Hi all, just ran across this thread and was wondering if anyone was still active on it? I've had one of these Midway Big Electronic Games arcade machines since 2007 (bought used) and just recently it stopped working. Not sure if the main board went bad or perhaps the monitor. Was just wondering if any of you had a similar problem that you troubleshooted correctly.
Before it stopped working, I caught my 4 year old pushing the Reset button over and over forever as only kids will for some reason want to do, so I'm wondering if that messed up the board.
I took the back of the cabinet off and only had a short time yesterday to start my troubleshooting. The first thing I did was plug a portable DVD player into the monitor's inputs, but nothing played on the monitor. That leads me to believe the monitor is bad. It seems like the speakers are in the monitor as well, so that would explain why no sound is heard even if the picture is bad.
When I have a chance to get back into it, the next thing I will try is to plug the output from the board into a working TV just to see if the board is working properly. Anyone have any other suggestions?
One unrelated question I had is if the cartridge is supposed to be able to be pulled out from the front of the machine (above the screen)? It looks like it should pull out, but I pried on it a little and it did not budge. I didn't force the issue because I didn't want to break it. Also, I started loosening the board housing from the backside of the bezel, but it would not come off despite removing the 4 screws holding it against the bezel. Also, the screws holding the housing together are only accessible from underneath, which is just about impossible without taking the structure of the cabinet apart (I'm wondering if whoever put mine together attached the board housing to the backside of the bezel upside down by accident).
In any case, if this thread is still active, please let me know if you have any troubleshooting tips!
-James