MegaTouch Counter Top : Conversion?

[General Zod]

I scored a pretty good find today. A local pub was cleaning house and I managed to nab a decent barstool as well as a MegaTouch 6 Countertop unit.  ( not to shabby for missing the auction today )

It appears to have seen better days, and it's missing the entire coin mech on the right side of the unit. I can still enter free credits through the bios, and it's actually playable.

I keep having these ideas though, of a Bartop MAME. After looking inside, it wouldn't be to hard to replace that MoBo with a newer one, and an aVGA for the monitor.

If it can be done, it would be like the ultimate game machine. Like a GameBoy, only bigger. I see possibilities with the fact I can move it from place to place.

Anybody ever fooled with one of these and tried that idea?

[TheTurk]

Are you interested in selling it?

[Ken Layton]

The 6 is a good game. You can buy a replacement coin box slide in assembly from Merit. These games used a standard res (CGA) monitor in them. The later model Megatouch games with CD rom drives and hard drives used VGA type monitors. Most games were equipped with MICROTOUCH brand touch screen controllers and a few games games were shipped with those crappy ELO brand touchscreens.

[General Zod]

The monitor has a great picture, but the touch controller is starting to go, or I assume it is. I've tried calibrating it, and I was even able to download the user's manual, but it's a little off on certain spots on the screen.

That's why I was wondering how hard it would be to MAME. If I were to put any real money into this, I would never see a good return on it as I could buy a new MT6 for around $450.

There's a little Peter Chou power supply in there, are those any good?

[Ken Layton]

Yup, the Peter Chou power supplies are the best power supplies ever made for commercial coin-operated video games. Very reliable and when they break are easy and cheap to fix.

[TheTurk]

Where can a new MT6 be purchased for $450?

[General Zod]

Posted by: TheTurk  Posted on: Today at 04:51:04pm  
Where can a new MT6 be purchased for $450?

Check around, and you can find the older MT's quite reasonable. If you've seen the newer ones, they blow away the old MT's to shreds.

It's an old board with no upgrades. No CdRom or any other means of updating. And graphics-wise, compared to the newer models, it's like an Atari2600 to an xBOX.

If you check out a few places, and do a little homework you'll be surprised how well you can do. Biggest problem is some people immediately become a MARK, and salesman spot that a mile away.