So you can run any card with a D9200?

[SpAwN]

I've read a lot of the older threads on D9200's, most end in debate on which card to run.

I'm just looking for some clarification. Any good card running with AdvanceMame will take full advantage of the D9200?

I'd appreciate some guidence in choosing a video card, I'd like to get an AGP card.

Sorry, for the total Newbie question, but I want to make sure I take full advantage of this D9200!

[bigmoe]

I've read a lot of the older threads on D9200's, most end in debate on which card to run.

I'm just looking for some clarification. Any good card running with AdvanceMame will take full advantage of the D9200?

I'd appreciate some guidence in choosing a video card, I'd like to get an AGP card.

Sorry, for the total Newbie question, but I want to make sure I take full advantage of this D9200!

Understandable, given the investment!

I have no hardware, but I've followed the threads...my understanding is, no, not all cards will take "full advantage" of the D9200.  Only SOME of the cards are reprogrammable by AdvanceMAME.  

It appears that the most powerful card is a variant of the Built-by-ATI Radeon 7500.  desmatic has verified that the 7500 will run it in the proper modes.  (Quote by desmatic from another thread: "The 8500 will not work.  An ATI 7500 (original chipset release, built by ATI) will work flawlessly with win98se and AdvanceMAME on the D9200.  They only thing that won't work are interlace modes, which you won't need.")

That said, you can probably hook up ANY card to the D9200--and just use it as an expensive VGA monitor.  But you have to have a special card--desmatic's site ( http://easymamecab.mameworld.net/html/hardware.htm ) lists some--to run the D9200 at the arcade-monitor refresh rates.

Hopefully someone else can verify this, but that's how I understand it.

bm

[SpAwN]

Thanks for the reply.

I just read through the website you pointed out. The 7500 sounds like a great card, but then I read this under the D9200 section..

NO FANCY ADPATERS REQUIRED! The D9200 connects directly to a standard video card via a VGA cable. Out of the box, it runs just great on either Windows, DOS, or Linux. No fancy drivers or software needed! Just plug it in, hook it up to your PC, and boot -- it's that simple. PC games look great! DVD titles look unbelievable! And the way MAME looks will absolutely blow you away! You can watch Pacman flicker at 15kHz, then play 720 degrees at 25kHz, then blow away a few bad guys in Quake or watch a movie at 31.5 kHz -- it's all doable.

So, all you need is any standard video card?

[F|end]

If that monitor+ any agp grcard+ advancemame are so perfect, why do i need a Arcade Vga?  

Sorry if this is a ignorant post but i would really like to know...

I got confused now...

[android]

In a nutshell: yes. You can run the D9200 with ANY card that spits out standard VGA up to 800x600. Just plug and play as the website says. However if you run regular mame, some games will have big black margins, and other won't fit quite well within the screen. That's why you need Advance Mame: with it, you can tweak your resolutions so that you get perfect emulation in every game. By perfect emulation I mean your game will look identically as it looked in the original arcade monitor.

[SpAwN]

So, if you can run any card with the D9200 and use AdvanceMame to get near perfect emulation. Why does the easycab site say only specific cards will work?

Will as basic ATI 9000 work? Is the limiting factor which chipsets Advancemame can use? So, any of the cards supported by Advancemame will work?

[android]

Because although the D9200 will work with any svga card, advance mame only works with a few of them. So yes, any of the cards supported by advance mame will work with the d9200 (as they are all svga and hence will be supported by the d9200)