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Arcade Legends - a way to change the operating resolution?
So this thing is basically a tower. It has the VGA output go to a small board (along with the audio ouput, keyboard output, etc) then to the monitor. At first I thought this was a VGA-to-whatever converter among other things.
But when the game initially boots up, it has a scramble picture during the loading. Once the Ultracade front end is running, the image syncs perfectly.
Now, I recently had to change a battery in one. I hooked up a VGA monitor to the output so I could get into the CMOS and reset the power on option. During boot-up, the loading is VGA, but the pic scrambles on the VGA monitor as soon as the software is running. This tells me that the resolution is software based and not hardware based.
I'm trying to figure out how I can tell it to either always output as VGA, or whether I can change the output to CGA, EGA, or whatever. Could these things have an ArcadeVGA card in them?
A friend was telling me that there might be a jumper on the motherboard for determining the sync output, but I'd think that it would always be in one sync if that were the case, and I wouldn't have been able to use the computer monitor during CMOS setup, and the arcade monitor during gameplay.
Anyone have a clue about these things and their resolution setup? I have an extra case that might work, but I want to be able to hook it up to the same monitor for CMOS and gameplay screens....
So this thing is basically a tower. It has the VGA output go to a small board (along with the audio ouput, keyboard output, etc) then to the monitor. At first I thought this was a VGA-to-whatever converter among other things.
But when the game initially boots up, it has a scramble picture during the loading. Once the Ultracade front end is running, the image syncs perfectly.
Now, I recently had to change a battery in one. I hooked up a VGA monitor to the output so I could get into the CMOS and reset the power on option. During boot-up, the loading is VGA, but the pic scrambles on the VGA monitor as soon as the software is running. This tells me that the resolution is software based and not hardware based.
I'm trying to figure out how I can tell it to either always output as VGA, or whether I can change the output to CGA, EGA, or whatever. Could these things have an ArcadeVGA card in them?
A friend was telling me that there might be a jumper on the motherboard for determining the sync output, but I'd think that it would always be in one sync if that were the case, and I wouldn't have been able to use the computer monitor during CMOS setup, and the arcade monitor during gameplay.
Anyone have a clue about these things and their resolution setup? I have an extra case that might work, but I want to be able to hook it up to the same monitor for CMOS and gameplay screens....

