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Blue Screen Of Death for Cabinet
DarkKobold:
Wow. I'm sorry, I think that is a first.
You can't learn basically anything from those pictures! (not your fault).... Really, who names a video game "Video Game"
Unfortuantely, this isn't really the place to restore video games. I'd register over at KLOV and see if they can identify the machine. The real question is, are you trying to restore it or MAME it?
If you are trying to MAME it, than the internal workings aren't going to help much. If you are trying to restore it, read KLOV message boards or rec.games.video.collecting (if you are new, go through google's free newsgroup service)
DarkKobold:
Also, those people MAY (key word) find it to be a rarity, and want to pay you mucho bucks to buy it, and also give you a cab worthy of MAMING. It appears to be an original whatever the frig it is. Crazy cab.
JoyMonkey:
Photos of the PCB might help. Take a look at the PCB (the original game's circuit board that is causing these 'purple screens of death') and try and find some markings by the manufacturer. The manufacturers name and some sort of serial number will usually be on there.
Also, most original PCBs will have markings on their ROM chips that correspond to the roms that Mame uses (inside the zip file).
RayB:
It can be anything..... Maybe the game circuit board is bad and it's outputting nothing but blue. On the other hand, the monitor itself might be shot and is displaying nothing but blue...
paigeoliver:
Dude, keep the repair thread about this game to one thread. I already ID'd the dang thing in the other thread. Now this thread just starts the whole thing all over again.
For everyone else. It is a chinese bootleg cabinet, an Artic (ATW) cabinet. It could have originally been sold without game, otherwise it was probably a bootleg Scramble or other space game. Artic (ATW) cabinets are not collectable unless they are dedicated minis that Todd at TNT amusements doesn't have, in which case he will pay nicely for them (the reason I mention that is because there are like 6 different types of ATW mini, and there were like 10 games that could have been "dedicated" in them). But that isn't a mini.
Now please do what I said and get a multimeter, you aren't going to be able to do any real testing without one.