djwolf Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 hay guys, i have recently got my self a arcade cab with ms2 in it. it needs a little work, i am hoping to convert it to a mame cab. now comes my little problem i have made up a wireing harness to go from vga to the arcade monitor,ofcorse it doesnt work(silly me). is there a way to force lower rezilotion and refresh rates? will i need to run a diferent front end?(lm using Maximus Arcade atm) here is some pics for who is interested. got to love how my 2 nephew's got to it befor me lol if anyone has any info on my monitor it would be great :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 AdamC Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 What you need is a J-PAC Keyboard Encoder or a ArcadeVGA Video Card You can get these at Ozstick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 djwolf Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 i have heard of the use of programs like soft15khz witch i belive suports my 6600gt, bit to late atm but i will be try to try it out tomorrow if all fails looks like lm up for a arcadevga if i end up going the arcadevga do i also need one of thoes vga amps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 li_gangyi Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 You can try the soft15Khz thingy, but make sure you only turn on the monitor when the program is started, else you could damage the monitor. There's a Jpac Jamma thingy that 'solves' this problem by making sure the sync frequency is at 15Khz (or whichever is supported, you can set via jumpers IIRC) before passing it to the monitor. I don't think you'll need a VGA amp with arcade VGA. I might be wrong though. Heck I say you keep this neogeo machine as it is and build another mame machine :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hewitson Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Heck I say you keep this neogeo machine as it is and build another mame machine :laugh: Couldn't agree more. Why convert something good into a heap of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 djwolf Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 i dont have the room atm to keep stacking up on cabs or build one, i live in a unit ;P so i got this cab with the intentions of restoring it, its got burns all over it and controll pannel is a heep of shit :P i want all my old fav nes games on there watching one of thoes jamma 1000in1 red boxes boot up they also seem to have a incorect sync frequency untill the front end starts they also cas demage to the monitor? thanks for the help guys, i need to think about what i wanna do now :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Administrators Arcade King Posted April 12, 2009 Administrators Share Posted April 12, 2009 You can try the soft15Khz thingy, but make sure you only turn on the monitor when the program is started, else you could damage the monitor. There's a Jpac Jamma thingy that 'solves' this problem by making sure the sync frequency is at 15Khz (or whichever is supported, you can set via jumpers IIRC) before passing it to the monitor. I don't think you'll need a VGA amp with arcade VGA. I might be wrong though. Heck I say you keep this neogeo machine as it is and build another mame machine :laugh: If using soft15k all you need is a Jpac which automatically splits the 31k to 15k until windows boots. no need to leave screen off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 djwolf Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 sounds good, also cheaper ;P do most arcade monitors suport 640x480 or will i need to run a lower res? thanks for the help btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Administrators Arcade King Posted April 12, 2009 Administrators Share Posted April 12, 2009 640x480 is the max you can have at 15k but the trick is to set up mame to run the games at their native resolutions (or as close to it as possible) Theres plenty of topics on how to do it on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 djwolf Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 ya sweet once i have got the computer working on the arcade monitor i will then work out all that this is very painfull but fun at the same time :) learning lots of new stuff all the point of this project :) just nice there seems to always be sombody helpfull in here which is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hay guys, i have recently got my self a arcade cab with ms2 in it.
it needs a little work, i am hoping to convert it to a mame cab.
now comes my little problem i have made up a wireing harness to go from vga
to the arcade monitor,ofcorse it doesnt work(silly me). is there a way to force lower rezilotion and refresh rates?
will i need to run a diferent front end?(lm using Maximus Arcade atm)
here is some pics for who is interested.
got to love how my 2 nephew's got to it befor me lol
if anyone has any info on my monitor it would be great :)
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