Quick school lesson on Nintendo Monitors.

[ArcadEd]

OK, so last question I think just to clear me up .

If it has the inverter it will work like any other RGB Arcade monitor.

If it has no inverter it will work only on Nintendo stuff (Vs. Playchoice, etc.).

Either way I need a 100v iso transformer to run them.

That about it?

OK, I don't know why this is so hard for me to grasp, but please help me out again. So I am looking at my Vs cab now, which is working btw, and notice the vs board is wired through the inverter. I thought that wasn't needed for the versus games?

Unless that part isn't really the inverter and I got some bad info earlier in this thread?

I am asking because one of my monitors does not this board at all, so I figured I could use that monitor in a nintendo cab. But now that I opened my cab I notice it does go through that board.

The picture is of my current nintendo cab.
Thanks again.

 

[RetroHacker]

OK, I don't know why this is so hard for me to grasp, but please help me out again. So I am looking at my Vs cab now, which is working btw, and notice the vs board is wired through the inverter. I thought that wasn't needed for the versus games?

It's not needed for VS games. But some games had them anyway. The inverter board has two outputs - invert out and non-invert out. The non-invert out is little more than a passthrough, so if a monitor/inverter board combination got used in a Nintendo game, that's how it was hooked up. Swap the plug over to the other output to use the inverter board.

Why some Nintendo games shipped with those inverter boards mounted, but bypassed, I don't know.

-Ian

 

[ArcadEd]

That clears it up perfect, thanks . So I can pull this one out, put in the one without the inverter board and then have 2 with inverter boards. That worked out great .

Thank you.