Posted by Elvis_P on 17, 2000 at 7:41 PM:
In Reply to: Failed VGA to arcade monitor cable attempt posted by Tom A. on 17, 2000 at 7:33 PM:
Well i'm not that experienced with a soldering iron but everything went fine when soldering my VGA to scart cable. Maybe you had the pin numbers wrong or something. Another thing you could try is to buy a VGA to BNC cable. One side has a VGA connector other side has 5 seperate connectors, Red Green Blue and Hsync and Vsync (well i think that's what the cable does i'm guessing it's the same as what i made)
Anyway good luck
: The bad news is that I spent many, many hours hacking a standard molded VGA cable. I took my time, removed the covers, all the epoxy over the wires (this was a terrible chore) and figuring out which pins go with which wires. I than soldered what I thought were the correct wires (looked at Brian's PC2JAMMA website for pinouts) to the fingerboard I just got from "the real Bob Roberts). I installed DOS MAME, ArcadeOS, got it working with the PC monitor first and than configured it for incabinet, fired the PC up, waited for the 3 beeps, turned the cabinet on and nada. I was hoping to at least get a rolling picture or something. Not a thing. I can't figure out what I did wrong.
: I am now in the process of trying to hack a printer cable to see if I can do that better. I had to take a break as my eyes and mind are going buggy trying to strip these tincey wincey wires and put them in the connector.
: If it does work, the signal quality surely can't be that good as some of the wires will be exposed. That's when I was thinking, doesn't someone make an adapter that can be plugged into a standard VGA cable that just terminates with tinned wire leads? This would make the job so, so much easier.
: Any suggestions for acquiring such an adapter or tricks to making a good quality VGA to arcade monitor cable would be appreciated.
: -Tom A.