Question about tiny 2/3 inch LCD/LED screens

I picked up one of these 1/12 scale plastic models of the Sega Astro City cabinet. Some people put raspberry pis and tiny LCD screens into them to make cute tiny arcade cabs such as this:




I'm very interested in adding some sort of tiny screen to mine, but having never done any projects with with tiny screens ever, I'm not really sure how to hook them up to anything such as my PC, a game console or a raspberry pi. None of the screens this tiny (ie: 2.2-2.5 inches) seem to have HDMI or other standard video inputs that my electronics output to. Many of the screens I see have some kind of ribbon cable coming out of them? What is the ribbon cable, is there an easy way I can get some kind of connector to connect VGA/HDMI/AV cables to the ribbon cable?

Example picture:


How are people connecting this stuff to a raspberry pi?

 

Hey.

I build a Gameboy nano for a friend, and I had to link a OLED tft screen to a Pi Zero.
I had to solder it on the GPIOs of the Pi and then add the SPI mode on your system (Retropie per exemple).

Maybe this could help you:

 

Cool, thanks.

I've also discovered that many cheapo Chinese car camera LCDs to be mounted in dashboards come with an RCA video input. Due to the bulk it wouldn't be the route to go if I were putting a raspberry pi in the arcade machine, but it could be quick and dirty if I just want to put the screen inside and hook up a dreamcast or something to display video on the screen in the arcade machine.

 

I picked up one of the chinese car camera lcds with RCA input for the quick and simple option. The one I got was a perfect fit, very simple to work into the model, and of course all my old systems with RCA video cables are straightforward to connect. I'd like to add internal speakers at some point too, but here's some pictures of the product for the moment.




More pics
http://imgur.com/a/6b0Uv

 

You can get composite video out from a raspberry pi through the 3.5mm jack. You can get a cable like this one:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2881

Adafruit also sells 2" screens that will work with the raspberry pi using composite:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/911

As far as getting HDMI to one of these tiny screens, you would need to use an HDMI to composite converter.