Jakks and Computer monitor

[eccs19]

I've searched (without much luck), to see if I could find any information on hooking up one of these Jakks Pacman / Ms. Pacman up to a old PC monitor.  Anyone do this?  If so, how did you do it?

[RayB]

I don't think composite to multisync is possible. Not without an expensive convertor.

[fredster]

Yeah, one is RGB and the other is NTSC. Not compatable.

You'd have to find a NTSC to RGB converter. They make them, and I think there are schematics for them too.

[MaximRecoil]

You could do it through a PC into a monitor if you had a video card with composite input, like any capture card has (ATI All-In-Wonder is a common one). That would probably defeat the purpose though, because if you are going to have a PC hooked up you might as well use MAME or whatever.

[Kremmit]

It's easy:

• First, clean the old PC monitor up.
• Sell the old PC monitor.
• Buy an old used TV with the money you got from the monitor.
• Hook the Jakk's unit up to the TV.

[DrewKaree]

Kremmit's got the least expensive solution, unless Windex or 409 is like $20 a gallon in your area   The things to build end up costing about the same as the converters you can purchase, which run about $100.  I thought this same thing when first getting mine, and searched far and wide for that solution.  It is a no-dice situation.

[eccs19]

Well thanks all.

[fredster]

Your last hope is to search RGVAC and see if somebody has come up with a solution to this.

I did sometime back and there is a way to do this using a monitor, but it requires some hacking.


BTW, used monitors are worthless now.  You can hope to get $20 if it's nice.

[eccs19]

BTW, used monitors are worthless now.

[DrewKaree]

Wal-Mart had a nice little $60 tv (Durabrand?) that had all the requirements to be able to be used to hack this into a bartop if you were so inclined.  Less than the $100 converters

[Crowley]

*fanfare*
Yay for Lik-Sang!
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=219&products_id=3166&
$50, but it's worth it if you ask me.

[Kremmit]

Interesting.  I didn't know those things were getting so cheap.

I see they've also got this one:
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=219&products_id=3235

[Grasshopper]

The first one looks better because it has component input.