it's HEEEEERE

My MAME monitor! :'D

i have yet to plug it in for fear of electrocution or spontaneous combustion or i don't know
(also I don't have the right cables or BNC adapters yet anyway)

but i'M REALLY EXCITED let's celebrate khv
(and then grieve when it turns out not to work)

 

WHAT A NERD
says the person waiting for her star wars action figure to come in the mail

No but for real I know how long you've been looking for one of these so very exciting~

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Jelly. I bet Genesis games look so good on that, even though that's not its purpose. NO, its purpose is far greater.

 

dis for playin' dem fancy schmancy retro vidyo gams?

 

I swear i looked at this picture for a moment and thought "is that my old tv that stopped working back in 2010" i was mid way through ff 5 ps1 version and hadn't saved.. i had grinded so much as well and i tried to switch ny tv with my sisters but ended up taking out the ps1 plug like an idiot

 

I like the buttons : D they remind me of my childhood.

 

Can I come over and play your mame cab? :X

 

Thank you guys!~

@Accelerator -- I mean you may have had a similar television? Trinitrons were both made for professional settings and for the consumer market, and they were pretty popular! Also d...do you mean you ripped out the entire AV plug from the TV!?

Well I do not have a Genesis on hand unfortunately, but I'm going to be hooking up my consoles to it until I have the rest of the cabinet ready~

mame party at my house, errybody get over here

I tested it today! It works, but it has a few quirks lol. I was expecting that tbh; these monitors see a lot of use in their normal environments and it was probably knocked around some during shipping besides.

Spoiler: warning incoming nerdy info dump

There are three inputs (Line A/B and RGB) and Line B is totally borked, it works for a few minutes and then devolves into unbearable flickering. I didn't actually try an input on it, but I doubt it would look good. I don't care so much about Line B so long as RGB is okay, and it doesn't have that problem (at least with the menu, I don't have the right cables to hook it up yet).

I hooked up my PS2 through composite today (protip: megaman x collection outputs at 240p natively!) and I was actually surprised at the result. Dot crawl is a lot more prominent, and it's a little less sharp than my regular CRT. The whites are also on the warm side -- I suspect the blue is a tad weak. The colors are richer though and the scanlines are INCREDIBLE. The settings were all mucked up when I got it so I can't help but conclude this monitor has Seen Some ****; I reset it back to factory and it's much better other than the problems I mentioned (it makes a concerning noise when it first powers on though .___. ).

As it turns out, there are still some technicians in my area who claim to repair CRTs, so I might see how much it would cost to get it recalibrated by someone.

Spoiler: Composite comparisons

My Toshiba CRT



Trinitron PVM~





The difference on that purple is really interesting to me; I think that's an effect of the weak blue. That's also an... Interesting black and white line at the top of the helmet there the Trinitron is producing, lol.

And just for shits n' giggles, here is my 720p Samsung LCD (lmao):



just a little horrifying

I'm interested to see the difference with RGB; composite has a lot of color bleeding going on. The warmth of the picture is a little worrying because I'm not sure what can be done to fix it. I think the picture could do with being a little crisper also, but I suspect that's just how a low quality signal looks through a Trinitron grille.
There's probably a service menu with options to fine-tune all of these things. I'll have to look into it.

 

I meant while trying to move the ps2 out of the way without taking the power adapter out of the back of the PS2 but I accidentally ended up doing that while trying to move my sisters TV into my room anyways :C

 

OH hah when you mentioned them together I thought you meant that moving your PS2 broke the TV, but you meant that you unplugged it accidentally and the TV broke another time, lol.

That sucks though. I used to leave my PS2 on all the time before I had a memory card when I was younger (poor thing lol). I finally got one for Kingdom Hearts actually and then for whatever reason I was convinced I had to shut the console off to plug it in and lost all my progress. I was in Agrabah... :c

 

My first time going through Agrabah in KH1 was frustrating for some reason..so that sorta sucks D:

 

I think it's really easy to get like... Lost in Agrabah. At least for me, lol. As I recall it was hard to find your way around because there were lots of hidden doorways you had to get to through platforming, and lots of doors that looked the same?

It's been yeaaaars tho.

 

You guys aren't alone.

 

lexi you and this TV appeared briefly in my dream last night

 

I could just look this up, but what's special about this TV?

 

IT'S REALLY WEIRD YOU SAY THAT because you were in my dream last night too??
I dreamed about going back to school and you were at my university for some reason

It's a professional grade CRT monitor, so the picture is better than a normal set and it works a little differently. I would peg it somewhere between an arcade monitor and a CRT television? I paid the exorbitant fee of about fifty bucks for it, because no one wants CRTs anymore

The advantage for arcade games is that it's a 15khz monitor that takes RGB, which is otherwise unavailable on North American televisions. RGB is what arcade games use and hypothetically produces the best picture for 240p content. Europeans have it much easier with RGB SCART

tl;dr it's better than an arcade monitor imo at a fraction of the price, and not half as dangerous since it's encased, lol.

 

SO MANY SCART ADAPTERS GOTTA BUY 'EM ALL

 

omg because you were just like randomly there in mine too WE'RE IN EACH OTHERS DREAMMMMS

 

The good old days when TVs looked like they were knitted just for you[DOUBLEPOST=1405108772][/DOUBLEPOST]The good old days when TVs looked like they were knitted just for you

 

You two need spend less time with one another.

Shame that old games look like crap on modern TVs.