I’ve seen arcades with Cabinets that have TV’s mounted on the top so passersby can view the match without taking up space. How would you do the setup like this or is this a specific type of cabinet?
In order to help you guys know what im talkin about, at about 45 secs [media=youtube]tAMvmS1w8II[/media]
is what im referring to. When the camera moves up and theres a second monitor showing the match.
cord splitter? because it works with voltages?
You’d need either an RGB monitor, or an RGB->NTSC/PAL converter. I’d recommend the JROK converter board, it’s only 85 bucks and has a high compatability rate.
btw, that looks like an RGB monitor in that video, so…
I fashioned a rudimentary device, using a jamma extender, splitting the RGBS lines and routing them to an RGB->NTSC/PAL adapter, for capturing purposes. The adapter offers s-video or composite output (s-video is far superior), and JROK’s are the best option currently, as Taiki suggested. As long as you’re not concerned with sound on the additional monitor, what Taiki suggests and what I have done would offer you a solution for ~$200-$250 (depending on how big you want the additional monitor). The video can be split without any loss of quality.
That’s the arcade cab at SVGL.
It’s 2 VGA monitors so any VGA splitter could achive that.
VGA splitting will only work with a game system that has VGA output, such as the NAOMI that is running CVS2 in that video. However, if you are running standard JAMMA, converting RGBS to VGA in order to split it will be more headache than it’s worth (trust me, i’ve done the exhausting and fruitless research). You would also need to be running 31 khz out of the NAOMI (or other game system that would have to support VGA output)…and two monitors supporting VGA input, of the size that would be acceptable for this type of setup, would be dramatically more expensive than an arcade monitor/TV setup.
I’m not saying it’s not possible or doable, but unless you’re on an unlimited budget, cost should be considered.