Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Consoles => Topic started by: deadpool18 on July 01, 2008, 11:54:42 am
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Has anyone tried playing either an SNES, N64, or even an NES on a VGA monitor. I have an old VGA LCD monitor laying around, and I was thinking of building a bartop with either a N64 or a Retroduo (snes/nes clone).
I saw this:
http://www.amazon.com/INNOVATION-TECHNOLOGIES-GameCube-VGA-Box/dp/B0001YM06W
which works on N64/SNES/Gamecube according to the box. I realize that it won't work with the Retroduo (only standard RCA/S-Video connection) and I have no interest in building a Gamecube bartop. However, I have an old N64, LCD monitor, and a Madcatz Arcade Shark joystick. I thought it might be a fun project to build a bartop with those components.
My main question is, how will the image look on the monitor? Will it be too blurry or pixelated. I'm also interested to know how snes/nes games would look on a vga monitor if I buy a different adapter. Does anyone have any experience directly connecting (not through video card or emulation) one of these old consoles to a computer monitor? Thanks!
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n64 runs at 15K like a arcade monitor so it will require a converter or vga adapter but I am not sure what the outcome would look like.
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NES only does RF or composite output right? That's gonna look pretty terrible on a VGA display. I think it'd be far easier to put together a cheap 500-1000mhz PC and emulate it. I have however read that you could swap the PPU on an NES with that of a Play Choice 10 arcade board and the NES will then output NTSC RGB video instead and that'd be compatable with what ever arcade monitors the PlayChoice's used. But emulation sounds a LOT easier.