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Title: Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: KingRyan on August 11, 2003, 12:31:17 pm

I have a Virtua Fighter cabinet that wouldn't, no matter what I did, work with my ArcadeVGA card from Ultimarc.  The guy at Ultimarc let me know that my monitor is Medium Res, therefore it won't work with the card due to running on a higher frequency...  Does anyone know of any way to get it to work on MAME?  That was why I bought the cabinet, I'll replace the monitor if I have to, but I would really rather not, obviously.  Thanks!!

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: Superdude on August 11, 2003, 02:11:16 pm

You can go a couple of ways on this.  I have the same exact cab.

1) Check the Type of Monitor you have.  The Original Sega Viruta Fighter Cabs used the Well Gardner U5000 Medium Resolution Monitors.   These are switchable back to 15.73.  If this is so, switch it to use standard 15 and use the ArcadeVga Card.

2) If this is a non switching EGA monitor, (Only 24), you can use a Trident 3D Card for 30 bucks and use special drivers to run Windows 98.

3) Same as 2 except in dos you can use Advance Mame to run at 24.

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: KingRyan on August 11, 2003, 02:23:19 pm

The monitor in mine is a Mitsubishi, and I don't see any switches that may put it at Standard resolution (though that would be very convenient!).  I will try the Trident card.  Do you know where I might easily find the drivers you mentioned?  Thank you very much!!!  

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: Superdude on August 12, 2003, 06:44:30 pm

Its not Mitsubshi, it actually a Well's Gardner U5000.

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: paigeoliver on August 13, 2003, 04:41:48 am

Quote from: KingRyan on August 11, 2003, 02:23:19 pm

The monitor in mine is a Mitsubishi, and I don't see any switches that may put it at Standard resolution (though that would be very convenient!).  I will try the Trident card.  Do you know where I might easily find the drivers you mentioned?  Thank you very much!!!  

You are probably reading the tube manufacturer rather than the monitor manufacturer. Mitsubishi makes tubes, but I don't think they make arcade monitors.

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: muk on August 17, 2003, 12:11:50 pm

I two have a similar problem. I have bought a Arcade VGA, I have a Virtual Fighter II, the monitor is a Nanao MS8-26U with a Mitsubishi tube which from what I read is a dual resolution monitor, it is currenly set to 24kHZ as sega dedicated defaulted to this.

Did anybody find a solution to this? I really want to just change it to 15kHZ and use my arcade vga.


Cheers

Muk

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: Superdude on August 22, 2003, 05:44:21 pm

There is a plug marked HIGH and Low.  High is Medium, Low is Standard.  Just switch it and you have a standard arcade monitor.

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: jcoleman on August 27, 2003, 10:58:15 am

If your tube says Mitsubishi, I would wager that you are using Nanao monitor.  Superdude is right...look for the white connector with many wires coming out that is pulgged right into the board.  Unplug that and put it in the connector right next to it.  Boom, you have a 15.75 kHz monitor.

Title: Re:Medium Res Monitor on MAME
Post by: jcoleman on August 27, 2003, 11:03:36 am

Here is a pdf of the manual.

http://cartman.noc.sbc.edu:8080/MS826U.pdf

LMK if you can't download it and I will email it to you.  It's approximately 2.5 Mb.