The Great Ikaruga Monitor Search!!!

ah, Ikaruga!! It is my belief that this game will force many a gamer to go the VGA monitor, TATE route when it comes to gaming. But, with so many monitors out there and some many of us on a tight budget, I figured that we could help each other out a bit. Tell us about good monitor deals out there in all different size ranges. What discount stores have you had experience with and was it worth it? Should we be looking for xvga monitors? What monitor would you recommend?

Provide any links you can to good deals

i'd recommend searching out some local prices in warehouses or whatever, since anything would be cheaper than ordering online and having to pay for shipping..

Hmm. All this talk about Ikaruga VGA blah blah TATE blah blah is influencing me to hooking my DC to a monitor. Should I even contemplate NCSX's XRGB-2 Plus converter or should I go for a VGA cable. If VGA cable is the way to go, which one should I get?

Will just any old VGA PC monitor do?

With the DC, just use a regular computer monitor with a VGA cable. A VGA cable should be about $200 cheaper than an XRGB2 plus, and it's already a progressive image, which would look a lot better than a line-doubled RGB image out of the XRGB2 anyways.

I picked up a FREE PC from my girlfriends old job. The PC is crap, but it came with a monitor. I would imagine any one of those stores that sell old PC hardware would have cheap monitors. Try flea markets too. Or go to CompUSA and buy a brand new one.

My school upgraded pretty much all their computers over the summer, there's monitors just strewn about in the halls here. And not just crappy ones, I've spotted a lot of 19" and 21" ones too. If they're just sitting in the hallway, does this mean they're free? :)

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Originally posted by lithium
My school upgraded pretty much all their computers over the summer, there's monitors just strewn about in the halls here. And not just crappy ones, I've spotted a lot of 19" and 21" ones too. If they're just sitting in the hallway, does this mean they're free? :)

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Take one and find out ;)

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Originally posted by lithium
My school upgraded pretty much all their computers over the summer, there's monitors just strewn about in the halls here. And not just crappy ones, I've spotted a lot of 19" and 21" ones too. If they're just sitting in the hallway, does this mean they're free? :)

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Sure does! Any piece of electronic equipment left unattedned for any amount of time is fair game to whoever wants it. I think it's part of the Freedom of Information Act.






























Ignore that jackass response. :)

Just one question about TATE:

Do you turn your monitor 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise for it to display correctly?

Counterclockwise.

Did some one say budget?

Get a Commodore monitor. A 1084 (any of the variations) will do fine and only run you about $50 or so shipped.

The best part? RGB capabilities. You'll just need Matt to hook you up with some cables and you're set.

And these things are easily flippable.


GET ONE!

Can someone point me towards a vga dc hookup?

Click_Stick,

I'm ready to make the RGB jump. How do I get a hold of Matt?

Mail him at the_matthew@yahoo.ca. Ask about his RGB cable options...

Great guy. Enjoy!

OK, maybe you guys can give me a hand...

I want to get a monitor for Ikaruga and other shooters so I can do the 3:4 TATE mode thing. Can you find anything wrong with these monitors?
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...ct_code=280665
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...ct_code=280664

http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...ct_code=289682

I'd really like to go a bit bigger than the 13 inch Commodore monitors. Does RGB really make a difference? What systems have RGB capability and which can be modded for it? Now, I'm confused about the difference between VGA and RGB.

I'm also considering using one of these monitors in a NEOGEO setup. Would this be a good thing or would it be better just to use a JAMMA unit's s-video output and put it into my SONY 32" HDTV?

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Originally posted by amerlop
I want to get a monitor for Ikaruga and other shooters so I can do the 3:4 TATE mode thing.

I'd really like to go a bit bigger than the 13 inch Commodore monitors. Does RGB really make a difference? What systems have RGB capability and which can be modded for it? Now, I'm confused about the difference between VGA and RGB.

I'm also considering using one of these monitors in a NEOGEO setup. Would this be a good thing or would it be better just to use a JAMMA unit's s-video output and put it into my SONY 32" HDTV?

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Well, Commodore 1084 monitors are 14 inches... so there is your 'bit bigger'...

I'm pretty sure most, if not all systems have RGB capabilities. You just need the goods. I actually do not know much about VGA, but I do know that RGB is the definitive way to view games [it's what they all say, after all] and Commodore monitors (like the 1084) are cheap. Cheap-cheap for what they offer: RGB capabilities, easily flippable-ness, and sexual pleasure.


Those links are busted.