"G'day" from a CRT obsessed Aussie

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Hey guys,

I'm an daily reader of this forum but this is the first time I've ever posted!

I live in Australia and collect SCART televisions for use with MAME. I use GroovyMAME to play all my favourite games at native resolution and refresh rate using the RGB input of my SCART televisions. Looks and sounds amazing!

I know that this forum is focused on "real" and classic hardware as opposed to emulation but I figured I'd stick my neck out and post anyway since this is the premier CRT technical forum and I have a few questions I'd eventually like to ask.

Anyway... hopefully I'm not already off side but you should check out my blog to see what I've been up to over the last 12 months: http://scarthunter.blogspot.com.au/

In particular, you might be interested in my modding work. I'm pretty green but I'm pleased with how far I've come in the space of a year: http://scarthunter.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/how-to-customise-scart-tv-for-use-with.html

I'd love to be able to collect actual coin-op machines but I just don't have the space so an awesome SCART TV hooked up to GroovyMAME has to suffice for the moment.

If I don't get chased out of here for being an emulation guy then I like to ask for some advice on tools I should buy for working on TVs and monitors (desoldering gear, meters, etc.)

Cheers!

Dale
 
Welcome Dale. Ask away, just be assured you will get lots of opinions, and the more specific your question, the more specific the answer.

Cool blog, but that "degauss wand" is definitely very suspicious looking! o_O
 
Welcome to klov,

I too don't have much space for the entire arcade games so I just hoard all of the cheap pcb's I can find and repair them when I have time to. I have been thing about building cab's out of trees that have been sawed as where I live they don't use the outer layer with the bark and I think that would look good for a cab. It would not fall apart when wet and it is not made with poison.

I hope you find the answers you are looking for and wonder if you got to see the light show in the sky the other week.
 
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