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Replacing Medium Res Chassis with Multi-Res?

GhaleonUnlimited

GhaleonUnlimited

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I'm trying to find uses for my Blitz cab beside maybe a System 24 multi. I've been searching and it seems there's no way to convert 15 khz to 24 khz -- frustrating since I own many scalers, from the XRGB2 to Tink5x.

Can you take the medium-res chassis from a stock Blitz and replace it with a 15 khz + 24 khz chassis? I've read later Blitzes had monitors where the chassis had a switch to go between 15 & 24 khz, but I don't know if that would be compatible what's in a stock Blitz or how that stuff even works. (I can do wiring/soldering but I'm lucky to have a guy who works on monitors).

How do you even figure this stuff out lol? Anyway thanks for any info!

I read someone on KLOV talking about a "y-plus" adapter that "doesn't work very well" for something like this but I can't find further info.

Or if you know ANY way to get 15 khz content on a 24 khz monitor I'd love to know!
 
First is to determine what monitor you actually have in there. A lot of Medium Res Montors are actually dual-res, and require either a switch or some connectors changed over to change between resolutions.

As for other medium Res games
A lot of other late 90s Midway/Atari Stuff supports Med res such as
Narc
War Gods
Mace: The Dark Age
NBA Showtime/Sports Station
Gauntlet Legends
Gauntlet Dark Legacy

Assuming your bitz cab uses the 24-way joysticks rather than normal 8-ways the Gauntlet games and Sports station would drop in and support both the med res monitor and those joysticks.

There's also Konami M2 hardware and Sega Model 1, 2 and 3 hardware that all support Medium Res
and of course also System 24 as you mentioned.
 
Ah yeah thanks for the info! I didn't know I could throw model 2 in there, be nice for lightguns.

Never even heard of the Konami M2, had to look that up, interesting!

I looked at the chassis but on a Blitz it's mounted in a way it's really hard to see much. I didn't see any obvious dip switches or anything, from what I can see. Where would the switches usually be? Or is it like you have to change some connections?
 
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