Welp, I bought a cabinet
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Re: Welp, I bought a cabinet
I need to get a PS2 -> USB adapter for my USKOC. Or I could actually play BMUS first.
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Re: Welp, I bought a cabinet
Have you played the Japanese console games? I'd start with those first since you won't have to go through the hassle of setting up a computer to run BEET and you won't have to dick around with timings and whatnot to fix the lag you will absolutely 100% have. The console games just plain work and if you have a CRT TV the timing will be great.
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Re: Welp, I bought a cabinet
FWIW, a TV having a CRT by no means guarantees a lag-free experience. Late in the CRT era, a lot of 1080i CRT sets were made that were pure "price point" garbage. They used laggy digital scalers to upscale everything since they lacked multi-sync deflection circuitry. You might remember Putt Putt in Ft. Wayne had such a TV on their IIDX machine for a little while before it was sold.
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Re: Welp, I bought a cabinet
I can confirm this as true as I went out of my way to get a low latency CRT HDTV in 2005. (It still works beautifully, but I may have to retire it soon.)MonMotha wrote:FWIW, a TV having a CRT by no means guarantees a lag-free experience. Late in the CRT era, a lot of 1080i CRT sets were made that were pure "price point" garbage. They used laggy digital scalers to upscale everything since they lacked multi-sync deflection circuitry. You might remember Putt Putt in Ft. Wayne had such a TV on their IIDX machine for a little while before it was sold.
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Guys, just play console IIDX on a shitty $100 CRT. Hell I'd play bootleg BEET on a CRT if I knew how. I swear to goodness the TV I play on now has weird drifting lag where it will get slightly too fast or lightly behind but I could just be bad at the game now.
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Re: Welp, I bought a cabinet
Find yourself a Sony GDM-FW900 or similar. 24" 16:9 Trinitron PC monitor. They're extremely capable and zero lag with a full analog video path.
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MonMotha do you have a recommendation for a monitor to use for bootleg BEET? You know, like a non-CRT flat screen TV.
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If you're looking for a low-/zero-lag, inexpensive, LCD PC monitor or TV, no. I don't know of any off-hand.
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I would mention that I will be retiring my HDTV this year, but I should warn you that it's 150 lbs so it's one of those situations where I doubt anybody would want it due to the size.
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I offered you my 230 lb. one. It is inexplicably still sitting in my basement.Amp Divorax wrote:I would mention that I will be retiring my HDTV this year, but I should warn you that it's 150 lbs so it's one of those situations where I doubt anybody would want it due to the size.
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My HDTV does have an HDMI output so it will accept that output. Do be warned though that you will have to compensate for the overscan appropriately.Merk wrote:Can I hook up a laptop to either of these and play BEET on them?
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Re: Welp, I bought a cabinet
I looks like one of the little L-brackets inside my 1P right arrow is sticking like a mofo and I'm not sure how to fix it. I took the sensor out so that I could make my cabinet playable but now I am short a sensor and to make matters worse it's the left-most sensor so it gets used the most.
Isn't there like a little index card trick I can do to get it to stop sticking?
Isn't there like a little index card trick I can do to get it to stop sticking?
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