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Midway Arcade Cabinet by Big Electronic Games
jbserra:
--- Quote from: Rada Rada on January 11, 2018, 01:11:07 am ---Would someone be able to help me out by sending over the archived webpage for this cabinet? Yes I too fell into the trap and looking to change the monitor and add more sound.
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PM your email address and I'll add you to the share on dropbox. Thanks
jbserra:
--- Quote from: MdPhoenix on January 21, 2018, 09:14:48 pm ---It is both hilarious and interesting to me that this thread is still going. When I first found it, and saw it started in 2007, I had no hope. But seeing that it keeps getting revived, I've gotta laugh, and join in.
I have attempted the same as Ice2921. I cannot get it to work properly on an LCD. I have a Dell LCD 4:3 monitor with a composite input. Sometimes I get a B/W display with strange lines, although the games are perfectly visible. Sometimes I get what looks like a weak signal along with an off-color band going down the left side of the monitor about 1/5 of the way in from the side. It looks good on the CRT the unit came with, but as we know, the colors are a bit off and it's quite small. My idea was to convert this into a tabletop as the base was trashed on mine.
I have no serious love for this thing, but 4 dear friends of mine spent way too much on it for me and I want to resurrect it to make them feel better. I know they paid at least 200 bucks for it. I didn't have the heart to tell them it was crap. Only that the base was water damaged and it needed to be rebuilt.
I saw up above that Viewsonix stated the box might just not put out enough juice for another monitor. Has anyone tried a video amp? I'd much rather use an LCD, but I do have a source of old flat screen CRTs at work. I'm going to bring one home to see if the display is better on one of those. But LCD is definitely desired.
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The only place on the internet to talk about it! :-) Welcome to the party!
MdPhoenix:
Hey, thanks!
I got it working on an old Commodore CRT, and a tiny 7" LCD screen from a vehicle entertainment system. But no go on a 20" LCD. My buddy brought over a VHS enhancer (one of those old tweaking boxes for getting past Macrovision), and it didn't help much at all. I think I might try buying a straight video AMP from Amazon and give it a shot. I REALLY want it working with this Dell 20" LCD.
BigJer:
Greetings all! What a wonderful thread. I am here to help keep it going with some questions. Keep in mind this is my first foray into Arcades as a hobby.(Not to mention from reading reviews around the web and this thread it appears people do not consider this device a "true" arcade system, but meh!)
I picked one of these up a week back or so for what I felt was relatively cheap. It fired up and I could play "some" of the games. The problem was that not all of the controls worked. Upon removing the controller platform I discovered why. It appears, what I will call the pass-through controller pcb, that the wire connections have been soldered and re-soldered countless times. I found numerous wire breaks. (Image 1)With this knowledge and the wiring pin out found in this thread, (Thanks for that btw!) I will be attempting to remove all wires this weekend and cleaning up the board as best as possible and then re-tinning all the wires and soldering them back into the board.
My question is directed to jbserra. Where did you find the board you were using to mod that controller? (jbserra's image from post above or Image 2 attached) My thought was, if my cleanup and re-solder was not successful this weekend, could I not get two of those boards and and hook one up for Player 1 controls and one up for Player 2 controls and figure a way out to mount them inside? Was that a specific board for your mod or is it just a pass-through for the connections much like the original board in the system?
Anyway, thanks again for keeping this thread alive and the information provided here. It has helped me feel much more comfortable about taking on what I am going to do. I do not plan on doing any mods "yet" I would like to get it up and running first and let the kids and grandkids play it first. Not to mention, I spent many an allowance and mowed many a lawn just to feed my Joust addiction.
jbserra:
That is the original board that plugs into the back of the cartridge, but you have to remove it from the sleeve. I disconnect the board from the back of the cartridge and hook my ribbon cable to it to take the CP inputs and pass it along to my hacked PS2 controller which is plugged into the PS2 :-)
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