Got my arcade monitor today!! All I can say is this thing weights a TON. Well actually the packaging says 92lbs, but damn I can't lift it by myself. I had to cut open the side of the box to drag it out. I got it all set up where it's going to stay until the cabinet is done. To see pictures of the box and the unwrapping, check here.

Then I decided to put the computer downstairs and plop my ArcadeVGA card into it and try this whole thing out. Installed everything I needed and rebooted windows. Immediately the screen looked good! Then I tried out MAME. Wow. It's an arcade monitor alright. The only issue was that the different games were off kilter a bit. I was told to use something called SmoothMAME to reduce stuttering that regular MAME does. So I tried it. Even better! Now everything is centered properly. The only issue now is that vertical games (Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, etc) need to use hardware stretch to display properly. This wouldn't concern me normally but it seems in the Windows version of MAME you can't turn off anti-aliasing when the screen is stretched. This is fine for computers, it looks better, but on an arcade monitor it makes it look a little blurry. So I need to figure out if I can turn that "feature" off. If not, I may have to see if I can get regular MAME to center properly. A lot of tweaking to be done, but when it looks good, it looks great. Check out SF2: