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Title: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: Stobe on March 23, 2008, 09:40:07 am
As topic states:  can a med res monitor be used to display a standard res game?

Thanks.
Stobe
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: grantspain on March 23, 2008, 09:45:51 am
some monitors are dual sync,depends on your model number though
if its fixed med res then you would need some kind of converter and from what i have seen med res output converters are very pricey
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: Stobe on March 23, 2008, 10:05:31 am
darnit.  I was hoping for a simple yes/no answer.  This hobby has too many unknowns :)


-Stobe
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: northerngames on March 23, 2008, 10:13:44 am
what type of monitor is in question or were you just wondering if they all were?
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: Stobe on March 23, 2008, 10:18:17 am
That's the problem.  I don't own it yet.  But its in a sega naomi cabinet, if that helps any?  (probably not, lol)

-Stobe
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: grantspain on March 23, 2008, 11:27:07 am
sega naomi standard monitors are sanwa 29es31 and nanao 2932 which are both high res 31khz
sega astro city have nanao ms8 variations 15/25khz
sega new astro city have nanao ms9 15/25khz
sometimes found in naomi cabs are multisync nanao ms2931
 you can see from this small choice the different type of monitors that can found

 if it is a sega naomi cab that is running a naomi mobo setup of any kind then it can only be a 31khz or 15khz monitor as naomi does not support 25khz

 if you find the game that is installed in the cab then you id the frequency
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: Stobe on March 23, 2008, 11:31:22 am
ok, its current;y running virtua tennis, and has some virtua golf burn-in on it.

Thanks so far for all the help!

-Stobe
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: grantspain on March 23, 2008, 11:45:01 am
31khz for sure,15khz to 31khz converters are cheap if you want to jamma games
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: Stobe on March 23, 2008, 11:55:46 am
31khz for sure,15khz to 31khz converters are cheap if you want to jamma games

Cool thanks.  Do you have a link to an example converter that would work good to play stand res jamma games in that cab?
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: grantspain on March 23, 2008, 12:04:41 pm
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http://cgi.ebay.com/RGB-CGA-to-VGA-480i-Componet-to-VGA-Converter-Scaler_W0QQitemZ250226589867QQihZ015QQcategoryZ15077QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Title: Re: Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?
Post by: northerngames on March 24, 2008, 12:05:50 am
those are cool.