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Title: ARCADE VGA or Scanline Generator SLG3000?
Post by: williamavished on June 05, 2014, 01:38:50 am

Hi iam new here in this forum ;D

I am plan to build arcade machine. And want to put televisions. With ports SCRAT or S-VIDEO.

My question is which one is better in terms of quality of the SLG or ARCADE VGA?

I heard ARCADE VGA not bad. But no matter which monitor you add it, you had problems directions of the screen.

Thanks

Title: Re: ARCADE VGA or Scanline Generator SLG3000?
Post by: ChanceKJ on June 05, 2014, 01:42:26 am

Neither. 

I asked myself that same question once.  Go with one of Crafty's SLG Mini's and some VGA.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129344.0.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129344.0.html)

Just do this and make your life simple. You will not be disappointed.

All this or just go classic CRT and be done with it.

Title: Re: ARCADE VGA or Scanline Generator SLG3000?
Post by: williamavished on June 05, 2014, 01:48:45 am

Quote from: ChanceKJ on June 05, 2014, 01:42:26 am

Neither. 

I asked myself that same question once.  Go with one of Crafty's SLG Mini's and some VGA.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129344.0.html (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129344.0.html)

Just do this and make your life simple. You will not be disappointed.

All this or just go classic CRT and be done with it.

Thanks men  ;) i will check it out.

Title: Re: ARCADE VGA or Scanline Generator SLG3000?
Post by: Minwah on June 05, 2014, 04:18:38 am

Quote from: williamavished on June 05, 2014, 01:38:50 am

I am plan to build arcade machine. And want to put televisions. With ports SCRAT or S-VIDEO.

For a Scart (RGB) equipped CRT TV, your best option is ArcadeVGA or Soft15khz. Either will give you the same result as a real arcade monitor.

If the TV is not a CRT then there may be better options...

Title: Re: ARCADE VGA or Scanline Generator SLG3000?
Post by: rCadeGaming on June 09, 2014, 04:59:57 pm

Yeah, probably should be made clear that SLG's are only good for LCD/LED/Plasma, etc. 

A CRT will be a lot more work to set up, but will give you better looking, authentic video, with no input lag (from the display at least).  Everyone's decision about the display is different based on time, interest, and how picky you are about video quality and lag.  If you do go with a CRT, you'll need either a SCART input, or a component input and a VGA to component transcoder.  There aren't any quality s-video solutions available for MAME right now.

GroovyMAME+CRT_Emudriver is another option on the PC end.  The ArcadeVGA has the advantage of simplicity, but it is not flexible enough for advanced users.  Soft15kHz is obsolete, there's not much reason to get into that instead of CRT_Emudriver.

Title: Re: ARCADE VGA or Scanline Generator SLG3000?
Post by: Minwah on June 10, 2014, 10:03:11 am

Quote from: rCadeGaming on June 09, 2014, 04:59:57 pm

GroovyMAME+CRT_Emudriver is another option on the PC end.  The ArcadeVGA has the advantage of simplicity, but it is not flexible enough for advanced users.  Soft15kHz is obsolete, there's not much reason to get into that instead of CRT_Emudriver.

Thanks, I didn't know about CRT_Emudriver. That said, I still use Soft15khz and it does all I need it to...I do like using old stock versions (& my own builds) of Mame versions however.