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Midway Arcade Cabinet by Big Electronic Games
jbserra:
I'm just shocked the Konami has a VGA connector. They made these systems appear to be cartridge based with an interchangeable cartridge, but apparently the guts are entirely different. Obviously the monitor orientation is different, but I still thought it was the same little box with different games on the chips.
Hopefully it's not the board. Replacements may not be easy to come by. The Konami seems to be harder to find. You could open it up and check for something obvious like a blown capacitor or trace. Maybe if someone knows which part of the VGA connection controls what you're seeing, you can at least narrow it down to a path.
Good luck!
ice2921:
Time to revive this old thread once again. No point on wasting a new threat on this nasty little cade. Anyways, I was given one of these and I just started to fiddle with it. The main issue is that the monitor only shows less than half of the screen. So I decided to hook it up to an old lcd tv I had laying around but the picture is just white and distorted. Any ideas on how to get this to work with an lcd tv or Dell monitor? I've attached a picture of what it looks like when attached to the TV.
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jbserra:
Is the video direct from the "cartridge"? I would make sure you're bypassing the switch box to rule that out as an issue. If you're getting a bad signal direct from the cartridge, then I would think that's implicating the board itself inside the cartridge. You may have to open it up and see if there's anything obvious, otherwise you may be hunting for a replacement cartridge.
Other options would be to hack an old Playstation 2 controller to the control panel and put in the Midway Classics game disk in the PS2. Raspberry pi with Retropie would be another option. The pinout for the control panel is included in this thread. I've used it to hack in a PS2 controller successfully.
Good luck!
ice2921:
I plugged it in directly to the box, I think the cartridge box is good because I can see it on the original TLC TV. The problem is that it only shows less than half the screen.
Could you elaborate a little more on the PS2 Raspberry Pi options? Both seem interesting to me.
jbserra:
I tried to find a picture, but I took an old playstation2 controller, took it apart, scratched a little spot on each of the metal under the buttons and soldered a ribbon cable to each location. The ribbon cable had a floppy drive connector on the other side that actually fit the Control panel edge connector, so I just had to match up the wire on the edge connector to the ps2 controller input using the pin diagrams in this post. I can slip that edge connector on, plug the hacked controller into the playstation, power up and off I go.
For a Raspberry Pi, you could use the instructions and software from something like this:
http://www.retrobuiltgames.com/diy-kits-shop/arcade-fight-stick-v3/
I happen to have one of those kits, so I would probably just use the Midway buttons/joystick instead of the ones in the fight stick and be off and running. One potential issue is the Pi is HDMI, so you would need a converter or a different display. I'm using a 20" Trinitron at the moment which isn't HDMI compatible, so I'd have to either swap it or find a converter.
I'm sure there are other ways to do it too, but that's where I would start.
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