I Almost Gave Up On This Project

[@BushyStallion]

Good video dude, you really put a lot of work in your projects, great job 👊🏼

[@cleetusvandame]

Thank you for the kind words Chris. It was a pleasure to help. Anything else you need, please let me know. I'm glad you stuck with it. This is the correct way to do an arcade Mame installation.

[@Zach_____]

Good video, really captured the trial and error of these kind of projects. Glad to see its on the right track now

[@jax597]

Great job man!! I was sooo lost with all that terminology!! You deff got pride in what ya do!

[@PAXBISONICA]

Congratulations on finishing up. The screen looks Great! Take a breath brother. 👍👊

[@atranfanatic]

Right on man way to go! Glad you finally got it figured out! And I'll bet reading on here you can get the A1up Killer Instinct running on that CRT. Don't give up. This is going to be helpful when I get my OG RoadBlasters arcade cabinet finished and set up. As I'm going to run a PC with a multi-switcher so I can play the other driving/shooting arcade games.

[@AnthonyCotto]

You need a way to crunch down the 1280x1024 arcade1up resolution down to 640x480. Also, that hdmi to vga converter may not be working, depending on the output capabilities of the device. The silver bullet to do this would be a retrotink5x, which can take 1080p hdmi input down to 240p analog output, but there may be more affordable options. Depends on how you want to do it. Glad to hear you're getting some success!

[@MrDeemann8]

Glad you made this video. I bought a empty Midway cab last year and plan on doing the same thing. Hope to get into it more this year but have some other projects as well. ( Full Size. ) I will keep you posted on the project. Congrats on your build.

[@Lastjustice]

Technology, and the infinite number of things that can and will go wrong.

[@threwanade]

Awesome! CRT for arcades is the way to go I’m def going this route in the future. Look forward to your complete build!

[@IDKsomeguy9]

Nice!! There’s definitely a learning curve getting CRTEmudriver to work…..but definitely worth it. Looking forward to seeing the finished product and which front end you choose to go with.

[@airofmystery14]

Good to hear that it went your way Chris and the fact that you had major assist along the way. Can't wait to see the final product dude!

[@Brad-D]

GOOD WORK!! I tried this once but gave up way earlier in the process LOL

[@GlaciusXL]

BRUTAL!!! Man, I hate when stuff goes like this. It's always the "simple" stuff. You're not alone! So glad it's working now though!

[@michaelloehman7939]

Great job man! Making progress! MK looks great on that screen! Cant wait to see the finish line! 👍

[@briankennedy1]

What a damn battle!! Glad you got it up and running. Reminds me of all my various solar power BS.

[@DarkWizardPrince]

I am glad you figured out the solution. Crt is what I prefer too. I use a sony trinitron. I look forward to seeing the finished product!

[@R3LAPS3productions]

I guess this video answers a few questions i had just bouncing around in my head. And I guess it proves I'm not crazy after all. So my question was would it be possible to put a Arcade1Up pcb into the real arcade and play on the crt monitor. I always thought it would be kinda cool to play the mortal kombat online multiplayer games on actual arcade machine. I guess this video kinda proves that it is possible but in order to do so it's just going to take alot of converters and a few other boards. Maybe 1 day ill buy the actual MK cabinet and give it a try although I don't really have the space for that size of a cabinet where i live. Cant wait to see the next video.

[@Y0Y0Y2K]

Glad you got it to work! The crt's picture looks fantastic!

[@RostoGamesLester]

NOICE!🎉🎉

[@TheManCaveYTChannel]

What resolution does the a1up KI output? Is the arcade monitor a standard crt? Meaning 480i max. If so, that’s more than likely why you’re not getting an image.

[@tigheklory]

When you are trying to diagnose a problem it's best not to keep swapping things out. You should have used that LCD with the VGA output see if the adapter board from the Arcade 1UP. I'm not sure why you are using an Arcade 1UP board in a Killer Instinct cabinet..

[@wyldelf2685]

KAG the reviver of Arcade Cabinets ,😸👍👍

[@IDKsomeguy9]

Also would like to see you compare KI on groovymame vs the pcb.

[@rgbcrafts]

Question *since I'm away for too long* is that a RGB CRT monitor? That kind of CRT only accepts 15kHz signal. Any different frequency it won't work. Also, it will get maximum 480p coming from a computer. I'm just guessing, since I'm not aware of your new project. If it's going to be a MAME project, set a pc using ATI computer and CRT Emudriver 2.0 for sure. Frontend wise, I'm editing CoinOps to work properly to a 4:3 monitor. If it happens to serve for your project, just let me know.

[@rgbcrafts]

As a last resource, I'd add you try RGBUNTU or Batocera 15kHz system. Both are prebuild and works at 15khz by default. GroovyArcade would be a third option, since it is a OS plus GroovyMAME on a single image.

[@rgbcrafts]

Anyway, YT seems to ignore what I'm typing somehow. GroovyMAME is the way to go, if it would not work, GroovyArcade would be the best option to make it work since the beginning, without installing CRT EmulDrive 2.0 and any other protocol. About the frontend, as I was saying before, I'm editing it for my MVS restoration cabinet and now updating for a promising multigames, with more games and all working properly on 4:3 (CoinOps only has assets for 16:9). If you can confirm the final titles list you're about to have in this machine, I can edit the assets and send you a build for testing it.

[@MightySquirrel]

@@rgbcrafts I just googled GroovyArcade, and this is amazing. Honestly, I never bothered about going down the route of using a CRT, with the kinds of headaches that CRT Emudriver and GroovyMame can cause. This is amazing, thank you for the suggestion!

[@KidApoc]

I initially thought this was going to be an Arcade1up to arcade monitor setup. I’m wondering if you need a multisync arcade monitor for this to work successfully?

[@KillerArcadeGames]

The monitor I have is a tri sync. I think the biggest road block for the 1Up hardware is the Geekworm LVDS to HDMI board. I was told I need the 2.0 version for KI. I’d still probably need a signal converter board too. I’d be more willing to go deeper into it if it wasn’t a royal pain already haha.

[@KidApoc]

@@KillerArcadeGames that’s a bummer. This would be a dream to do. I hope someone could come up with something,to alleviate this issue.

[@gerarsot5600]

I have an arcade just like that: emudrivers, and for me, is the best option. Now you'll should try Atrack mode, and Fightcade instead of 1up online.

[@MightySquirrel]

Do you mind documenting the steps you took to get it running? There seems to be a lot of conflicting info out there, among different sites.

[@KillerArcadeGames]

I'll probably be doing a similar set up again for a friends cabinet. I'll try and remember to record that one. The biggest issue I ran into was the CRT Emu Driver failing to install. My PC would blue screen of death every time. It turns out Windows 10 was installing a GPU driver before I could install the CRT Emu driver. So I had to go in and uninstall the device (GPU) and then install the Emu driver and it worked.

[@MightySquirrel]

Next time, try DDU to do the uninstall. It does a super clean uninstall for any brand of graphics card.

[@MightySquirrel]

Download the drivers, run DDU, keep the computer offline, then install the drivers. See if that helps.

[@deadmousyplutaprestige8771]

CLICKBAIT!! I thought you were dead. I was going to contact the wife with my condolences and make an offer on some arcade pieces. 😁

[@KyleExplosion]

Was your question answered on Are You Garbage last week? Are you garbage if your umber shows up as potential spam?

[@KillerArcadeGames]

Hahah yes that was me

[@KyleExplosion]

@KillerArcadeGames Dude. Thats awesome. I just saw the bozos live, back in November.

[@KillerArcadeGames]

They were recommended to me by a friend a few years back. I listen religiously now. They’re great! I saw them in Austin recently. I have a picture with them but can’t share it here lol

[@KyleExplosion]

@KillerArcadeGames they have a episode with TNT Amusement on their Patreon.

[@KillerArcadeGames]

Yeah I saw that one! It popped up right as I subscribed to the Patreon. It they do some kind of meet up at TNT arcade I might fly out for it.

[@ph111hud0]

It is not working properly, switchres is not working !! it wont be changing to the correct resolution. Switchres shows you the change in resolution before the game starts. what your seeing is the standard windows running mame without the switchres.