The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: Austin.Wolff on September 09, 2007, 07:09:53 pm
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Seeing as arcade monitors at 27" seem to be in the $500 range, I figured I'd look at 27" crt monitors, which you can basically pick up for you. Do you figure its worth it to use until I decide to buy an arcade monitor? How different is the picture?
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Oh, and I more or less figured this out. I booted up mame on my laptop and 27" TV, looks pretty good. Nothing I'm going to be running is THAT odl, so I think I can get by.
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I say get whatever you can live with. If this is your first cab and you are playing mostly newer (90’s) games, I say go with a TV. No use paying $300 extra if you just want to play the games and have fun. Much cheaper, and usually easier to set up. May be a little tricky to mount in a cab, but it can be done easily.
If you want authentic arcade resolution, get a CGA arcade monitor. You will probably spend lots of time experimenting with proper resolutions and settings for each game.
Personally, I have a 27" TV in my first MAME cab and I am very happy with it.
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Oh, and I more or less figured this out. I booted up mame on my laptop and 27" TV, looks pretty good. Nothing I'm going to be running is THAT odl, so I think I can get by.
what did you use, S-Video (most older TVs) or straight to VGA or DVI (recent TVs have those now)?
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S-video. The screen was blurry for windows etc but using a front end it looks great.