Sanyo 20EZ MAME

[kevvy2006]

Hello Guys,

I have been working on my Cabinet the past few days and I am reading up that the monitor in my Nintendo VS Unisystem Upright cab is not really a good monitor to MAME.  Not sure if this is true so here are a few questions if anyone knows

Are all the Sanyo 20EZ Monitors have inverted colors?  I will be getting a VGA cable that i can place the pins directly onto the monitor but if the colors are inverted i assume this will not work (or will it?).

What is the resolution and the refresh rate (of the Sanyo 20EZ), since i know Nintendo did things very backwards.  Is it the standard 15khz like on other arcade monitors?

Since I am doing a complete rebuild anyway is it worth it to just sell the monitors and get LCD monitors with the cash or am i making a big mistake by doing this?

Hopefully there is someone that has worked with this before, maybe just worth it to sell off the cabinet if you guys think its not great to mame.  You can see pics in my Signature.

[baritonomarchetto]

I don't see any technical drawback in using a sanyo EZ for your mamecab. The monitor doesn't need "inverted colors" as input (the game pcb sends inverted colors and an additional board is required to correctly show those nintendo games on sanyos, like on every other monitor) and it's a good standard res (CGA, so you cannot plug a VGA cable/signal directly) monitor overall.

[CraftyMech]

I don't see any technical drawback in using a sanyo EZ for your mamecab. The monitor doesn't need "inverted colors" as input (the game pcb sends inverted colors and an additional board is required to correctly show those nintendo games on sanyos, like on every other monitor) and it's a good standard res (CGA, so you cannot plug a VGA cable/signal directly) monitor overall.

Sanyo EZ20's do require inverted inputs if you connect directly to the signal header on the chassis. The additional board you mentioned is the "inverter board" and is only required if you are trying to display standard (non-inverted) video on a Sanyo. Otherwise the video from Nintendo game boards (DK, Popeye, etc.) can be connected to the video signal header on the chassis.

[baritonomarchetto]

Up to my head it worked as i descibed, sorry for the wrong advice