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| dynomike:
I just got done building my second Mame cabinet. Here is a video of it. I built my first Mame cabinet a few months ago. Which would be this one..... I learned a lot with the first one. Then when I built the second one it was a breeze. I have the first one and am keeping it for myself because the "Red Alert" cabinet it is in is just too cool. The second one was built for a customer. He wanted to buy the first one from me but I hesitated to sell that cabinet and got lucky finding the second one to build for him. The biggest challenge is getting a pc to work with a proper crt monitor. I found the easiest way to do it is to find a tv with COMPONENT inputs. It's relatively easy to find cheap video cards with HDTV out. But finding the RIGHT connectors was a challenge. If anyone needs info on the proper HDTV cables for ATI video cards, I have sort of figured it out. The only problem with this, though, is that virtually all CRT tv's with component inputs are flat crt's. This is only a slight disadvantage as the flat screen crt tv in the first one I built looks FANTASTIC. Has all the advantages of a vintage arcade monitor except that it is not curved. But it is a million percent better than an LCD. I also experimented with a couple CRT computer monitors (curved screens). Works pretty good too, better than an LCD, but the resolution of those monitors is too high and you have to compensate by using the scan line images, which is pretty cool, but not really accurate and nowhere near as bright and high contrast as a regular tv/arcade monitor. In the SECOND machine I built...I got REALLY lucky and found an older CURVED crt 25" tv WITH COMPONENT INPUTS for $15! I don't believe I will find another one like it. The crt bolted right into the cabinet which was made for a 25" tube to begin with. Then all I had to do was mount the tv's chassis to the inside of the cabinet and connect it to the pc via the red/green/blue component connection. Gives a PERFECT authentic arcade image. I am currentley searching for any 25" crt tv's WITH component inputs. Flat or curved. Lot's of 27's around. Lots of 19/20s around. But hard to find 25's. I already have a couple more 19/20" tv's with component inputs to use for more machines. But the 25"er was way cooler and I hope to do more of those if I can find them. I have also started to experiment with an arcadvga 15khz card and a universal arcade monitor chassis on another 25" tube I have. That is not going well. I am sure I can dial it all in, but it is gonna be so frustrating trying to configure a setup like that which will always need fiddling with on every one I build. The component input tv's make the whole thing simple and smooth and look perfect. Sorry if this is all off the subject of this particular thread. I found this thread by searching for the zero delay encoder problem and i am grateful for your posts which led me to the solution. A PCI-usb card simply solves the problem and you can get them for $5 all day on Ebay. Thanks guys!! |
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