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| rubberpoultry:
--- Quote from: TOK on December 04, 2006, 12:51:09 pm --- --- Quote from: subcriminal on December 04, 2006, 12:27:58 pm ---Is it hard to find a TV with a SCART socket in the States? It's the best method to turn a TV into an arcade monitor if you can get hold of one. You just wire a VGA cable to a SCART plug and plug it into an ArcadeVGA card. --- End quote --- Since it originated in France, its our duty as Americans to reject SCART whether its good or not. >:D Just kidding. The US is a hodge-podge of assorted inputs, but DVI and HDMI are pretty much becoming the standard. The thing is, everyone is going to flat panel monitors so CRTs aren't really getting much limelight so they're saddled with component inputs at best. They work and produce a good image, it's just more work to get them going. --- End quote --- I read a post by one guy who said he had a JVC and could access the hidden service menu, and was able to make the overscan work right. You're saying MaLa does this through the software? Pretty cool. I'm not interested in having a high res windows interface. The sole purpose of this machince will be MAME. I'm a lifelong Mac guy. Does MaLa take a lot of complicated setup? I haven't even gotten to the frontend question. |
| TOK:
--- Quote from: subcriminal on December 04, 2006, 01:03:37 pm --- --- Quote ---They work and produce a good image --- End quote --- TFT's? For reading the interweb maybe but destroy arcade game emulation. --- End quote --- You took my comment WAY out of context there dude, to the point where I don't think you understood what I was writing. What you snipped isn't even a complete sentence. What I was alluding to is that the CRT's that are so great for MAME cabs aren't getting DVI and HDMI inputs because everyone wants flat panels for monitors and TV's. We're in a very small group that is actually looking for 4:3 CRT's with advanced inputs. |
| TOK:
--- Quote from: rubberpoultry on December 04, 2006, 01:12:43 pm --- --- Quote from: TOK on December 04, 2006, 12:51:09 pm --- --- Quote from: subcriminal on December 04, 2006, 12:27:58 pm ---Is it hard to find a TV with a SCART socket in the States? It's the best method to turn a TV into an arcade monitor if you can get hold of one. You just wire a VGA cable to a SCART plug and plug it into an ArcadeVGA card. --- End quote --- Since it originated in France, its our duty as Americans to reject SCART whether its good or not. >:D Just kidding. The US is a hodge-podge of assorted inputs, but DVI and HDMI are pretty much becoming the standard. The thing is, everyone is going to flat panel monitors so CRTs aren't really getting much limelight so they're saddled with component inputs at best. They work and produce a good image, it's just more work to get them going. --- End quote --- I read a post by one guy who said he had a JVC and could access the hidden service menu, and was able to make the overscan work right. You're saying MaLa does this through the software? Pretty cool. I'm not interested in having a high res windows interface. The sole purpose of this machince will be MAME. I'm a lifelong Mac guy. Does MaLa take a lot of complicated setup? I haven't even gotten to the frontend question. --- End quote --- Yes. I read all the same posts when I started using a TV. My Toshiba has a service menu, and I was also able to get things working with Powerstrip, but ultimately found out MaLa could do what I needed done without doing either. Its at easy as inputting the resolution you want in MaLa's configuration menus. It was so easy, I couldn't believe that it worked after reading all the stuff people were going through. I'll take pictures of my Windows desktop, the MaLa configuration and MAME running and post them if it'll help you get a handle on things. |
| rubberpoultry:
Thanks man! THis is one of the last problems to solve. I found an old JVC AV27530 27" online (kind of beat up, but the picture is good) which was referred to in the service menu post I'm referring to. I'm not sure if I should take a chance on that or buy something like an Insignia from Best Buy. |
| TOK:
Sorry for this huge kludge and the image quality, but here is a step by step account of my cab booting and adjusting the res in MaLa. The sideways startup! ;D Desktop overscan... This is at 640x480 and you can see the Windows toolbar is cut off. Mala has started and is using it's custom resolution Right click the mouse and Mala options come up... Hit the Options menu item: Hideous image quality, but here is the key to the whole thing... After you're in the Options, hit Mame Config, go to the Mame Executable line and hit the Config box. Click Advanced, then Custom Res. I'm using 640x432. Donkey Kong at 640x432! ;D |
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