Hello everyone who would have thought I would find a fourm on Neo Geo Cabinet? Awesome. I purchased and rescued an MVS-2 Neo Geo cabinet and have been slowly getting it ready for a mame cabinet. Most of the VGA moniotrs I have been looking at are 27 inch monitors and I was Just wondering if anyone here was able to get a 27 inch monitor in the MVS 2 system without tearing up the cabinet too much? Or if anyone would reccomend a good 25 inch monitor that dosn't require an isolation transformer and preffarbly can plug into your pc's vga port. 800x600 resolution is a big plus too.
Will a 27 inch fit? Or 25 inch reccomendations.
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That's a pretty shitty rescue.
Well judging from the replys I got, your group must really be into preserving the original hardware of a neo geo cabinet and dislike the idea of a pc conversion. Well if it makes you feel any better I bought it nonworking from a small arcade vendor and do actually have it working now, but Street Slam and Bust A Move gets old after awhile. It would have been destroyed anyway so I still count it as a rescue. I won't bother you anymore unless I restore another cabinet and use the original neo geo hardware, but that is about appealing to me as it would be for you to build a pc cabinet. Thanks anyways.
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Murdock said:
easy fella.
http://www.ultimarc.com/jpac.html
That'll convert the image from the PC to be usable by the arcade's monitor, assuming that you can convert it to JAMMA somehow.
ONe of the joys of playing on an arcade machine, sadly, is the quality of the nice monitor.
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Murdock said:
What's disgusting is that you want to put a VGA monitor in it instead of keeping the original one and running the games at their original resolutions. Properly configuring advancemame is beyond your skills eh?
In the end:
mamecab with 15khz monitor and advancemame (or arcadevga)
mamecab with 31khz monitor
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Murdock said:
You may find the cab will accept the 27" crt, the 25" cab specs refer to the viewable area, ie with the bezel in place.
Regarding the other issue, have you considered a jpac http://www.ultimarc.com/jpac.html , this allows you to play PC games in a jamma cab (low/med res monitor)
I got mine two years ago and still havent got around to fitting it to a cab yet
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MKL said:What's disgusting is that you want to put a VGA monitor in it instead of keeping the original one and running the games at their original resolutions. Properly configuring advancemame is beyond your skills eh?
In the end:
mamecab with 15khz monitor and advancemame (or arcadevga)
mamecab with 31khz monitorvery very sad...
Well I was looking at a D9200 from Wells-Gardner http://www.wellsgardner.com/wellsgardner31/finditem.cfm?itemid=691 with an ArcadeVGA card. I should have mentioned this in my first post, my bad. I have no intention of using a computer monitor in my cabinet. (What would be the fun in that?) As far as configuring advancemame, I doubt it can be too hard, but I am working on the hardware at the moment. I will give it a look in the future.
Thankyou very much ttooddddyy for awnsering my question.
As far as the hard core NeoGeo hardware fans, if it makes you feel any better, alot of the parts I don't use, but do work won't be thrown away, but sold on ebay or to a local vendor.
I can still tell that this fourm is definitly not the right place for me and I won't post again, but I did want to thank ttooddddyy for the reply.