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Title: I want to build a DK replica cab...
Post by: arnthestampede on August 12, 2012, 06:55:51 pm

So I want to build a replica Donkey Kong cab however I dont want to run it on mame, I want to buy a pcb and run it that way. The thing is I have no idea about this side of the project.

Ive built a number of Mame cabs so I fine with all that side but im a little unsure as to what I would need / how I would hook it all up.

I was looking at buying the board from mikesarcade, what would I need in terms of a monitor? and how do you hook it up to the board? I know the nintendo cabs used very specific monitors but I have seen this: http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=NININVAMP (http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=NININVAMP)

So would I be able to use any monitor? I really want to get the ball rolling but this monitor issue is the only thing Im worried about.

any help would be apreciated.

thanks

Title: Re: I want to build a DK replica cab...
Post by: mgb on August 12, 2012, 09:12:20 pm

That board would allow you to use any regular arcade monitor (like a wells gardner k4900, etc.) with your nintendo game board. Its not for using any monitor such as a vga monitor.
However Wells Gardner does have some LCDs that will take a regular arcade video signal.

That board on Mikes Arcade will take care of the audio and also the video inversion because nintendos video signals are opposites of others.