I have been on the fence about this for a while now. I have an arcade cabinet with a cga monitor and I've been really wanting to get a vga monitor put inside instead for a naomi setup. In all the states near me I've only managed to find vga/ trisync monitors that were 27 inches. I visited a guy with a surplus of monitors and he convinced me to pick up one of his 27 inch monitors and told me i might be able to replace the bracket inside my cab and it would fit. after driving the thing home and looking at it I'm a bit skeptical. From what I've measured the interior width of my cab and its a little less than 24 3/4" the monitor is 24 1/4" horizontally. has anyone else retro fitted a larger monitor inside a cab that had a smaller one? is this doable or should I cut my losses?
retrofitting from 25" to 27"
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trashedcabs
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This guy did it with his War Final Assault:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjBWdvgK3t0
You can always just run the Naomi in 15khz. Looks a little less pretty, but works fine.
Also, who's your guy with a surplus of monitors? Lol
You can always just run the Naomi in 15khz. Looks a little less pretty, but works fine.
Also, who's your guy with a surplus of monitors? Lol
I guess I'll give it a go. what's the best kind of mounting bracket for a 27 inch? the one i have inside my cab right now is a wood square I can pull out and rotate. I was originally thinking I was going to just have 2 slabs of wood on the top and bottom. Should I go for this 4 corner square method instead that's in the video? would this allow me to rotate the screen if I wanted to?
The guy who gave me the monitor was some guy from facebook marketplace. He said he did snow blowing for a guy that distributed Incredible Technology games. He got paid in monitors and golden tee/ bowling cabinets. He didn't know much about them though. I went there thinking he had a few 25 inch vga monitors cause he said he had some. But when I got there 97% were 27" and the last 3% were cga also most of them weren't tested and there were a lot of defective ones that needed work done. He was very friendly though.
The guy who gave me the monitor was some guy from facebook marketplace. He said he did snow blowing for a guy that distributed Incredible Technology games. He got paid in monitors and golden tee/ bowling cabinets. He didn't know much about them though. I went there thinking he had a few 25 inch vga monitors cause he said he had some. But when I got there 97% were 27" and the last 3% were cga also most of them weren't tested and there were a lot of defective ones that needed work done. He was very friendly though.
thegreathopper
Professional
I managed to fit a Hantarex 21 inch monitor in a UK wooden Neo Geo cab, stock monitor was 19inch… I think. But I defiantly went up a size and all good.
Good luck, it’s going to be a tight fit for sure, those big monitors are heavy.
Good luck, it’s going to be a tight fit for sure, those big monitors are heavy.