So, this is some real monitor newbie-shit so bear with me:
I bought a cheap House of the Dead 3 upright - it's a little bit worn, but everything works, the Chihiro looks to be in excellent condition, and the shotguns are present and correct. However, the original Nanao 29" was ripped out many, many years ago and replaced with a 24" LCD by, I assume, the same US pizza-place that all the tokens I found when cleaning the cabinet came from.
Now, this cabinet is mostly for my kids and wife (she's a big HotD-fan), so the LCD isn't a huge problem (it works fine), but I DO have an old 28" Grundig CRT television I could get from storage... as luck (?) would have it, it would actually fit the cabinet absolutely perfectly, and the gun-sensor frame would cover the TV-ness of the monitor.
Now, it would seem to my absolute ignorant-about-monitors-self that all I'd have to do was get a VGA to Scart converter (or maybe even find my old XBOX-Scart connector...?) and hook up the TV... But at the same time, I know that I know next to nothing about the Chihiro, and that nothing is ever easy when it comes to old arcade-games.
I'm loathe to shell out for a new old Nanao, so if it's not possible to use the TV I'll just stick with the LCD (again, it plays just fine), but it would just be nice to know if this easy hack is doable.
Much obliged for any advice!
I bought a cheap House of the Dead 3 upright - it's a little bit worn, but everything works, the Chihiro looks to be in excellent condition, and the shotguns are present and correct. However, the original Nanao 29" was ripped out many, many years ago and replaced with a 24" LCD by, I assume, the same US pizza-place that all the tokens I found when cleaning the cabinet came from.
Now, this cabinet is mostly for my kids and wife (she's a big HotD-fan), so the LCD isn't a huge problem (it works fine), but I DO have an old 28" Grundig CRT television I could get from storage... as luck (?) would have it, it would actually fit the cabinet absolutely perfectly, and the gun-sensor frame would cover the TV-ness of the monitor.
Now, it would seem to my absolute ignorant-about-monitors-self that all I'd have to do was get a VGA to Scart converter (or maybe even find my old XBOX-Scart connector...?) and hook up the TV... But at the same time, I know that I know next to nothing about the Chihiro, and that nothing is ever easy when it comes to old arcade-games.
I'm loathe to shell out for a new old Nanao, so if it's not possible to use the TV I'll just stick with the LCD (again, it plays just fine), but it would just be nice to know if this easy hack is doable.
Much obliged for any advice!
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