Glad talking to you made the list!Sadly I was running around doing a bunch of stuff
I didn't design the HDMI boards. It was Markus/marqs, who also designed the Open Source Scan Converter. I simply teamed up with him to share information and do testing. I suppose you could thank me for asking him to work on itThank you for creating these boards.
The big caveat is that a low latency LCD must be used. And by "low" I mean a few milliseconds. Testing must be done to validate that, not just reading numbers off a manucturer's tech specs. This has always been the case for scan converters, but I just want to throw out the reminder that this won't magically make a laggy LCD any faster than it already is. Also many LCDs have modes which cause more or less latency, so that must be checked, as well.It seems as though even for the die hard crt players lag is out of the equation.
Don't hold your breath. That's a bigger undertaking than any project we've seen on this forum.The next step would be to build an FPGA A-Board that would have all the necessary connections.
InterestedIf including my VGA kit is still of interest, that'd get me off my ass to make a cost-cutting redesign of my board, which would also open up more Neo-Geo kits (people have shown interest but I've been too anxious and busy to get around to doing it).
For what it's worth, my CPS2 VGA board offers these outputs:
* VGA 480p RGB
* Component 480p YPbPr
* SCART / classic 240p RGB
* Component 240p YPbPr
so it'd satisfy people wanting to use SCART, or a VGA port to connect to a PVM, etc.
@undamned if you're still interested in including that or making it an option, hit me up - I'd be happy to do something with it instead of letting the work that went into the project rot away.
The idea of a consolized CPS2 system I could take anywhere & connect to anything (HDMI, composite, component, RGB) is the dream of Tournament Organizers of these old games like myself. I imagine a lot of us in the Fighting Game Community would die for these (the original UD-CPS2s are heavily lusted upon for those of us who didn't manage to get em).If including my VGA kit is still of interest, that'd get me off my ass to make a cost-cutting redesign of my board, which would also open up more Neo-Geo kits (people have shown interest but I've been too anxious and busy to get around to doing it).
For what it's worth, my CPS2 VGA board offers these outputs:
* VGA 480p RGB
* Component 480p YPbPr
* SCART / classic 240p RGB
* Component 240p YPbPr
so it'd satisfy people wanting to use SCART, or a VGA port to connect to a PVM, etc.
@undamned if you're still interested in including that or making it an option, hit me up - I'd be happy to do something with it instead of letting the work that went into the project rot away.
Soldering a lot of fly wires sucks and isn't great for a finished thing, which made installing my kit a shitty procedure. The way Marq's board mounts is excellent, so if I put together another one I'd want it to work in a similar way.
THIS is also very interesting if will be possible to be added!If including my VGA kit is still of interest, that'd get me off my ass to make a cost-cutting redesign of my board, which would also open up more Neo-Geo kits (people have shown interest but I've been too anxious and busy to get around to doing it).
For what it's worth, my CPS2 VGA board offers these outputs:
* VGA 480p RGB
* Component 480p YPbPr
* SCART / classic 240p RGB
* Component 240p YPbPr
so it'd satisfy people wanting to use SCART, or a VGA port to connect to a PVM, etc.
@undamned if you're still interested in including that or making it an option, hit me up - I'd be happy to do something with it instead of letting the work that went into the project rot away.
Soldering a lot of fly wires sucks and isn't great for a finished thing, which made installing my kit a shitty procedure. The way Marq's board mounts is excellent, so if I put together another one I'd want it to work in a similar way.
With that, I would be interested in 1x kit when availableI'm not ready to officially take pre-orders, but your post will serve as some sort of place holder in line.