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Dig Dug Restoration by a Complete Noob

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Pop Culture Portal:
I'm really needing some help and hope you guys can hold my hand through the majority of this restoration as I am completely new at this.

I bought several games about a year ago and am just now getting around to working on some of them.  The Dig Dug that I bought for about $75 worked at one time according to the guy I bought it from.  He said he didn't have time to fix it.  Since it hasn't been hacked/converted into something else, everything appears to be intact.

I get it home, turn it on but there is no picture...only a gentle hum.  I figure it probably could use a cap kit.  I've read up on cap kits and am pretty confident that I can do it, including discharging the monitor.  I'm looking around inside the cabinet at the monitor and notice that there are several cracks/breaks in the monitor board where it is attached/screwed into the monitor chassis.  I can post pictures later if needed.

Now for the stupid question...do I need a new monitor for this poor machine or can I just replace the board?  It looks like it has a G07 monitor in it (I think).  If I get a new monitor, what would be the best kind for Dig Dig?

Level42:
It just so happens that FrizzleFried has a working G07 chassis  for sale:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=90183.0

Monitors are not game specific. (unless we're talking vectors or mid-res monitors) so you can swap them around at will (apart from the connectors that can be different of course).

I would get that chassis from the Frizz and be done with it.

Pop Culture Portal:
Awesome!  PM sent to FrizzleFried.

SirPeale:
Hold up...

Does the game play blind?  When you coin it up does it do anything at all?

Pop Culture Portal:
Nope, nothing at all...coin door, marquee and the like light up, but nothing else.  It still has the "Big Blue" in it and I plan on changing that out soon as I get an order to Bob Roberts, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it.  :-\

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