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Title: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on September 08, 2010, 10:30:42 pm
(http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/293ab910-911a-4c5a-a6aa-c84ba40fc0f1.jpg)
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: dawolv on September 08, 2010, 10:33:40 pm
 :laugh2:
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: pinballwizard79 on September 08, 2010, 10:45:42 pm
 :laugh2: :laugh2:

Top that
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: WhereEaglesDare on September 08, 2010, 11:03:08 pm
Poor guy
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: wp34 on September 08, 2010, 11:03:32 pm
Look at the smile on that dude's face.  How can it be a fail?   ;D
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Smeghead on September 09, 2010, 01:19:27 am
Its about 10% fail 90% win
hes only a cheap TV and a bezel away from awesomeness!
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: bkenobi on September 09, 2010, 01:53:11 am
25" arcade monitor > 17" PC display

Otherwise though, it doesn't look too bad to me.  Hell, he seems to have gotten the controls to work nicely!
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Ginsu Victim on September 09, 2010, 11:36:24 am
 :dizzy:
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: bkenobi on September 09, 2010, 11:46:44 am
Not necessarily.  There was just a picture posted, so I don't really know what it started out like.  If it was a gutted cab, then he got it back to stock (sans monitor).  If he's using MAME, that's something.  If he's using an original board set and just put a POS monitor in, then yeah...FAIL
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Ginsu Victim on September 09, 2010, 11:51:00 am
I saw the pic wrong. I thought it was 18 Wheeler. It isn't.

Edit: Nevermind. It IS.
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Osirus23 on September 09, 2010, 12:39:24 pm
I saw the pic wrong. I thought it was 18 Wheeler. It isn't.

What is it then? Side art, marquee, and screen all look like it.
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: CheffoJeffo on September 09, 2010, 12:42:39 pm
Otherwise though, it doesn't look too bad to me.  Hell, he seems to have gotten the controls to work nicely!

I doubt he did anything more than plug the monitor into the NAOMI mobo, so the controls would still work fine.
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Ginsu Victim on September 09, 2010, 01:10:38 pm
I saw the pic wrong. I thought it was 18 Wheeler. It isn't.

What is it then? Side art, marquee, and screen all look like it.


Dunno, because the screen appears to be a different game.

Nevermind, just found a screen that shows it IS the game.

I was expecting the time limit in the upper-left corner, not GEAR, but that is from the game. It's been a long time since last played it (good game).
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: TOK on September 09, 2010, 01:51:28 pm
I'm guilty of doing this with my Golden Tee... I used an RGB encoder and PC monitor to make sure everything else was working before dropping the cash on a new monitor.
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: bkenobi on September 09, 2010, 02:47:16 pm
Wait, that means he just put a PC monitor into an otherwise working cabinet?





FAIL!!!
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: CheffoJeffo on September 09, 2010, 02:49:54 pm
Atta boy!

 :applaud:
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Hoopz on September 09, 2010, 03:13:00 pm
Fail would be a green screen monitor.  Cut the guy some slack.   ;)
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: JustMichael on September 09, 2010, 04:40:53 pm
Perhaps the old pc monitor is just for now until he can get (afford) the proper arcade monitor? Glad he can still use the machine.
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: DJ_Izumi on September 09, 2010, 11:08:25 pm
I'm guilty of doing this with my Golden Tee... I used an RGB encoder and PC monitor to make sure everything else was working before dropping the cash on a new monitor.

The NAOMI and Chihiro boards I know both supported RGBHV output, so the boards can output native RGBHV to any PC monitor and it should work.  I doubt any real conversion was done to make this work.
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Havok on September 10, 2010, 12:40:20 am
Reminds me of this slice of awesomeness:

Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: bkenobi on September 10, 2010, 02:25:54 am
Oooooh...a 13" display!  Awesome!   :cheers:
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: severdhed on September 11, 2010, 09:26:02 am
what's next? are you going to make fun of my 17" LCD showcase cabinet too?
 ;D
(http://www.severdhed.com/images/arcade/showcase/IMG_2297.JPG)
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Turnarcades on September 11, 2010, 08:42:12 pm
Could do with a little more space on the control panel, but colour th monitor bezel in with a permo marker and you're good.
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: bkenobi on September 11, 2010, 11:43:08 pm
No way, showcases are a different ball game!   :laugh2:
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: Malenko on September 12, 2010, 09:15:13 am
wheres the cab that had like 3  or 4 bezels?
Title: Re: Arcade repair fail
Post by: JustMichael on September 12, 2010, 08:23:33 pm
what's next? are you going to make fun of my 17" LCD showcase cabinet too?
 ;D

Aren't you supposed to put that little white "base" on the ground and then put the monitor on that?  Then you would get a sore neck from having to look down at the monitor....   ;D