Super Neo 29 LCD screen...Working!

[Raven..]

Ok, I just bought a few candy cabs and two still have the LCD screens.  I am not going to replace the missing HyperNeo 64 systems.  Does anybody know how to hack this LCD panel to use with either a regular JAMMA boards, or with a MAME setup?

Thanks!

[Raven..]

Check this out!  One of the cabs still had the board that is used to link cabs together (two were a matched set).  I hooked up the JAMMA harness for power, plugged in a cheap DVD player to what looked like a composite video connector, flipped some switches and VOILA!  I was watching Big Momma's House 2!

I need to figure out more of the screen adjustments.  This sure would be a LOT easier if I could read Japanese!!!

[Raven..]

BTW, it actually looks beter than that.  These were taken outside, at night with my halogen work lamp shining on the screen, and my camera flash on.  Not really that washed out or has that much glare.

[Hiub1]

So what the heck does that screen do?

[Kevin Mullins]

Can ya take a pic of the entire cab ?

Doesn't look quite like the candy cab I was thinking.
(didn't know there was an LCD version)
Looks like those could be of many great uses.......

[Raven..]

I'll take full pics later.  These are Super Neo 29 Type II cabs, originally set up with Hyper NeoGeo 64 systems.  They used the LCDs for linked play.  There is also a small CCD camera in the marquee panel, beside the LCD screen.  Basically, you can paly one one cab and see your friend plaig against you on the little screen. 

Some of these cabs have also been used for NeoGeo MVS systems.  Sometimes the LCD screen displaed the mini-marquee of the game.  Other ones I've seen show the acual game being played up there as well....for the crowd around to worship your mighty gaming skills.

I wish I had the pinouts for the monitor connector....or that I could read Japanese (I have the manual).

[Hiub1]

Post a pic of the connector. Can't be impossible to figure out. Neat little LCD though!

[Raven..]

Post a pic of the connector. Can't be impossible to figure out. Neat little LCD though!

Try and figure this thing out!  Nothing but alternating black and white wires on both ends.

[Hiub1]

I have a friend who is majoring in Japanese. I'll have him take a look at it. I am sure the words have to be elemental, like red, blue, ground, etc. We'll see if he can figure it out.

[Raven..]

So I guess this means nobody here can read Japanese?

[Howard_Casto]

I know a way, but you won't like it. 


Cut and re-connect the wires one at a time (giving enough slack to re-splice them of course).

No green, that one was green, no blue, that's blue, no picture that's sync/sync return.

[StuckInJapan]

Japanese ability won't help at all...the pic you put up on reply #7
just has instructions for making adjustments to the picture on the LCD.
 
                      []               []                 []               []
               Contrast    Brightness    Hue/Tint    Sharpness

                      []               []                 []
                      Up            Down        (Restore Value to) Default

Try posting pages from the manual if you have it.

[Raven..]

That at lest helps me adjust the monitor!  I'll post maual pages later.

THANKS!!

[Raven..]

So over 4 years later, I am finally getting around to these candy cabs!  I cleaned up the first one and it's sitting in my dining room with a MAME system running in it for my daughter to play Penguin Brothers.

The second one is in pieces in my garage.  The sudden change in weather prompted me to get out there and strip that bad boy down completely.  I would have kept working on it, but we have coyotes here, and I kept hearing them getting closer to my house.  Tomorrow is garbage day, and they get excited I guess.

[Gray_Area]

Now you really have to include full pictures. Video even.

[Raven..]

No pics of the first one...guess I should take some, but here is the second one.  This was absolutely the FILTHIEST machine I have ever laid hands on.  I should have taken a lot of before and during pics, but here is the after anyway.  It's not completely finished, as I still need to change out the final buttons and get a new P2 start.

[Gray_Area]

Nice, thanks. Two questions:

a. I notice in those pictures the monitor seems to be producing scanlines. ?

b. is that cabinet made for a flat screen monitor, or is it just the bezel that accommodates it?

[terence]

Any update on the super neo 29 lcd?

Thanks