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SPACE INVADERS DELUXE: To restore or MAME?
SirPeale:
If you can't find a working black and white monitor, anywhere, you've got to be looking in the wrong places.
What is the make and model of the monitor?
AlanS17:
--- Quote from: Peale on May 08, 2005, 08:02:35 am ---If you can't find a working black and white monitor, anywhere, you've got to be looking in the wrong places.
What is the make and model of the monitor?
--- End quote ---
I don't know the make/model. I just search around for a "Space Invaders monitor". It's black and white, but it seem unique. It's got no monitor frame. The tube and chssis are independent, and wires are run between them. The chassis for the thing is built onto this huge metal board that's mounted to a wooden shelf inside suspended inside the machine. The tube is suspended, facing up, above it - not by mounts, but directly by the bolt holes in the four corners.
Lemme find a link for the auction I won on Ebay so you can see this whacky chassis... (Note the the onitor I bought is already damaged.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6173517902&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1
RayB:
Doesn't the monitor mount have a color overlay in front of it? And isn't the image reflected onto some artwork? Every game you'd play would be overlayed on a moon image.
And you say a "professional" looked at the monitor, but what kind of professional?If they called a TV repair guy, then of course he couldn't fix it. Even arcade game repair guys, used to working on modern machines won't have the resources to fix old stuff like this. You have to go to the "niche" classic repair people who know where to get the old parts and stuff.
My concern is you take all the parts out, put them away and one day lose some of them, damage them or whatever. Home-owned machines are RARE. What's wrong with restoring this and then making a 2nd MAME cab? Freebie cabs are available everywhere.
Here's a monitor chassis for parts: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6177108506&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
This SI sold for only $250, but that's what happens when you only offer "local pickup": http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13716&item=6173918190&rd=1
This one sold for $695: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13716&item=6173937811&rd=1
SirPeale:
That's good as it has the overlay. I think most monitors that old are going to have burn.
If you have trouble with it, a quick post in RGVAC would probably net you a working monitor close by. In fact, I'm suprised you didn't try there first.
AlanS17:
The monitor does have a color film overlay (which I still have). It's reflected onto a 2-way mirror so that you see the image and artwork behind it.
I don't know who this "professional" was that checked it out.
I realize how rare this thing is. That's why I'm trying to be careful with it. Finding a good monitor would be ideal, but it's been pretty hard to do.
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