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inemu

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Hello.

I have a question.

I want to work with 2 monitors on my BigBox Arcade Cabinet. (ex PhotoPlay2000)
A main monitor and a backglass monitor.
On the backglass monitor (1024x768) I want to show 2 different things.
Marquee/Backglass Graphics/Videos on the Top

and DMD/Platform-Logo Graphics/Videos on the Bottom.
But the DMD should not be stretched.
The Resolutions are

Backglass: 1024x473 / DMD: 523x142

Example:

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Is there a way to set this in BigBox?

I do not want a 3rd monitor.

 

Here are some pictures how should my Arcade Cabinet look like.

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Someone help me? :)

 

 

Sry for my bad english.... i`m from Germany

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On 1/18/2023 at 3:53 PM, C-Beats said:

You'd have to manually create a marquee view file to do this, but yes it's entirely possible to do. I enjoy your cab design quite a bit though the main monitor being 4:3 for pinball I'm not sure I'd enjoy, the overall concept is pretty cool.

I don´t want to make new marquee files for all the games or tables :( thats a lot........

Yeah i know but i dont want to add a Widescreen Monitor in Vertical....

 

5 hours ago, Retrofrogg said:

I think there's a couple of plugins you can look at that do something similar to what you're asking. 

The only plugin that i found is the ThirdScreenPlugin but on this plugin i can´t edit the size and the position of the Graphics / Videos....

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20 minutes ago, inemu said:

I don´t want to make new marquee files for all the games or tables :( thats a lot........

Think you may have misunderstood. You have 2 files that need created for your entire library. The marquee view for your platform list, and the marquee view for the games list. The XAML would be pretty simple/straight forward. If you let us know what you want displayed on both monitors some one could help you make the files. If you just want two images shown it's a 5m job to do.

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14 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

Think you may have misunderstood. You have 2 files that need created for your entire library. The marquee view for your platform list, and the marquee view for the games list. The XAML would be pretty simple/straight forward. If you let us know what you want displayed on both monitors some one could help you make the files. If you just want two images shown it's a 5m job to do.

Ok yes i misunderstood sry :D

so i want to make a single Monitor that show both...

the Marquee or the banner image of the game / backglass video of the pinball table on the top

and the platform Clear-Logo of the game / DMD-Video of the pinball table underneath....

like my example

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On one single Monitor

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