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New and looking to convert a jamma cabinet
jmarket:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on November 17, 2012, 05:51:53 pm ---That monitor is way too small for that cabinet, it will look ridiculous. That cabinet needs a 27" monitor not a 21" PC monitor (which is 19" in arcade terms). The monitor in that cabinet is going to be medium resolution and the joysticks are going to be 49-ways.
Does the machine work already? Does the monitor work?
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Yeah i am wanting a bigger monitor. I measured and it is actually only a couple inches smaller than the one that was in the cabinet before i picked it up. Would I be able to use a TV? I could probably find a 27" tv to use.
jmarket:
I was doing some measuring and might be able to fit a 32" TV after I remove the TV cabinet. I have a friend that I am going to be able to get the 32" TV from in a couple weeks. I will have to get a converter to convert my VGA to S-video. Hope it still looks good after converting to S-video. from what I found on this forum S-video does not looks pretty decent. Anyone using s-video want to comment?
paigeoliver:
The casing of that monitor might only be a couple inches smaller than the (caseless) 27" monitor in that thing now, but the tube is going to be about 7-8" smaller and it would indeed look bad. That monitor is indeed a great replacement for a smaller cabinet that was originally equipped with a 19" monitor (Tube PC monitors lie about the size, that one will be within a fraction of an inch of tube size of a 19" arcade monitor).
I have never been all that thrilled with the video quality with Svideo but if you are going to go that way then I suggest using a video card that already has an SVideo out option, tossing a convertor into the mix would make it look worse. Also, that 32" tv almost certainly won't fit. I never owned that particular cabinet style but experience with lots of other big cabinets has shown me that they are usually only barely wider than the monitor that they shipped. Look for a 27" if you go the TV route, that should be the same size monitor that was already in there.
jmarket:
Thanks for the info. Well the 32" tv fell through so I wont be getting it anyway. I was able to pickup a 27" so mayebe it worked out for the best.
jmarket:
Ok I know it has been a while since i posted on this project. I have the control panel wired and working with Mala. My only issue is when I run a game none of my buttons work. Do I need to setup the buttons/controls within each game?
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