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Main => Raspberry Pi & Dev Board => Topic started by: TGov on March 21, 2017, 12:35:13 pm

Title: Has anybody used Retropie with a Wei-Ya/MakVision 2929 SVGA CRT?
Post by: TGov on March 21, 2017, 12:35:13 pm

Pretty much that.  I have tried to se the config and using an HDMI to VGA converter but I still get the 'Out of Range' signal on boot.  Would love to use this in place of a full PC (which is a PIA to setup with the 2929 as well)

Any ideas or experience? 
Thanks

Title: Re: Has anybody used Retropie with a Wei-Ya/MakVision 2929 SVGA CRT?
Post by: nitrogen_widget on March 21, 2017, 02:00:01 pm

This help?

http://celso.io/2012/12/17/connecting-a-raspberry-pi-to-an-old-15khz-arcade-monitor.html (http://celso.io/2012/12/17/connecting-a-raspberry-pi-to-an-old-15khz-arcade-monitor.html)

Title: Re: Has anybody used Retropie with a Wei-Ya/MakVision 2929 SVGA CRT?
Post by: TGov on March 21, 2017, 02:08:27 pm

It isn't a 15kz monitor, but maybe some of those setting will work.  Thanks.

Title: Re: Has anybody used Retropie with a Wei-Ya/MakVision 2929 SVGA CRT?
Post by: langlem on March 21, 2017, 11:27:14 pm

I have a raspi, running retropie set up to a crt arcade monitor via an hdmi to vga adapter and it works great.

I am sorry, I am not near the cabinet to see exactly what monitor it is as its at my sons place... It has a vga hook up and I am fairly certain it was a Wells Gardner 19K3100...

Anyway, I simply went in and Opened config file and uncommented the hdmi_safemode to get it to boot into vgamode and after a restart it looks great.

Not sure if it would be that simple for you...but I am real interested to hear how it turns out because I have a line on that exact same monitor that I am considering for an upcoming project.

Good luck!