Nice! I was thinking about making a mini arcade cabinet with a mega drive but decided against it after researching more into the psone LCD and finding how only a certain screen from a specific region would work with these machines, didn’t want to risk finding halfway through the build that the LCD I bought would never work (although I could be wrong about the whole region thing).

Posted at 4:41 pm on Aug 9th, 2009 by Ocarina

all you have to worry about with those old systems is NTSC or PAL and get a screen that will match it.

Posted at 7:18 pm on Aug 9th, 2009 by sly

I don’t think that these lcds can be region locked. As far as i know all the old systems use NTSC which doesn’t support any kind of DRM (to my knowlege)

Posted at 7:30 pm on Aug 9th, 2009 by noob saibot

Those are so well done. It bottles my mind to think they aren’t professional units.

I would not be surprised if he has already done it but a dreamcast one would be brilliant!

Posted at 7:33 pm on Aug 9th, 2009 by Hockeytree

Hi, the problem with the lcd is the 50/60 hz, pal works at 50 hz (slower framerate) and ntsc at 60 hz (the real thing) so… ntsc better. Sony make 2 models instead of one compatible with both regions, other screens maybe doesn´t hace this problem.

A dreamcast mini… interesting… ;)

Posted at 10:48 pm on Aug 9th, 2009 by pocket_lucho

“bottles my mind” – nothing is too obscure in the web

Posted at 11:25 pm on Aug 9th, 2009 by miked

Why not use a Dingoo running Dingux (see: http://tinyurl.com/q97e3d) for a diy arcade cabinet? it already comes equipped with a a/v out so any cheap display with a composite in will do and the controller would just need some new wiring

Posted at 3:31 am on Aug 10th, 2009 by max

@Hockeytree

…. You mean a Naomi one, right? ;)

Anywho, a few comments on the whole framerate thing. The MVS board outputs a framerate of 15Khz. I don’t see a supergun in the mix, so I’m assuming that the little LCD supports it.

Posted at 3:32 am on Aug 10th, 2009 by Karm

@pocket_lucho: I’ll take Perfect At Last over Never Twice the Same Colour any day. ;-) Some devices do support PAL 60, though some may assume 60Hz = NTSC and turn black and white.

Extremely nicely built units, in any case!

Posted at 3:51 am on Aug 10th, 2009 by benryves

MAx, I was thinking the same thing.

The Dingoo A320 is a versatile piece.

Heck, you could even break out the controls if you wanted to and bury the whole mess inside the cabinet.

There is a lot of cool tech to make projects like these possible nowadays.

Great stuff.

Posted at 7:04 am on Aug 10th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

PAL is 50Hz yeah but it also has a higher resolution and more accurate/robust color system compared to NTSC, so to say ‘NTSC is better’ is not quite true, resolution matters.

Posted at 8:36 am on Aug 10th, 2009 by Wwhat

incidentally, I feel you’ll never get the feel of an arcade at home, it’s not the machine but where it is, and when it is.

Posted at 8:37 am on Aug 10th, 2009 by Wwhat

The problem is that the neogeo mvs works only with the 60 hz screen… in a pal psone screen the image rolls, This screen is interlaced, not progresive, for this reason, I can conect directly the rgb and sync output to the screen, like pal tv, no supergun needed, For this reason, I think the rgb out only works on pal tvs…

I live in a pal area, but in the 16 bit era, this was a BIG problem, black bars due the extra resolution and slower gameplay for the 10 hz difference, the good thing is that ‘recent’ crt pal tvs accept pal and ntsc without any problem.

The dingo screen is too small, I prefer using a mini itx pc board, loke you will see soon ;)

Posted at 9:29 am on Aug 10th, 2009 by pocket_lucho

If someone sold those I’d freakin love to have one of each!!

Posted at 7:39 pm on Aug 10th, 2009 by yuppicide

wow i didnt think so many people would respond to my random comment.

@pocket_lucho
Thanks for agreeing

@miked
yeah after i heard it i cant say boggles anymore

@karm
a naomi would be great but DCs are smaller, cheaper, and have way more games. I dont see why it shouldnt be done!

Posted at 11:23 pm on Aug 10th, 2009 by Hockeytree

@pocket_lucho

do you sell these? im from the US and would like to buy one. i used to have a full size neo geo arcade machine in my apartment and this mini one would be amazing!! especially running samurai showdown 2!!

Posted at 11:59 am on Aug 11th, 2009 by MINI vanilli

I’d love the plans for those. I wanted to make one a few months back and put my slim PS2 in it, but never got around to it

Posted at 5:41 pm on Aug 13th, 2009 by Techni

I like this, think I need to set up my own blog sometime.

Posted at 2:39 pm on Aug 19th, 2009 by PS3 Slim Free