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Well Fed Games:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 27, 2012, 11:29:27 am ---

Best way to build a project you will be unhappy with is to overspend on the computer, hack some gamepads and then underspend on the display.

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Well, the gamepads were $20, and the TV is going to be the monitor... I can never find anything with a VGA input that is bigger than 19" around here, unless it is widescreen, which I don't want to do. I'm not worried about being unhappy with the build.

So, I appreciate the critiques, but anybody have suggestions for a good motherboard/graphics card for my needs? It seems like component out is becoming more rare (and it is hard to tell online which ones have it and which don't), want to grab a good card for it while I can.

paigeoliver:

Ok, I appreciate your ideas. They are very common beginner ideas.

I have built about around 40 of these things. I approached my earliest projects the same way you did, and they ended up being junk. Spent hours and hours hacking a pair of gamepads that cost (together) more than an encoder would, only to have to rip the whole thing apart because windows doesn't consistently assign the same pad to the same position on reboot. I have hooked games up to TV sets only to have them look terrible and eventually be pulled out of the cabinet. I have overspent on computers that gave no better results than the $40 boxes at the used PC store down the road.

HaRuMaN:

Just build a regular PC with VGA, and get one of these?

http://www.amazon.com/Pyle-PYPBV760-Component-Video-Converter/dp/B0038AER8K



Malenko:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on February 27, 2012, 11:46:28 am ---Ok, I appreciate your ideas. They are very common beginner ideas.

I have built about around 40 of these things. I approached my earliest projects the same way you did, and they ended up being junk. Spent hours and hours hacking a pair of gamepads that cost (together) more than an encoder would, only to have to rip the whole thing apart because windows doesn't consistently assign the same pad to the same position on reboot. I have hooked games up to TV sets only to have them look terrible and eventually be pulled out of the cabinet. I have overspent on computers that gave no better results than the $40 boxes at the used PC store down the road.

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Welcome back Chad!

paigeoliver:

That is the opposite thing of what he needs. Looks like you plug component into that one and it outputs VGA.

Happ controls still makes 27" CRT monitors with 4/3 aspect ratios. Both VGA ones, and CGA/EGA/VGA ones. They do run closer to 500 than 300 though. I am using one of those with the three modes and I must say it is pretty awesome. If you have the means i highly recommend picking one up, it is so choice!


--- Quote from: HaRuMaN on February 27, 2012, 11:54:20 am ---Just build a regular PC with VGA, and get one of these?

http://www.amazon.com/Pyle-PYPBV760-Component-Video-Converter/dp/B0038AER8K



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