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Nice game to choose for the pics. It looks fantastic and nice work homework on breaking in. There's a lot to be said for the quality on smaller BVMs. Congrats!
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Nice game to choose for the pics. It looks fantastic and nice work homework on breaking in. There's a lot to be said for the quality on smaller BVMs. Congrats!
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Here's my BVM-1311 I just bought!
It has the service switches on the inside of the pullout panels/trays. Problem was they were locked and the seller didn't have the keys. When I first tested it out, the sync was set to Internal and I couldn't get a stable image. But for the brief moments it did stabilize, I could tell the image looked good. So instead of drilling out the locks, I ended up learning how to pick them from online tutorials. With a split bobby pin and was able to get them unlocked within a couple minutes:
here is where my setting switches are:
I was able to get it to switch to External Sync and voila!
teh sex
Happy I was able to get in easily. Everything looks great, convergence is sweet, straightened up the bowing, perfect image. And now with my new lock picking skills I can begin my career as a master thief!
Visual Gold
Thanks for the info, funny you were talking about a 2950, I just picked one up for free in great working condition last week. Goes with my 2030 and 2530
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Nice work and nice monitor! Lock picking is a great skill in the arcade hobby.
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Yeah it's awesome how many skills/knowledge I've picked up over the years in this hobby. Lockpicking just adds another one to the list! Now every time I see a lock I think to myself, 'I wonder if I can pick that?' Lol
The next step is practice locks and getting a new deadbolt on your house lol
Yeah it's awesome how many skills/knowledge I've picked up over the years in this hobby. Lockpicking just adds another one to the list! Now every time I see a lock I think to myself, 'I wonder if I can pick that?' Lol
You'll not need your framemeister now... ;-)
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Yeah it's awesome how many skills/knowledge I've picked up over the years in this hobby. Lockpicking just adds another one to the list! Now every time I see a lock I think to myself, 'I wonder if I can pick that?' Lol
You are the Neo Version of Sam Fisher.
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2 years ago at FreePlay FL. Myself, Owlnonymous, Wyo, and Punkic_cyborg's monitors. Mine are one of the XM29's the 25" PVM and a couple of the 14"s.
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It is but it's not going to look the same. You might need to fiddle with the Component to Rgb Converter to get it to look right. Might want to check out Fusion's Rgb to Component unit. I still got my 27 inch Wega in Storage but it's just too much of a pain in the ass to setup.
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I have one coming soon, I too, will run it on my 27" wega via my xrgb2+ to fusion box to wega.
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Neodogg,
Do you mind putting up some pics when you get it up and running? Would love to see it in action!
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Greetings NG. I love CRT gaming, right now I am using a PVM 20L5. I'm aiming to get all my consoles hooked up in RGB, or Component. NES (Analogue NT ver 2), SNES (SFC 1 CHIP), Genesis, Dreamcast (through a Toro box and Extron Rxi) are all RGB right now, but the N64 is still composite. PS2 and Wii are component. I use flash carts in all systems, the DC has a GDEMU, the PS2 is soft modded with a memory card, Wii soft modded with a 1TB USB hard drive, including Gamecube games since its original model Wii. I'd like to add a Saturn with Rhea via RGB, get my orig XBOX via component in there. Its all running through a Extron Crosspoint switch that unfortunately is only 8x4, I need a 12x4 soon. I'd like to buy an RGB modded PC Engine, and get some kind of PC added in for giggles. I have an OSSC but have not yet added an LCD tv to the setup. Right now my main goal is to get a candy cab MAME setup. I'm in California bay area and am told this is the state to be in for acquiring one!
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My SB-2840 ShinyBow is perfect out of the box as well in terms of color balance.
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As is my Key Digital KD-VTCA3
Admittedly, harder to come by at a reasonable price, but still. It's the cheaper CSY-2100 clones that tend to require adjusting.
http://imgur.com/a/TVUxb
Admittedly, harder to come by at a reasonable price, but still. It's the cheaper CSY-2100 clones that tend to require adjusting.
http://imgur.com/a/TVUxb
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XRGB-2 paired with a Viewsonic CRT.
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Give you an idea of the detail. It's almost too sharp.
lolifoxgirl
Rot., Rot., Rot.
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On trinitrons the fusion converter is nice. I use it on mine. There are some that prefer using the component cables from that one company, but if you have your scart game set up its simple to just run it into a converter.
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embergabor
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Got my second CRT for retro gaming. I had a 14" Trinitron previously, but it made a very irritating noise and the geometry was all over the place so I sold it off. A few days ago I tried out an old 21" Gaba CRT (cheap local brand I think) at my grandmother's house. It was working, it had SCART input, so I hauled the thing home only to find out that my Speedlink Playstation RGB cable had no RGB whatsoever. Turns out that the cheap buggers did not connect pin 16 so the scart connector didn't have the RGB mode signal. I soldered a 180 ohm resistor between pins 8 and 16 and that was it. Now the PS1 and PS2 can output a nice and clean RGB signal to the tv. Of course the image quality is not amazing, but for the incredible price of exacly $0 it was a real bargain.
