Neo-Geo MVS: Conversion Ideas

[Flack]

I've been toying with the idea of gutting my MVS cabinet and turning it into some sort of supergun type system. Maybe a supergun isn't the right terminology ... more of a "house based" Neo Geo MVS system.

If you guys had an extra MVS setup, what would you do with it? I'm kind of thinking of mounting the MVS board in a large CPU case with the cart ports open on the side. I'm not really sure what it would take to convert the video signals from "whatever goes to an arcade montor" to "composite/vga/something else". Or hell, maybe I'll stick the monitor in a case somehow too and have a completely portable MVS ...

What would you guys do with this hardware?

(* I have two Neo-Geo cabinets, a dual slot with a small monitor and a single slot with a big monitor. I plan on combining the two, and making a dual slot with a big monitor, and playing with the left over parts because the other cabinet isn't in great shape.)

[AB Positive]

lookup a "J-Rok convertor" it will solve your conversion from raster to anything you want, S-Video, RGB, Composite... whatever.


Ask Clubninja for specs, I think he put a 2-slot into an old horizontal comp case and has it hooked up to a commodore RGB monitor, a setup I severly envy.


-AG

[ClubNinja]

http://www.gis.net/~bertulli/mvs.htm

[chadtower]

http://www.gis.net/~bertulli/mvs.htm

Holy CRAP I've got to come over and see that. I'm in Framingham every day now...

[Flack]

Wow ClubNinja that's exactly what I had in mind. Well, not exactly but pretty close. Of course right before I decided to start this project I threw out an old 486 that was in a HUGE tower that would have been perfect ...

Oh, and Adam, U-Rok for the J-Rok information! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Is there any difference between a PC power supply and an arcade one? If not, I'll just pick up a new tower and use the power supply from it, and then slap another JAMMA game into my old NEO cab.

Thanks again everybody!

[ClubNinja]

On the power supply, any old PC supply will do as long as it has +5 and +12 volt lines (also -5 if you're doing more than just MVS with it.) I recommend the older AT ones as they have push button on and off power, as opposed to the new ones that do their own funky powering on and off.