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Author Topic: Most common problem: scrolling image on pc to arcade monitor  (Read 3626 times)

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Most common problem: scrolling image on pc to arcade monitor
« on: February 22, 2012, 03:43:25 pm »
Hey all,

I already have an mame cabinet with an LCD monitor but I wanted to get closer to the original as possible so a friend gave me an arcade monitor that he said was being used in a neo geo cabinet.

I've put my desktop in 640x480@60hz (32bit color) installed soft15khz and got the image you can see here in this picture:



The colors seems fantastic and the soldering I did myself. I got a vga cable, cut in the middle and soldered like this:

Red - Red
Green - Green
Blue - Blue
Red, Green, Blue protection (terra) and black to "terra"/protection
Vertical and horizontal sync soldered together to "sync" (white in the arcade monitor)

I'm not the best solder so here's the result:



This is my arcade monitor:




Let me know what I can do to solve this :))

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Re: Most common problem: scrolling image on pc to arcade monitor
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 05:29:44 pm »
An arcade monitor is 320×200 resolution so you have to reduce your resolution is soft 15 to match a cga or 320×200 resolution screen.

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Re: Most common problem: scrolling image on pc to arcade monitor
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 05:36:06 pm »
You can run 640x480 on a CGA arcade monitor, but it has to be Interlaced, which soft15k is supposed to do.  It's not work, though, which is at least one of your problems.

You're essentially getting 3 images, which would be more typical of trying to run 800x600 on a 15k monitor (note that this can damage it).

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Re: Most common problem: scrolling image on pc to arcade monitor
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2012, 05:58:08 pm »
This image was made while running hyperspin.

Mame games do the same. So what can I do?  Should I change soft15khz to powerstrip?
Should I change hyperspin settings?
640x480 in 15khz works?

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Re: Most common problem: scrolling image on pc to arcade monitor
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2012, 09:24:26 am »
I saw somewhere that my graphic card is not compatible.
I have a geforce 220 GT with the newest drivers.

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Re: Most common problem: scrolling image on pc to arcade monitor
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2012, 04:29:42 am »
Most likely you need the EDID dongle for a GT220 to work.
I do all that stuff even without a Joystick ;)
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