After dicking around trying to get a working XRGB for a sane price and failing. After mailing miserably trying to get anything but JAMMA boards and the Saturn to sync with the GBS8118...I leapt at the chance to get this:
Its a pro video monitor made by JVC. In that pic its hooked up to a PCE via composite, and even that looks good, but the real draw is:
RGB. Real RGB. Fully analog, RGB/RGBS, 15khz. No bullshit. No dot crawl. No nasty upscaling artifacts. No delay. No blur. No broken shadows. Nothing like that. Perfect. Flawless. FLAWLESS. When it comes to video quality I can bitch about anything. This though...zero flaws. Flaw. Less.
This monitor has amazingly few hours on it. Zero bloom or burn in and the focus is very very tight. I literally have every knob in its default position and the image is perfect.
I love the input controls too. It has mechanically self canceling buttons so instead of cycling through a huge list of inputs you just push the one you want and the input you were previously on pops out.
It has composite (BNC), Y/C (mini DIN), component RGB (BNC) and component YPbPr (BNC). It has a built in blue mode and color drop out for calibration. It even has a tiny little speaker!
The board there is the "Hispanic" (their term, not mine) version of Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha. I was surprised to learn there even was a "western hemisphere excluding the United States" version of this game since there is no blue board, at least not that I know of. I've wanted this ever since I learned it existed. I have the Saturn version of Street Fighter Zero 2' (Street Fighter alpha 2 Gold) which is pretty close, but not quite. Dramatic Battle, here I come!
The monitor I got on a trade. The thing I traded it for cost me $20. The board was $65.
