27" Neotec or Wells Garden?

[spookcomix]

Hello all.

My buddies and I are building three cabinets.  I'm trying to decide between the following:

The Wells-Gardner D9200 (I've been assured by WG that this latest iteration supports 800x600) at $495:
http://www.wellsgardner.com/wellsgardner31/finditem.cfm?itemid=1539

...or the Neotec 27" Trisync, model NT-500DXB7 at $440:
http://www.neotecgraphic.com/trisync-27.htm

My question is, will both of these monitors support all the old MAME games (like Pac-Man) and the newer, higher resolution ones?  Using a standard video card, such as a GeForce 2 Ti, will I experience any problems?

Do any of you have experience with either of these monitors?  Pros?  Cons?  All help is appreciated.

[tom61]

Both monitors will have little trouble running arcade games of any era (that's the whole point of a tri-sync/hybrid monitor). You need to use Advance Mame to get 15kHz (what most games natively used), and 24kHz (fewer games) to get it looking arcade perfect. Advance Mame isn't the easiest to configure. If you just use regular Mame, you're running at 31kHz (unless you get the ArcadeVGA card), which doesn't look as good.

[spookcomix]

In that case, do you recommend getting the ArcadeVGA card to run with either of these monitors?

Thanks for the reply!

[tom61]

The ArcadeVGA will make it easy to get the 15kHz modes both monitors can use, and the D9200 utility lets you use the 31kHz mode too. However, you'll still need Advance Mame for the 24kHz to look perfect, but most with the ArcadeVga and tri-sync monitors use 640x480 for 24kHz/Medium res games and turn on hardware stretching.

It's really up to you, if you're only going for 15kHz modes, the ArcadeVGA will get you there quickly and easily. If you're going to configure Advance Mame anyway to get the 24kHz modes, why bother with the ArcadeVGA's expense?

If you don't know, just get the ArcadeVGA, then if you decide you need 24kHz, you can setup AdvanceMame then.

[squizz]

 Is there an easy setup for 24kHz mode using advancemame ?

   I too was leaning towards the ArcadeVGA card, but would like all functions.

  and it seems that andy isnt to interested in doing a fix for the 24kHz mode atm.
 

[dhansen]

Is there an easy setup for 24kHz mode using advancemame ?

   I too was leaning towards the ArcadeVGA card, but would like all functions.

  and it seems that andy isnt to interested in doing a fix for the 24kHz mode atm.
 

Check out easymame cab, it might work for you...

easymamecab.mameworld.net

Doug