Re: How would you hook a Neo Geo MVS board up to a NTSC Television?


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Posted by Joshua on 4, 2001 at 10:49 PM:

In Reply to: How would you hook a Neo Geo MVS board up to a NTSC Television? posted by Robbie on 4, 2001 at 8:36 PM:

I believe all Neo Geo units are Jamma compatible - so first you'd need to hook the thing up to a jamma harness and your arcade controls - because the Neo Geo needs 4 buttons per player, the extra button (Jamma interface supports 3 buttons per player) my need to be wired directly to the board. Then the RGB video out on the Jamma harness/MVS board would need to go through an adapter to display on your NTSC TV.

There's a few places you can get them. I've heard good things about JROK's adapter (http://www.jrok.com) but I don't know if he still makes them.

Mas Systems (http://www.massystems.com) Makes a whole joystick/video converter in one package that will allow you to play Jamma boards on your TV, and they may sell just the video converter on it's own. I've heard nothing but good things about Mas from some people and nothing but bad things about them from others.

There are also RGB/NTSC converters that pop up on eBay frequently. (Those large projection-screen Dynamo arcade pedestal set-ups that a lot of games use lately use one of these to work)

The XRGB-2 unit will also convert your video signals I believe too, but I'm not sure about it. It seems to be able to handle just about any input/output combination. There's a review of that device at www.gamesx.com, and you can buy the thing at http://www.ncsx.com (who are a great source for all things import gaming...)

I'm sure someone here can tell you more.

: How would you hook a Neo Geo MVS board up to a NTSC Television? I would like to know. It would really help! Would it mean making a special adapter or not? Please help me! Thanks




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