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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: RockinRob on December 20, 2004, 12:01:20 am
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Hello I've been reading alot here and been using your search feature and haven't really found what I was wondering so I will Ask..
Maybe I'll tell ya bout my current Rig :)
Street Fighter 2 Cabinet
23" Monitor I believe if I'm measuring it correct corner to corner ?
http://mymonday.com/temp/1%20013.jpg
Model Number
25k7193
also has a zenith sticker/well garner
http://mymonday.com/temp/1%20017.jpg
Now I think I have the generic pin out etc on converting from an arcade into
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WG7193 is a 25" monitor (although considering the voodoo they use to get screen sizes its no wonder you were lead astray). before you fire up your rig make sure that the video output is 15khz (not the PC standard of 31 khz) you either need software to do this such as the blade3d software or ati's powerstrip or hardware--such as the arcadevga or jpac. Also you can buy premade harnesses from ultimarc i believe. It sounds like you may have some more research to do before you start playing or else you just didn't post enough details for me to know one way or the other.
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...such as the arcadevga or jpac...
The J-PAC merely has a protection circuit to prevent damage to an arcade monitor. It will split the signal in half - and also the picture. Once the system has reached a 15KHz mode, it'll look okay.
ArcadeVGA supports this mode out-of-the-box, but it is not the only solution. The Blade64 was mentioned, and works quite well.
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okay iam about 98 % on my street figter 2 coverted into a mame machine
pc Iam useing
amd 1200 mhz
256mb ddr ram
80gb hard drive
2 usb gravis game pads wired into the orginal contols plus coin slots
arcade OS
and
DOSCab Jukebox
dual boot so i can choose between the 2
now this all works great off my pc monitor... was hopeing to do away with the ipac's jpac's etc wanted 100 % from my pc..
I've tried about 4 differnt wireing getups from the pc vga into the arcade montior nothing
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nothing in your post indicates you have any sort of conversion happening to convert the 31khz output of the pc down to 15khz that the arcade monitor runs at--IF YOU FEED IT A 31KHZ FOR ANY ENGTH OF TIME YOU MAY KILL IT. you can't just hack the cable and hope that it works.
if you use an arcadevga you can do away with the jpac as it does all the conversion for you, but with a regular pc video card--forget about it, unless you have something to drive the proper signal.