Dumb Question

[Ravis]

I'm pretty new to this entire concept but have gotten all kinds of great ideas from the project announcement board (there's some really impressive cabinets in there). What I was wondering, is whether it's possible to purchase an old cab, disconnect the board inside, and use the existing cabinet / monitor with a console like say an X-Box. I don't have a good understanding of how the video signals work on the original monitors so i'm not sure if it's possible, or if it's just not a regular practice because of poor video quality? does the composite output from the xbox need to be converted to something else to connect to the existing monitor?

I doubt you guys would be a fan of this method...it's pretty much the pansy way out, toss a debugger box in filled with mame roms... a couple of x-arcade controllers mounted into the existing frame and it's done, i'm just not sure if...

1> I can get the vid out from an x-box to connect to an old cabinet monitor
2> It's worth taking the quality loss

[Hoagie_one]

nothin pansy about it.  A few people have done just that.

[CheffoJeffo]

While I am not one of those people who have done it, perhaps this may help:

http://www.ultimarc.com/xba.html

Cheers

[Ravis]

Thanks for the link Jeffo, that's extremely helpful, looking at the price of those x-arcade controllers is insane, that should save a good deal of money and look more authentic.

[RayB]

Look through the Consoles forum, and the Project Announcements forum. There HAVE been console based cabs.

To help you on your way... To get a console video to play on an arcade monitor, you need an output cable such as what they call a "SCART" cable. Then you hack that and connect the wires to the monitor (R, G, B, Sync, Grnd) ...