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Interfacing arcade monitor to an RCA - - - HELP!!!

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LordDamo:

Thanks heaps man, i'll look into it and let you know.

Silver:

Basically Arcade monitors need seperate Red/Green/Blue/Syncs connections.

PC's/Xbox kick out some form of this (VGA has all the above, Xbox can do RCA and RGB I believe.) so can be hacked.

I'm guessing the Namco 5-1 is strictly RCA only, and the only way to connect that would to get a RCA-RGB decoder/converter which would not only cost $$$ but would lower the quality of the signal....

The only other (remote) option I can think of is opening the Namco unit and discovering if there are RGBS signals available on the PCB for you to solder to....

paigeoliver:


--- Quote from: Silver on December 23, 2004, 06:02:07 am ---
The only other (remote) option I can think of is opening the Namco unit and discovering if there are RGBS signals available on the PCB for you to solder to....

--- End quote ---

There aren't. The Namco unit only has 2 unhackable BLOBS inside. The hardware itself (which is one chip, one surface mount BLOB), does support RGB, but it must be set by software, and namco's software doesn't set it.

LordDamo:

Thanks guys for your help. Ive offered the monitor and the jamma harness that came with it to the Australian arcade yahoo group I run. Ive had one offer for the cash amout I was wanting for this, but I would prefer a trade of a similar sized tv with RCA's. After I read the pages that Layer01 posted I realised it wasn't posiable because of the whole RGB thing. It makes sence, I was just tring to use what I have avaliable. I may want to use it in the future, but not for a long time yet. Im planning on a big moves soon and I dont want to risk destroying it if someone can use it, would prfer to send it to a "good home".

Thanks for your help and comments though guy's, much appreciated.

wboy:

have you considered an ArcadeVGA?

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