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[wiesshund]

Temco Bowl is a triple screen game, but the cab also came in small, single screen and medium 2 screen models
But if one is not using 4.3 screens, it is best to have mame run it as dual side by side gapless
Same effect as triple screens, minus the CRT bezel gaps

Xmen is single screen for both the 2 and 4 player cabinets, only the 6 player can used 2 screens, and for that on a 43" TV? i would use side by side gapless

because, again, the game assumes the screen is 4.3 or 9.7 aperture, so spanning 2 16.9 screens will mean huge black gaps between pictures, which is exactly what you do not wish to see

Mind you not all multi screen cabs are multi screen panoramic

some are 2 screen mirrored heads up, so monitor size/aperture does not matter
some are 2 screen discrete heads up so again monitor size/aperture does not matter

and some of course just used the 2nd screen for data, like punch out does
and if you flip punchout vertical, and use dual over and under you dont even need the 2nd screen

PS the only light guns that i know of that actually work good are these

 

Sinden Lightgun® – The official site for the Sinden Lightgun®

[Eviljubs]

Yeah I've seen the Sinden lightguns, they're pretty awesome, but there's a few other guys now making the same type of thing.  I even saw one where I guy rigged up some legit pulse rifles:

 

 

I'm still waiting on a lightgun solution to go with as most of them right now are on backorder and all that, and are hard to get a hold of.

 

and oh yeah there's no way I'd do 2 16:9 monitors lol, that'd be horrendous.  I'd just want something large enough to accommodate those kinds of games, I wouldn't go with a 6 player cab either, but, I could run it with 6 players and have 2 on controllers if I wanted probably.  That cab seems to be pretty rare, I've only ever seen a single one in person.

[wiesshund]

the 6 player cab displays fine on a 16:9 screen at 43 inches
actually better in a way because there is not a 3 inch gap between screens

 

one of these days though, i am going to set up temco bowl on 3 22" 4:3 screens just because.
Ive put it on 3 14" screens but yea, 14" is not exactly impressive, unless you are going for the micro machines look