Replacement suggestions for a sit down Crus'n USA

[eclipso]

I would like some suggestions on what I should put into my cab, I have looked around but would hate to make an uneducated purchase.

[twistedsymphony]

Whatever you can get for a 27" Tri-Sync...

Unless you want to drop $600 on a new Makvision (which is pretty mediocre monitor) you're stuck taking whatever you can find.

Nanao MS-2930/1/2/3/4
WG D9200
NeoTec NT-500DX
etc..

take what you can find.

Obviously you can get a Medium Resolution monitor instead (that's what Cruis'n uses from the factory IIRC) but they're just as hard to find and have way less flexibility if you plan to swap games or run a MAME setup.

I'm partial to the MS-2930 series personally, great picture great reliability, the D9200 and 500DX both have great image quality but poor reliability. Makvision stuff is pretty middle of the road across the board but it has the benefit of being NEW and not 15-20 years old before it lands in your hands.

I own at least one of everything listed here, I'd love to hear suggestions for other Tri-Syncs.

[eclipso]

That's part of the problem, not having any luck finding anything in a 25 or 27 crt and I really don't want to drop 600 on a Mak.

[twistedsymphony]

That's part of the problem, not having any luck finding anything in a 25 or 27 crt and I really don't want to drop 600 on a Mak.

I ran into a similar issue recently... it's mostly about being patient and keeping close tabs on Craigslist or other local listings.

I bought 3 San Fran Rush sit-down cabs. 1 had a good monitor, 1 had a monitor that worked but a really crappy picture and the third was missing a monitor because the previous owner had cracked the tube and threw it out.  I wanted to keep 2 of the machines and fix up/resell the third so kept an eye on craigslist. Further, the machines I was keeping I wanted to use tri-syncs since I wanted the option to run MAME setups at 640x480 instead of dealing with medium resolution.

after a few weeks I found someone selling a pretty much brand new a 27" Makvision for $100... some kid who thought he was going to build a machine and never got anywhere... obviously this was an amazing deal but ... a couple of months later I found someone selling a "Faster than Speed" sit-down cab for $350. i didn't have room for the machine so I offered to give him his $350 asking price if he let me strip and take just the electronics including the monitor, he agreed... I resold the Atomiswave setup and a few other parts and got about $300 back out of the deal leaving me with a beautiful $50 Wells Gardner D9200... and some other lucky guy got a sit-down driving cab with a wheel, pedals, and a seat for free since the seller gave away what I left.


It took a couple of months of diligently and patiently watching Craigslist for the right deals but now I've got 2 great tri-syncs to go in to the two cabs I'm keeping and 1 good medium res left over to go into the cab I plan on reselling.

[lilshawn]

keep an eye on that d9200. constantly check the caps.

the power supply is a real mess and spread out all over the board. if it craps out, it has a nasty habit of taking out 1/2 to 3/4 of the components on the board rendering it nearly impossible to repair.

[Rickn]

we sell our 26" LCD complete with mounting bezel. Yes it is 16:9 but looks great.

Email me you have an interest?

ick@niemandisplays.com

[twistedsymphony]

we sell our 26" LCD complete with mounting bezel. Yes it is 16:9 but looks great.

Email me you have an interest?

ick@niemandisplays.com

Not to go too far off topic but is there a reason a company like yourselves can't have 4:3 LCDs made in 25" and 27" sizes?

I know you think these games  "look great" in widescreen but I cringe every time I see oval wheels and fat-chicks at the finish line due to all the stretching. LCDs are fine for Med and VGA resolution games but the limitation of wide-screen ratios kills it IMO.

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I guess I don't understand why you couldn't have custom monitors made that used all the same electronics as a widescreen display but with the edges of the display portion chopped off... set it up to "black bar" the image... I've seen "broken" displays that have had the edges separated from the rest of the display I don't see why it couldn't be manufactured that way.

I'd love to have an nice big LCD in my driving cabs, I'd gladly pay MakVision Tri-Sync prices for them, but I'd rather have the machine down and unplayable then look at some goofy-looking stretched image on wide-screen.

[Rickn]

Sorry, but as the industry ... both arcade and television have switched to LCD, the TV market which has well over 20X the market drives the glass manufacturers.
In fact it may not be long before the 26" is not available as everyone is going for larger size.
Wish I had a better answer, but it is out of my control.

Rick

[Tithis]

I'm not sure how comfortable you are around electronics but you could build an arcade monitor.

For my project I ended up going in buying a lot of 3 TV's from a guy. 2 of them have tubes that can be used with my 25" K7000 chassis without swapping a yolk and the 3rd one can be used in a 19" G07 chassis. Tubes are very long lived and rarely are the part that failed in a broken TV.

thearcadebuffett.com sells fully rebuilt 25" k7000 chassis for $130. If you really wanted to you could also buy a frame and have a complete monitor, depending on the setup though you could probably mount the chassis somewhere on the cabinet too. If you wanted a frame I know the arcade boneyard has some for $30-$50.