Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
CHICKEN RESTORE LIKE A ROBOT (Berzerk) *IT LIVES*
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: SirPeale on February 11, 2010, 04:14:07 pm ---Dude, you live in New England, which is like Arcade Game Mecca...you couldn't find one person to sell you a working 19" standard res monitor?
--- End quote ---
How many WTB posts did you see me make? Never turned up one deal that wasn't someone who stopped responding, changed the terms after the fact, or didn't actually have one. Closest I came was a collector we both know in southern NH who consistently would stop responding when I tried to set up an actual time to come get it.
The more I think about it, though, the less of an actual problem I see with this. It doesn't look all that much different than an arcade monitor would if it weren't 20 years old and burned. It's Berzerk, a stick figure running around a monochrome maze shooting robots that are practically nonanimated. What's the difference between putting in some random arcade monitor vs some random VGA monitor?
I just don't get how people who consider MAME to be a "faithful representation of the game" can be so adamant about a display that isn't actually part of the game. Emulation is a way bigger bastardization than a VGA monitor used with original game PCBs.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2010, 08:10:52 pm ---How many WTB posts did you see me make?
--- End quote ---
None, actually. I don't venture into BST that often, and when I do it's to berate people for not putting their location in their thread titles.
If I'd known you were looking I probably could have set you up. But hey, you're actually up and playing now, so that's what matters.
Level42:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2010, 08:10:52 pm ---The more I think about it, though, the less of an actual problem I see with this. It doesn't look all that much different than an arcade monitor would if it weren't 20 years old and burned.
..... What's the difference between putting in some random arcade monitor vs some random VGA monitor?
--- End quote ---
The difference is that the pixels are way too small on that VGA monitor....plus the converter looses quality, no matter what.
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2010, 08:10:52 pm ---I just don't get how people who consider MAME to be a "faithful representation of the game" can be so adamant about a display that isn't actually part of the game.
--- End quote ---
I don't think that. Mame is nice if you have no alternative, but it never plays exactly like the same hardware.
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2010, 08:10:52 pm --- Emulation is a way bigger bastardization than a VGA monitor used with original game PCBs.
--- End quote ---
100% agreed !
Don't take this too seriously, it's not like you hacked a Xarcade CP and a MAME PC in it....
And there is always the cost question, I realize that very much (always struggle with it). A brand new monitor is 200 bucks excl. shipping. The converter only 50....
By the way, form what I've read it looks like your problems may have actually been with converging the tube. It's not that hard to fix that really, but I can see why people don't want to try it. So you still have some good chassis there.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version