Ms. Pac Man Restoration

[jrivelli]

Hey guys, I am pretty new to the forum posting world in this particular forum, but have been reading all the posts for sometime now. Figured it was time for to make some posts of my own here.

I did a restore of a Ms. Pac and I'll post some pics and a bit more description here shortly this evening when it cools down out in the garage outside.

I do have one questions though. I have the game playing great, sounding great and looking pretty nifty as well. However, when I power the game on you can press start and get the game to play right away, however the screen will not come on for about 3-5min after being powered on. Has anyone ever run into this or had similar issues? Any advice on this would be excellent!

[Muffindude]

A cap kit will fix this.

[jrivelli]

I actually increased the voltage to the CRT heater, as suggested by a guy that helps me work on my games, and that actually seemed to do perfectly. I had already placed a cap kit on this monitor. That is step #1 for all the broken games I get

[jrivelli]

Here are some of the pictures I have. I didn't really get any good before pics. I got way too excited to fix this one up and neglected that, sorry! When I got it the machine did not work at all so there was a good chunk of things to do. If it wasn't one thing, it seemed to be another.

[fredster]

That's really nice.

I have a couple of old GO7's that are hell to warm up, but once they do, they are still pretty. 

Besides, if it works, why fix it?