pirate cabs that have actual pads bolted down to the cabinet. Now Mexico City, that's a whole other thing arcadewise. They even have those awesome big "sit down" cabinets with huge screens. Or at least, they had them last time I was there, like 5 years ago. We had like two arcades that had those, up here in GDL. I recall, though I may be mistaken (I was very, VERY high last time I saw them) that those big screen arcades were generally Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, or some King of Fighters variants.
Yeah, I have seen some people here in Monterrey that used to play like that back in the day. Some people say that they find it easier to do dragon punch and fireballs with their hands crossed. I think only Xerdo is going to get this: Axy and Spot played cross handed, too. hehe.
Sir Clive to you, fuck face. On topic: Crap Mame is one of the best displays of the internet's potential. The author even put his own cab in there.
WTF, Man! Really? Well... sounds old school mexican to me, I guess. Man, Just the other day I was seeing some of my old magazines and recalling Axy and Spot. Man, their job must have been either awesome or horrendous. But it is pretty weird that they did play cross handed.
