Posted by Agent Davis on 2, 2000 at 1:37 AM:
In Reply to: Agent Davis, I would send this for you by e-mail, but since there isn't any... posted by Bugfinder on 1, 2000 at 10:49 PM:
First off, is your arcade monitor connected to a jamma harness? This is the thing that you plug actual arcade boards (pcb's) into. If not, then buy a harness and wire it up to the monitor. This should be farely simple. You don't have to do this but it is better.
WITH A JAMMA HARNESS:
-Buy a jamma fingerboard. Most arcade dealers will have these including some of the ones linked to on this site.
-Buy a 15-pin VGA extension cable.
-Now find which colored wires represent which pins on the vga cable. Using a multimeter is the easiest way to do this. You can also make your own cable by buying the crimp or solder style connector and connecting the wires you need to the pins.
-The pins/wires you are concerned with are:
1 (red),
2 (green),
3 (blue),
5 (ground),
6 (red ground),
7 (green ground),
8 (blue ground),
10 (sync ground),
13 (horizontal sync),
14 (vertical sync).
-You only need to make 5 solders to the fingerboard.
Solder:
1 to Video Red
2 to Video Green
3 to Video Blue
All the Grounds to Video Ground (just twist em together.
The two Syncs to Video Sync
Plug it in and go.
WITHOUT A FINGERBOARD:
You'll just have to wire the vga cable the same way but straight to the monitor itself instead of through a fingerboard.