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Title: Dreamcast in a cabinet..
Post by: jlampc on March 05, 2004, 02:02:48 am

I have a new cabinet and I would like to try to put a dreamcast in it. I have about 200 games for it and would like  to figure a way to use it. The Cab has a medium resolution Arcade monitor connected to a jamma harness..I am pretty lost. I've been looking for an RGB part for the Dreamcast and have been unsuccessful. If anyone has experience with this lemme know!!!

ThanX :D

Title: Re:Dreamcast in a cabinet..
Post by: gnateye on March 05, 2004, 10:47:41 am

this needs to be in the console section.


but to answer your question, it can be done using a dreamcast vga box. you remove a certain pin to force to 15khz or whatever. search around i have seen people talking about this in the console forum before

good luck 8)

Title: Re:Dreamcast in a cabinet..
Post by: Stingray on March 05, 2004, 11:07:25 am

Seems to me that it would be MUCH easier to just sell the arcade monitor and put a TV in the cab.

-S

Title: Re:Dreamcast in a cabinet..
Post by: gnateye on March 05, 2004, 11:26:04 am

which brings us back to the super gun. i plan to add one to my dreamcast cab (which has a 24" svid tv) so i can multi use that cab a little better.

Title: Re:Dreamcast in a cabinet..
Post by: Stormy151 on March 05, 2004, 12:37:49 pm

I had been planning to do this as well, since there are a lot of other console emulators that run on the Dreamcast.  Then I just decided to run them all from the PC.

I would do what Stingray suggested and just use a regular TV instead of an arcade monitor if you can't find the parts you need.

Title: Re:Dreamcast in a cabinet..
Post by: Dave_K. on March 05, 2004, 04:45:11 pm

Is everyone smoking crack in this thread? :)

First of all, the Dreamcast to arcade monitor hack is very simple, and fully documented in the byoac console faq:
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_consoles.shtml (http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_consoles.shtml)
All you do is snip one wire.

Second, since your cabinet uses a Med Res monitor (24khz), you will  find that the dreamcast can NOT output that frequency (only NTSC-15khz, and VGA 31khz).   Sorry but you are out of luck.

Although in this particular case swapping the monitor out with a TV is a plausabile option, its only because this is a medium res monitor.  But I'd take a std res arcade monitor over a tv with s-vid anyday of the week!  So probably swapping the med res monitor out for a std res monitor is a better option IMHO (otherwise you have to kludge a way to securley mount the TV in the cab).

Title: Re:Dreamcast in a cabinet..
Post by: jlampc on March 17, 2004, 12:46:33 am

good news. my monitor is switchable to 15khz... ;D


I am looking over the link for the VGA hack as we speak. My final plan is touse the dramcas and a pc for mame. My issue is how toswitch back and forth....I'm also stilltrying to figure out what the different wires do...sigh....


thanx for the help