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Must be literally THE worst feeling in the videogaming world.
You had a perfectly good working arcade machine and now you've destroyed it, all by yourself.
I wouldn't be able to sleep at night
It'd be so traumatic I'm pretty sure it would turn me into Batman or some other sort of vigilante.0 -
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I didn't realise there was a PC game of Raiden 3 with enhanced/changed graphics (PC and not the Taito Type X version).
Just giving it a go now, seems decent but its a Japanese PC game so the setup is all in Japanolingo so setting up joysticks takes a bit of trial and error.
Some Raiden 3 wallpaper that was on the disc.
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And I now have a new wallpaper, thanks
Having been posting much for a bit as I picked up that projector on Friday. Absolutely loving it! Blazing through films like there's no tomorrow.
Just after watching Alien. It's unreal seeing those big cinematic Nostromo scenes on such a huge projection in your living room.
Haven't played too many games on it yet. Did fire up MAME for some 120 inch Raiden 0 -
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And I now have a new wallpaper, thanks
Having been posting much for a bit as I picked up that projector on Friday. Absolutely loving it! Blazing through films like there's no tomorrow.
Just after watching Alien. It's unreal seeing those big cinematic Nostromo scenes on such a huge projection in your living room.
Haven't played too many games on it yet. Did fire up MAME for some 120 inch Raiden
No probs, I thought someone might like them.
Yeah it's pretty cool when you start to watch the movies on a really large screen, adds something extra to them.
Here's a bit of "Raiden III" I captured earlier. I haven't got the joystick working on it just yet and I'm not great at it but you get the idea.
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34887
My cab is from the late 80s/very early 90s Japanese arcade era. It would share more in common with the Sega Aero than things like AWSDs, Egrets etc.
Tri Sync's were but a dream of the future!
Although to be honest, internally it's all pretty standard stuff. In fact the only real difference would be the monitor. Other than increasing monitor size and becoming more curvy (in a way, it's something similar to the development of Japanese car shapes!) there hasn't really been all that much change to them.0 -
It sure does
Have you got your hacked DC pads yet?
Hacked one myself, and working fine, but the dreamcast seems to randomly reset, not sure what the problem is I have a second that I have lent a friend so I need to check that.
Really wanted some border down too, House of the dead 2 \o/
This is what I'm using http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-VGA-Box-Converter-Sega-Dreamcast-AV-S-Video-DC-/200612274996?pt=UK_Video_Games_Cables_and_Adaptors&hash=item2eb56c6334#ht_1139wt_1397
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Only way I can hook it up is via a Dreamcast MGCD adapter (it's 15k only). However after the PS1 version didn't work, I'm reluctant to invest in any more of them
Hmm there's an interesting challenge, getting the DC to run at 15kHz without that MGCD yoke. I wonder would my setup, that allows me to output the 360 at 15kHz, also work with the DC and PS2 maybe (ignoring pad hacks etc)?
Scart cable to Sync Strike, VGA to Extron RGB to cab monitor.
Never play my Dreamcast but it might be interesting from a technical point of view. PS2 probably more appealing because of the couple of shmups I have for it.0 -
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Only way I can hook it up is via a Dreamcast MGCD adapter (it's 15k only). However after the PS1 version didn't work, I'm reluctant to invest in any more of themHmm there's an interesting challenge, getting the DC to run at 15kHz without that MGCD yoke. I wonder would my setup, that allows me to output the 360 at 15kHz, also work with the DC and PS2 maybe (ignoring pad hacks etc)?
Scart cable to Sync Strike, VGA to Extron RGB to cab monitor.
Never play my Dreamcast but it might be interesting from a technical point of view. PS2 probably more appealing because of the couple of shmups I have for it.
So did a little test this evening to see if the PS2 would hook up to the cab without much hassle. All I had to do was unplug the 360 scart from the Sync Strike and replace it with the PS2 scart, plug in the audio cables and everything worked a treat. PS2 running on a cab in a matter of minutes! No pad hacks ofcourse but the Namco stick is a fine alternative. The PS2 has that Matrix mod chip yoke in it so I can play all regions and backups.
Tested out Raiden DX, DDP Dai-Ou-Jou and Gradius V. DC and Saturn are packed away somewhere so couldn't test them but I'm guessing anything with RGB scart would work fine.
Full setup is: Console (rgb scart) --> Sync Strike (vga) --> Extron RGB 580xi (bnc to vga) --> video/audio switcher --> cab monitor & speakers.
Raiden DX:
DDP Dai-Ou-Jou:
Gradius V:
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Are those Extron RGB 580xi pricey?
Because now I have have to have one
A bit pricey I guess, probably talking around 70 to 80 quid to your door from eBay, got mine from the states. But you also need a BNC to VGA cable, got mine from lindy.ie for 20 quid as I was in a rush but probably cheaper elsewhere. You can use a standard PC power cable with it.
That's a fair whack of cash, to me anyway. But you do get a gorgeous low res picture.
One thing you can't see from my pics is distortion at the very top of the image, I've tweaked the vert size and position to move it out of sight as best as possible. It's above where the high score text is etc so doesn't get in the way. No idea if it's specific to my setup. I'm willing to bet o1s1n never noticed it when he had a go on the cab.0 -
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Somethings not quite right about this picture :pac: its almost as if the Raiden world is on its side ! :pac:
OI! Back in your box COD kiddie. Pew pew! BOOM! Headshot! In your face sucka! Reload reload. And all that...
Post that in the Games forum, & bask in the onslaught of confusion and anger from the natives
Lol they all about the HD graphics over there now? Too much tripe spouted over there tbh, never really bother with it.0 -
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OI! Back in your box COD kiddie. Pew pew! BOOM! Headshot! In your face sucka! Reload reload. And all that...
Lol they all about the HD graphics over there now? Too much tripe spouted over there tbh, never really bother with it.
Just bought 2 of those Extrons from ebay. I'll stick up some photos when I get them !0 -
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So how does the Extron RGB output? Is it VGA?
Come to think of it, I dont really think there's any way of me inputting that video signal into my cab. It's a standard arcade monitor with no VGA in (only the RGB cable socket things on the back which connects to the JAMMA harness)
Yes the output is a BNC to VGA cable - so the cab monitor needs VGA input.
Well, unless there's BNC to something else type cable. 0 -
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Warning for retr0: There's some more scanline pics below so make sure you're sitting down in case there's a sudden loss of blood to the head.
Not interesting enough to post in the new GET thread but this little chap arrived this morning. It's a new LCD screen for the Beo4 remote. I use it with the B&O MX4000 I got off Pyongyang a while back - the TV I use with my MVS setup (that's the tenuous link to gaming :pac:). The original LCD was damaged so decided to get a replacement, makes zero difference to the gaming experience ofc but wanted to tidy up the B&O setup.
Old LCD (supposed to be displaying TV but half of it missing):
Open up the remote, remove two screws and a bit of fiddling about before popping in the new screen and putting it all back together:
Perfect:
The TV itself gives a gorgeous picture but it's shifted to the left a bit. Unfortunately you can't get into the Service Menu with the remote on this model but there's a relatively easy mod to do to make it accessible, no soldering thankfully. Just waiting on the parts to arrive to sort that issue out.
You can see in the second pic I'm missing about half an inch of image. Doesn't really detract from the gaming but want to get it perfect all the same.
Blazing Star:
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So the JST 2-pin wiring arrived in the post this morning meaning I could get cracking on the service menu mod for the B&O MX4000. As mentioned in the post above, the picture needed to be shifted to the right by maybe half an inch.
The mod itself involved unscrewing the casing on the back of the tv and lifting it up just enough to get access to the service menu pins (too afraid to remove the casing completely in case I necked the TV). After much fiddling about with pliers I managed to connect up the wire, bugger all space to work with.
Luckily enough there was slight spacing between the casing and the SCART socket panel that meant I could just feed the wire out there, used a bit of electrical tape to keep it from falling about the place. I made up a little loom with a push button on the end - I can plug this in and out when needed and a quick press of the button and up comes the service menu. Works a treat.
Same pic as yesterday showing the picture cut off:
After altering some of the horizontal settings I get back the missing section (pic is a bit blurry), a noticeable difference:
Big thanks to Faginrs500 for showing how to do the mod in the first place, he went a different route and mounted the button on the top back of the casing, very neat.
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