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You do have to be pretty central on Time Crisis 2, but otherwise that was ok. After I did this video, I found Ninja Assault more problematic on the edges - I think I had to jack the brightness up a lot, but I can't remember now - I must look again.

Thanks. Yeah just a normal compressor, even a small unit seemed alright for just one cabinet, although bloody noisy when it sporadically had to repressure.

@beaumotplage That's good I'm trying to get mine going so will have to buy one, do you have anymore videos of your daytona special running I would be very interested to see them? I'm also looking at trying to get the RPTV's going but missing glass and fresnel at the moment :(

​@@pheonixman22 you're actually the second person who's said exactly that to me today regarding restoring RP monitors and Daytona special DLX! Heart of Gaming were throwing some Fresnel/Lenticulars out the other week on the UKVAC facebook - they might still have them. There's usually someone trashing a 50" arcade monitor somehere that'll have them spare :-/.

@@pheonixman22 Oh and sorry, it's not my machine - it was a local guy who had it and since sold it on to someone else (who I know but lives half the country away)

@beaumotplage ahh I see probably me speaking to the same person on ukvac about it :)

What are you using to connect to the projector?

@@JaGomez0285 It takes most inputs via the VGA connector, where the composite sync out of the arcade boards can go to the H-sync wire. It's a supergun type setup I use (homemade), but you'd probably get away with resistors (470R on RGB) for a test (not as nice to the arcade boards as an opamp circuit).

My pleasure. I'm just updating the description now to mention that there's also the UM330X and UM361X, which are almost the same projector, but up to 30% brighter (3300 and 3600 lumens vs 2800), which is really what you want in an arcade machine.

Oh, wow, superb. I'd love to see pictures of that one day!

@@beaumotplage ofc, I'll sub to your channel, and when I have time, I'll send you a link to the video!

Hi, the Sony is a three-CRT projector, like mine. The Sony is also of a much higher specification - it will operate up to 1080i, it has a vast array of inputs. My concern though is that it might have image processing, such as upscaling, that will remove the nice scanlines and the compatibility with lightguns. I looked at the manual and I think this is probably true, but I can't see if it is de-selectable to get a 'raw' image. If that doesn't matter, it's probably a very nice, huge 4:3 TV.

@@beaumotplage Thanks for your answer, actually I want a TV of this type just for that, light gun games with scanlines for retro games... What do you think about this one: Toshiba 61"" model 61A60A. Thanks in advance

Hope could you help me with this, or what are the conditions that we need to mind when try to buy a RPTV for retro gaming? Thanks in advance

@@israelgonzalezabrego3551 Hi, I think that 61" Toshiba might also have lots of upscaling hardware. It has component input, suggesting 480P and has things like picture-in-picture and noise reduction. Like the other TV, you might be able to disable it, and it might be a superb TV to own/rescue, but you might be safer looking at slightly older TVs which don't have the aforementioned inputs/features. Did you follow me on UKVAC the other day (someone did) - I can send you a message if-so (happy to review any TVs).

Why thank you. Interestingly, the Megalo 2 and Megalo 410 seem to have 24kHz monitors and need to use an upscaler PCB to handle 15kHz JAMMA games, so they never had the best display for older games anyway. You shouldn't need the upscaler PCB with this projector/

@@beaumotplage have you tried anything with this projector like a mistercade or raspberry pi set up?

@@JaGomez0285 I haven't, just the stuff in the video and one or two JAMMA boards (like Elevator Action Returns). Mister or PI should work though, I think (although you'll have to wire them into the VGA input and check they're ok with 70 ohm signal levels).

Any diferences with the um330x or um361x models, see they are cheaper, Im in the us, the um280x only see them in the UK

@@JaGomez0285 I think it's the brightness - those are both better than mine. I think the throw ratios and everything else is the same, but worth double-checking. I'll have to make some notes on how you wire an arcade PCB into this - ideally you want a de-amplifier circuit, but resistors on the RGB would work as a temporary solution (the 15-way VGA d-sub is the analog RGB input). I'm on the UKVAC website if that's easier than communicating on here 🙂

Hi, I've been working on this driver quite a bit since - I must do an update. I have 2-player multiplayer working on Ridge Racer 2 and Rave Racer (see the jb_build on the arcade controls forum). But, I'm curious why/where Namco would've said Full Scale had linkup as there's no evidence of it in the code or the full scale instruction manual I've since seen diagrams from. I wonder if it was a salesman misunderstanding what the inter-PCB comms offered on this game.

@@beaumotplage - Hello. Nice to hear from you. I could be wrong, but I will share what I saw. According to one user, apparently Namco released some alternate version Promotional Sales Flyers for Ridge Racer Full Scale to arcade owners. On a video game forum, one user shared a picture of the flyer he saved from the 1990s. In the picture, the words say something like "Have friends? Link up as many as you need!" Then Namco showed 4 Ridge Racer Full Scale machines all next each other. All of them racing in the same game. It was a huge setup. People were replying with amazement at how they never knew Full Scales could link up, and how expensive that type of setup would be. One Full Scale Machine was already hugely expensive. Unfortunately, the video game forum I saw it on shut down. I tried looking up the flyer on websites that save video game art, but I couldn't I find this alternate version artwork again. If you can't find any reference to multi-player in the code, then perhaps this "multiplayer" idea was a feature that Namco decided to drop? Maybe it required to some additional equipment to potentislly buy, but sales weren't good enough so they dropped the idea? Perhaps Namco realized that not many arcade owners would buy more than one Full Scale unit for their arcades, and scrapped the entire multiplayer idea? I know Sega released some huge multi-player arcade machines like their huge 8 player Virtua Racer arcade machine which was released in 1992 (one year before Ridge Racer Full Scale). With Each Virtua Racer cockpit having almost a full size indy car to sit in. And that Namco and Sega were competing heavily with eachother in the Arcade market back in the 80s and 90s. Anyways, keep up the good work with the coding and emulation. I'm glad Ridge Racer Full Scale was saved. I'm not sure any working Full Scale arcade units exist anymore. I haven't seen any in years. Have a nice day!

@@TheBigExclusive That's very interesting, obviously if such a flyer turns up, I'd love to see it. I think the bits and pieces were there to do such a linkup - Fullscale uses the same serial bus to do 3 screens as the other games use to do linkups, so they could've chained up lots of PCBs to do multiple screens and multiple cars. Plus the multiplayer code was in-progress as Ridge Racer 2 was released shortly afterwards. So I guess maybe there was once prototype code sitting on a hard disk at Namco.... As for remaining machines, what I think was the last Full Scale was at Blackpool until recently. In the last year, I can say that the car, the PCBs and the signs have been saved, although the room it all sat in was scrapped unfortunately. So I must do an update on emulation progress as some point, as a lot has happened.

@@beaumotplage Ridge Racer (Namco System 22) had GPU hardware licensed from Evans & Sutherland. Did you know?, already 1984 this company made graphics hardware for another at that time visually overwhelming driving simulator, namely the Daimler-Benz-Fahrsimulator - a 25 million DM expensive research apparatus in Germany, which Gould supercomputers permitted revolutionary colourful hires polygon graphics (often shown on TV), that was the gamer's inaccessible dream of its era... Again nothing remained. I only found this docu online. "Beiträge zur Informationstechnischen Grundbildung: 1. So tun als ob [SWF 1989]" th-cam.com/users/clipUgkxtUgG7Wtzo-n5ycxkcxrS4pHInRur5nle Ridge Racer Full Scale is important to preserve as a time document how impressive texture mapped graphics was to public audience. As spectacular attraction it pulled enough customers to its place to justify the hefty cost and required space.

Hi, sorry if there's any confusion, but this is for TVs with SCART connectors on them - common in Europe. It was also just something I made for myself and some friends - I wasn't planning on selling them. I think there are solutions out there that support TVs without SCART - they tend to have S-video or Composite ICs on them to convert RGB to those signals. The Parsec supergun looks like it does that, although I don't know how available that is.

Thank you. The smaller TV is just a Mitsubishi 14" portable I bought for £5. Not as sharp as a Trinitron, but still very good (if lacking in adjustments). The larger TV is a Toshiba 43VJ33Q Rear-Projection CRT (I have another video on that uploaded on here).

This TV is native 15kHz, so that matches arcade JAMMA boards, so the only converter I used was some op-amps to scale the voltages down to 75ohm SCART levels (a UK/EU supergun circuit - see my JammaToTV video for a diagram). Sadly 24kHz games are in a bit of a no-man's-land as far as TVs and monitors are concerned - this TV won't do it, I don't know any that will . CRT projectors often sync to 24kHz though (mine do), so I guess you may be able to play a giant game of HOTD against a wall (not much help - sorry)

Just be careful of 100Hz rear-projection TVs - there were a few of those around in the 00's and they most likely don't have scanlines as they upscale the image to 480p. In fact even Sega's Megalo 410 Rear projection cabinet doesn't have scanlines as it has an upscaler PCB :-(.

I bought it as-is - no modifications at all :-) (just a clean and tweaking the convergence). £50GBP. I've actually bought three of them, I like them so much (I use one as my arcade machine - see the last few minutes of my other video: th-cam.com/video/E1fAEn44i_A/w-d-xo.html

It's only a 240p/480i TV, so you can't run anything that wasn't intended for scanlines or interlacing. I would imagine it looks ok with DVDs, but I haven't tried it. Here's a video of the Wii running a beat-em-up in 480i. I think it looks rather nice (albeit 4:3). th-cam.com/video/CGn_AaQxyyE/w-d-xo.html

And here's the same image on an OLED using an upscaler. th-cam.com/video/ooj4ywjKxNQ/w-d-xo.html I do prefer the CRT in this case for older systems/games intended for 480i/240p

@@beaumotplage You can also try to vhs. Who I think, you would more Made for this.

@@BeatemupMaster DVDs were first released in 1996, and becoming common by the late 90s, so that was still pretty firmly in the CRT era too. They do seem to look better on CRT, but I suppose part of that is just because modern TVs are also considerably bigger(than conventional, not rptv, crts) now.

I actually did do some more work on it - there's a jb_mame build I put out on the Arcade Controls forum and UKVAC that also links up Ridge Racer 2 and Rave Racer (but just for 2 players). I'm still tinkering, just not managed to get much further with the rest of the link-up games (as every game seems to do something different), but I will keep looking at it (until someone beats me to it). Full scale does also run a lot faster now as I split it over multiple instances of MAME, so multi-core CPUs can be utilised.

I also replied to your comment on Full Scale :-), but yes, still tinkering. I should go back to Driver's Eyes and split the driver up to use multiple instances of MAME as it'll run much faster then (as nothing on the planet will run it 100% otherwise, using a single CPU core).

@@beaumotplage I've been doing my own personal research on Driver's Eyes and had no idea of its significance until recently. Thanks again for sharing your curiosity and exploration here on TH-cam. Others will find it as I have. 👍