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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: Abomination on September 01, 2023, 12:00:52 am

Title: Help revamping an old build
Post by: Abomination on September 01, 2023, 12:00:52 am

I built an mame cabinet I love about 12 years ago.  Time goes on and I really want to upgrade the pc and revamp the old frontend.  My question is this, I used an old 30" crt (that still works great) and had an old video card I used.

What works with new pc's to convert to a crt?  What is the new "standard"?

Thanks in advance my arcade people!

Title: Re: Help revamping an old build
Post by: buttersoft on September 02, 2023, 02:48:18 am

Well, there are lots of different ways to skin a cat, but for my money crt_emudriver the best bet. I wrote out a very long guide to as to why some time back. Keep in mind that it's slightly dated now and Retroarch is probably... better than i make it sound?

https://www.aussiearcade.com/topic/76809-a-guide-to-connecting-your-windows-pc-to-an-sd-crt-tv-pvm-or-arcade-monitor/page/5/#comment-1263964

I presume your old setup was using S-video, or perhaps composite, directly from the TV-out port of the old GPU?

Title: Re: Help revamping an old build
Post by: Abomination on September 02, 2023, 10:38:23 am

thanks for the reply.  Yeah my old setup was composite from the gpu to tv