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Highly recommend the Sony Trinitron for MAME
zelony:
Hi all,
I have an NFL Blitz 99 Showcase cab that I converted to a MAME cabinet. I had replaced the 36" arcade monitor with a decased 36" Gateway Destination VGA monitor. I was very happy with this setup as the VGA monitors picture was great.
Recently, I had decided to add a Playstation 2 light gun setup to my MAME cabinet but there is no way to use the VGA monitor and still have the light guns work.
So, I went out and bought a 36" Sony Trinitron TV off of Craigslist for $75. I hooked up the PS2 via the standard composite video in and the picture is great and playing light gun games on that big of a TV is a blast.
The next step was to connect my MAME computer to the TV. I used the s-video out of my ATI video card and cloned the picture at the standard resolution of 800X600. I have MAME set to force all games to that resolution by default because that was the resolution of the Gateway VGA Monitor.
Once I had it cloned, I fired up a game of The Simpsons on the new TV and was blown away! The color was bright and vivid and the picture quality is outstanding, even better than Gateway Destination monitor and I always thought that it blew away standard arcade monitors.
I can highly recommend the Sony Trinitron with S-Video to anyone for use with MAME. The color and clarity are the best I have ever seen in an arcade or MAME cabinet.
Have fun and keep checking Craigslist, you may find a deal out there.
Jeff
DJ_Izumi:
Heh... And that's only using S-Video.
What model is it that you're using anyway?
zelony:
It is a KV35S42.
I was suprised hom much better the games looked on the TV. It has to be the Vivid color settings the TV is set to. Now, I want to make it clear that the games look better, not Windows. Windows text is a little hard to read, but once you fire up a MAME game it looks fantastic. It also looks good in the front end I use, GameEx. I also highly recommend GameEx for anyone looking for a front end. I gladly paid the fee for it and use it on my cabinet and my daughter's cabinet and will use it on my cocktail cabinet if I ever finish it. ;-)
RobbyMac:
Cool good to know. I just picked up a 27" 2 days ago (destined for my mame cab). Previosuly I'd only tested it on a 27" RCA we have (but couldnt transfer to the cabinet).
I picked it up because:
A) Ive never been dissapointed by anything sony
B) It has LOTS of inputs
3) It was the right price!
DJ_Izumi:
Ah I see, it's a 90's model so it doesn't seem to have component. I have a 2002 KV-27FS100, it's glorious I tell you. But I couldn't image lifting something like 36 inches. The KV-36FS100 weighs in at 206lbs, literally twice what the KV-27FS100 weighs. @_@