My friend's Golden Tee 2005 monitor died and we're trying to figure out how to replace it with something that's readily available, even if it's only a temporary fix. A local arcade repair person told him (well supposedly, I wasn't there and my friend may have misunderstood) we can connect a regular VGA monitor directly to the video card bypassing the extra stuff that makes it work with the original arcade monitor. Does that sound correct?
As I'm searching online everything I read suggests that will not work, and that some kind of extra converter will still be needed but I may be confusing different things. Unfortunately we are both new to working with actual arcade machines.
I have a small LCD TV with VGA, a Sony 4:3 SDTV CRT that probably has component, and I think I still have a couple 21" CRT monitors with VGA packed away.
I will add a bit of backstory, he got this Golden Tee 2005 maybe 3 or 4 months ago, it was fully playable but on the first night of playing it was already freezing now and then. This local repair person put the power supply in and it seemed fine. Maybe an hour or two later the monitor was getting screwy, then the monitor shut off and never worked again. The repair person went back and told him it needs a new monitor.