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What type of monitor connection is best?
slapaham:
I'm sure I know what the answer will be on this but thought I'd ask - I got a load of touchscreen CRT monitors and I saw that at least one of them had composite connections as well as (obviously) VGA. I'm guessing for the best look to an arcade game I would opt for the composite connection over the VGA?
I'm thinking of building an Xbox MAME cab with one sometime in the future possibly...
Ginsu Victim:
Composite is horrible no matter what. Go VGA.
Do you mean component?
Jack Burton:
Arcade monitors are connected via a type of RGBS or RGBHV cable.
A vga cable is very very similar to that.
A composite connection will introduce NTSC interference and artifacts that arcade games never had.
slapaham:
I think I must have got the wrong end of the stick then! :banghead:
I have heard a lot of people saying that CRT TVs are great for displaying MAME games - but perhaps these are American TVs? From what I've gathered, NTSC TVs use S-Video while PAL TVs use composite or scart...
Jack Burton:
No no no no no. You have gotten the RIGHT end of the stick indeed.
If these monitors have composite connections then that means they are able to display the low resolutions needed by arcade games without any scaling.
With this monitor you should be able to make it look *exactly* like an arcade monitor with the use of an arcadeVGA graphics card or a program called Soft 15khz.
If you will make a thread with the model of your monitors in the monitor forum I'm sure we can help you along.
I don't think you should use an Xbox for your cab. There's no way to take full control of the potential of a low-res touchscreen monitor with an Xbox.
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