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Title: Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor
Post by: gamecaptor on April 14, 2003, 04:40:48 pm

Hi all,

I'm in the process of gutting an arcade cabinet and making it into a MAME cabinet. I'm at the point where I need to choose a monitor and I can't figure out what to buy. I've been looking over this forum and it appears there are many different models to choose from (i.e. I

Title: Re:Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor
Post by: tom61 on April 14, 2003, 09:17:24 pm

What are your goals for the monitor? Cheap? Easy to use? Free to choose any video card? Most arcade authentic?

Title: Re:Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor
Post by: jerryjanis on April 15, 2003, 12:08:59 am

Just to explain, there are many many options for a monitor...  For each different option, there is probably an equal number of people that would tell you 'this is the best way'...  

Oscar went took a bunch of photos of the different options:

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/monitors.shtml

Title: Re:Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor
Post by: Vampyre on April 15, 2003, 04:52:28 am

well in a couple of weeks im gona buy a standard res arcade mon with an arcadeVGA from ultimarc and a video amplifier (for justin case) i can let yah know how that goes if yah like ?

Title: Re:Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor
Post by: gamecaptor on April 15, 2003, 02:21:00 pm

Tom61,

Yes, yes and yest :)

Basicly I want a 27" (because it will fit in my existing cabinet) something that will interface with a VGA (I'll buy whatever will work best with it, though I have a GeForce 2 Ultra lying around). Arcade authentic would be nice, but not really necessary (is there really a need for 800x600?). Cheep would be nice, but I'll pay for whatever is the best solution.

It seems many people really like the Wells Gardner 9100 monitor.

Title: Re:Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor
Post by: DeathMonk on April 15, 2003, 02:22:57 pm

Quote from: gamecaptor on April 15, 2003, 02:21:00 pm

Tom61,

Yes, yes and yest :)

Basicly I want a 27" (because it will fit in my existing cabinet) something that will interface with a VGA (I'll buy whatever will work best with it, though I have a GeForce 2 Ultra lying around). Arcade authentic would be nice, but not really necessary (is there really a need for 800x600?). Cheep would be nice, but I'll pay for whatever is the best solution.

It seems many people really like the Wells Gardner 9100 monitor.

D9200 would be your best bet.

Title: Re:Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor
Post by: gamecaptor on April 15, 2003, 02:32:11 pm

That's what I've been thinking.