Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

« previous next »
Pages: [1]
  
Go Down

Author Topic: Extra Monitor On Top Of The Machine?  (Read 1459 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

MK3FAN

  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 975
  • Last login:May 09, 2022, 07:07:29 pm
Extra Monitor On Top Of The Machine?
« on: May 23, 2012, 08:44:50 pm »
Ok, back in the day, when the arcade game was very popular, they used to put a second monitor on top of the cabinet so people could spectate easily. My question is, how did they interface it? Did they simply splice into the Jamma harness's video wires and run them to each monitor, or did they have a splitter of some kind?

The reason I am asking is because I wanted to re-create this type of setup on my MK1 and snap some pictures for the 20th anniversary of MK. I have extra monitors and building a box and replicating the look is the easy part, but I'm not sure how to go about hooking both monitors up at the same time. Don't want to damage anything.
Logged
Current collection - 28 cabs, 4 pins. (32 machines and not enough room)

codecrank

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 60
  • Last login:August 04, 2017, 08:47:39 pm
Re: Extra Monitor On Top Of The Machine?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 05:59:35 pm »
Quote from: MK3FAN on May 23, 2012, 08:44:50 pm
Ok, back in the day, when the arcade game was very popular, they used to put a second monitor on top of the cabinet so people could spectate easily. My question is, how did they interface it? Did they simply splice into the Jamma harness's video wires and run them to each monitor, or did they have a splitter of some kind?

The reason I am asking is because I wanted to re-create this type of setup on my MK1 and snap some pictures for the 20th anniversary of MK. I have extra monitors and building a box and replicating the look is the easy part, but I'm not sure how to go about hooking both monitors up at the same time. Don't want to damage anything.


Not sure how they use to it, but you could easily build a jamma pass-through adapter and run the video wires to the 2nd monitor.

 :cheers:
Logged
Pages: [1]
  
Go Up
« previous next »