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Its comprised of some old parts I had, as well as some new ones I purchased.

A DIY Arcade Console That Plays All Your Favorite Games in 240p RGB.

This guide is just a collection of my research and notes assembled to hopefully help others out.

I do NOT take responsibility to any damage you may cause to your system or hardware.

Even with every retro console ever made, youre still missing out on a huge chunk of gaming history: the arcade.

While people have been building amazing MAME cabinets for years, some of us just dont have the space or resources for one.

Thankfully, over the last few years conditions have ripened for easily building the ultimate 240p arcade console that never was.

You may be asking yourself, why go through all this trouble when you can just use a Raspberry Pi or hacked Wii While the Pi is a great and inexpensive way to play games on digital displays, its not able to output high-quality analog video signals like RGB or Component yet ( Update: there are a couple solutions out there now like Pi2Scart and Gert666, but as far as I know Pi is still not able to seamlessly switch resolutions).

Hacked Wiis are also great for playing various console emulators on CRTs, but its arcade support is dismal, and cant even load ROMs over 20mb due to memory restrictions.

Luckily, a saint that goes by the name Calamity took it upon himself to create the perfect combination of software for PCs that can detect an arcade games native resolution and output it exactly as the real hardware would to your CRT TV.

The purpose of this guide is to build a small, fast machine that fits comfortably into your existing SCART setup and allows you to play any arcade game from Donkey Kong to DoDonPachi in perfect 240p RGB.

Before we start talking about the system, lets quickly cover how all this works.

CRT TVs operate at 480i (640x480 interlaced), and retro game consoles run at almost half that at 240p (320x240 progressive).

Computers, on the other hand, use much higher resolutions (640x480 progressive and beyond), and therefore require a much higher frequency.

Because of this, modern video cards dont commonly support the super low resolutions we need for retro games.

Aero Fighters 2 Mame Rom Set Wii Driver Just For

He created a hacked video driver just for this situation called CRT Emudriver that enables compatible Radeon video cards to output the low resolution 15kHz signals needed for TVs.

Just being able to output at a single frequency isnt enough though.

Unlike game consoles, arcade games used a myriad of different resolutions and frequencies.

Luckily, through a combination of software (VMMaker and GroovyMAME, Calamitys own modified version of MAME), you can build all the needed resolutions for your games once and your system will switch seamlessly between them when the games are launched.

The result is perfect scrolling with zero screen tearing or juddering for virtually any arcade game out there with no effort from you beyond the initial setup.

The huge downside to these cards though is that they ship with a limited number of timings built-in, and may or may not include ones for the games you want to play.

The CRT Emudriver setup on the other hand allows you to play all games without concern of whether its supported by the card or not.