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Title: dreacast to arcade monitor revisted
Post by: tenex2mg on July 23, 2004, 01:23:51 pm

Greets All,
    I'm still trying to achieve arcade nirvana via a dreamcast connection to my monitor...I found an old trivia whiz which I plan to convert to a bartop jukebox but for now, its my testbed instead of fussing with the big cabinet.  My question is which wires do I connect on the monitor...here's what I got:


Two groups of connections:
Red
Green
Blue
Ground
+ V sync
+ H sync

and above that another set of pins:
Ground
- V Sync
- H Sync



now I've got 6 wires on my hacked vga wire:
red
blue
green
ground (5+wires all together (the cord that comes with ArcadeVga))
h-sync
v-sync


so long story short I have 6 wires and 9 possible connections what goes where...in regards to the syncs and grounds...also do i need to separate the ground wire as it comes from ArcadeVga breakaway cable?  IE those 5 or so wires bundled together, do they need to separated and attatched to certain ones?


as always, thanks in advance


-jeff-

Title: Re:dreacast to arcade monitor revisted
Post by: Dave_K. on July 24, 2004, 01:50:20 am

First, you need to expose the ground wire from the hacked VGA cable.  Use a multimeter to check if the vga cable's Hor and Vert wires are + or - relative to that ground wire.  Then hook up the r,g,b,gnd as you'd expect, and the Hor and Vert to either the + set of inputs, or - set of inputs.