Possible To Hook BOTH ps2 and DC to arcade monitor at same time?

[shodokan123]

yep..

i wanna put my DC and ps2 in one... so i need all the info i can get.

Keep in mind, I DO NOT WANT IT TO HAVE ANY JAMMA CAPABILITIES.

[SOAPboy]

yes

Get a multi switch for multiple consoles and at the push of a button you can switch it..

just have to hack the switch.. no idea how that would work, but i suppose it wouldnt be to terribly hard..



Couldnt you just hack the wires to each console together.. 

[shodokan123]

i don't think so?

unless there is some way i can use the ultimark ps2 converter thing for DC too.

If i splice them together i think that could cause both systems to fry? lol


could this work?

plug the RCA into a VGA box then hack the VGA to scart or w/e and use it that way?

[SOAPboy]

i don't think so?

unless there is some way i can use the ultimark ps2 converter thing for DC too.

If i splice them together i think that could cause both systems to fry? lol


could this work?

plug the RCA into a VGA box then hack the VGA to scart or w/e and use it that way?

Well, if you splice the RCAs together near the console itself, its basicly just taping the others signal.. just have to power one off, then power the other on..

I suppose the scart would work tho.. if i had some extra rcas for my dreamcast id do a hot tap on em and splice them together just to see make sure it worked, tho im damn sure it will, you would just have to have 1 on at a time..

[shodokan123]

i dont want them both ON at the same time...
and how would i go about putting the 2 RCA's together and what the hell would i do AFTER i did that? lol

[SOAPboy]

i dont want them both ON at the same time...
and how would i go about putting the 2 RCA's together and what the hell would i do AFTER i did that? lol

Well, you can do it the "right" way and buy splitters




or the ghetto way (my fav personally) and splice them..


In any case, then you can plug it into the vga and hack it to scart. 

[shodokan123]

will scart cables work on american versions of the system?

[Goz]

Aren't you the same guy who said in this thread that you don't want to build a cab as it's a waste of your time or you money?

[shodokan123]

i have horrid add, so excuse my past remarks

[elvis]

I assume you'll be using RGB (SCART) out to hook up to a real arcade monitor?

I'm doing something similar.  I've bought an LM1881N chip, and a SCART female socket.  I'm getting all the signals out that I need (R, G, B, Comp Sync) and feeding them into a DB9 switchbox (use DB25 if you need more inputs, or whatever).  My switchbox will then select between the SCART socket for consoles, and JAMMA input for arcade boards.

You could either remove the switchbox from the picture and just use the SCART socket, or remove the scart socket and permanently attach the consoles to the switchbox and simply switch between them.

Further to what I'm building, I'm getting a whole bunch of JAMMA fingerboards (jammaboards.com have them with additional "kick harness" attachments for 6 (or more) button setups) and attaching them to some gamepad hacks.  That way I'll have a generic series of JAMMA->Console controller hacks, and a generic SCART->JAMMA converter, making swapping and changing of my consoles in and out of my arcade machines nice and easy.

Again, you can build just a small subset of all of that and have what you want.

[Minwah]

I've basically done this*, and can have both on at the same time...something similar to this:

Get a DC VGA box and hack to output at 15khz (see the consoles section of this site),
Get an Ultimarc PS2 AV adaptor,
Plug both into the input of a monitor switchbox using VGA cables,
Plug the output of the switchbox into your monitor.

Not neccessarily the cheapest method, but almost certainly the easiest.

Edit: and you can easily add other systems such as Xbox, PC with ArcadeVGA etc...

(*I have an Xbox and not PS2, but same principal applies)