Are Medium Res monitors "backwards compatable" ?

[Stobe]

As topic states:  can a med res monitor be used to display a standard res game?

Thanks.
Stobe

[grantspain]

some monitors are dual sync,depends on your model number though
if its fixed med res then you would need some kind of converter and from what i have seen med res output converters are very pricey

[Stobe]

darnit.  I was hoping for a simple yes/no answer.  This hobby has too many unknowns


-Stobe

[northerngames]

what type of monitor is in question or were you just wondering if they all were?

[Stobe]

That's the problem.  I don't own it yet.  But its in a sega naomi cabinet, if that helps any?  (probably not, lol)

-Stobe

[grantspain]

sega naomi standard monitors are sanwa 29es31 and nanao 2932 which are both high res 31khz
sega astro city have nanao ms8 variations 15/25khz
sega new astro city have nanao ms9 15/25khz
sometimes found in naomi cabs are multisync nanao ms2931
 you can see from this small choice the different type of monitors that can found

 if it is a sega naomi cab that is running a naomi mobo setup of any kind then it can only be a 31khz or 15khz monitor as naomi does not support 25khz

 if you find the game that is installed in the cab then you id the frequency

[Stobe]

ok, its current;y running virtua tennis, and has some virtua golf burn-in on it.

Thanks so far for all the help!

-Stobe

[grantspain]

31khz for sure,15khz to 31khz converters are cheap if you want to jamma games

[Stobe]

31khz for sure,15khz to 31khz converters are cheap if you want to jamma games

Cool thanks.  Do you have a link to an example converter that would work good to play stand res jamma games in that cab?

[grantspain]

http://alvaamusement.com/_wsn/page4.html
http://cgi.ebay.com/RGB-CGA-to-VGA-480i-Componet-to-VGA-Converter-Scaler_W0QQitemZ250226589867QQihZ015QQcategoryZ15077QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[northerngames]

those are cool.