Who here used a TV in their Mame cabinet?

For my mame project I had a spare 17"LCD, a 19"CRT monitor, a 21"CRT monitor and a 58cm TV to play with. I have tried all and have opted for the 21"CRT monitor. The particular 21" monitor I have has a better viewing angle than the TV. This is important to me as I have a couple of short-arsed rug rats that I am training to be introverted nerds like me. I am also using my cabinet for internet browsing and newish PC games like NFS, etc.

 

The downside is the monitor is 600mm deep and now my cabinet (under construction) is 1100mm deep.

 

Moose.

oops, must have been thinking the word "schmuck" in the back of my mind when typing, cos that's what I feel like.:redface

 

But thank you for your clear and concise post once again Elvis. Cleared up a lot of questions in one.

 

or maybe SEUCK (the Shoot Em Up Construction Kit) for the C64

You guys might be interested in this .....I dont know ...BUT he seems to know what he's talking about

 

http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/scart.htm

 

The only problem with SCART for MAME is that it's fixed frequency. You will loose a few lines when playing certain games, as illustrated here.

The only problem with SCART for MAME is that it's fixed frequency. You will loose a few lines when playing certain games, as illustrated here.

 

Well there you go ...thats interesting info...i'm glad you shared it

I have 670mm wide cab with a 68cm tv in there (decased) with little room either side to spare, although i built the cab with that TV in mind, and im sure there are slightly slimmer models than the one i dumped in there.

 

Speaking of pimping cabs trackballs rock (thats what i got from my girlfriend for xmas this year)

got from my gf/f?

whats that a pimping cab or a track bal lol

The only problem with SCART for MAME is that it's fixed frequency. You will loose a few lines when playing certain games, as illustrated here.

 

And despite which, after looking through the work involved hooking up the scart connection with the auto frequency switch off and everything, who the hell would want to go to all that trouble? Bleurk!

 

Colt.

who the hell would want to go to all that trouble?

 

Me. :)

 

Oh, and nice thread resurrect too. Had you waited another 30 days, it would have been a year since the last post!

So Elvis, now that this thread has been started up again are we taking it out for a spin????

Yeah why not. I can talk 15KHz RGB all day. :)

LOL. I only stumbled upon this thread cause I was looking into monitor options.... and failed to notice the last post date. :redface

 

Oh well, it's good info for those who need it.

 

Colt.

I used a TEAK 68cm with a scart connector looks at using the VGA to RGB wiring but stuck with Video in using 640x480 on windows XP witch is odd how hard it is to get the res on the new video card with 16bit + colours.

 

Found the +12v on pin 8 trick to auto switch to the AV input and it all looks sweet.

I used a TEAK 68cm with a scart connector looks at using the VGA to RGB wiring but stuck with Video in using 640x480 on windows

SCART doesn't support 640x480@60Hz progressive scan (31KHz), which means you're probably sending an interlaced picture to your screen.

interlaced I would say so. But it was the only res that the text was readable and clear in the games.

 

Still it works and that was the main thing and it saved the TV from the land fill. :D

Planning on decasing my sturdy old TV, using the CRT and speakers in my cab, putting the chassis in my electronics junk drawer for components, dremmeling round the front of the case to use the original bezel (save me finding an arcade one), and putting the rest of the plastic casing in the recycling. About as green as possible really.