scottkeen
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I'm new to this. Just bought 2 arcade games, but no video
Hi everyone, I'm new here. I've been wanting to build a MAME arcade, but instead just picked up these 2 very used arcade cabinets. I have some monitor questions and some general newbie questions.
The marquee on the first one reads "X-Men vs Street Fighter" and it has a Capcom CP System II computer inside.
The marquee on the second one reads "Tekken 4" but it doesn't have Tekken running on it. It has an ICade 60-in-1 computer inside.
Both arcades have a Zenith 25" CRT. The Street Fighter has the CRT mounted horizontally, the ICade has the CRT mounted vertically.
The Street Fighter boots up, says "Capcom" (Japanese girl accent) and you can hear music and fight sounds in the background. But no video.
The ICade boots up and actually works but the screen is so blurry and dim, it's unplayable.
I have a few questions:
1) I spent $200 for both of these. Did I do OK, or over-pay? Should these just go to the landfill?
2) What can I do to see if I can get these CRTs to work? The SF CRT doesn't come on at all, the ICade is blurry and dim.
3) The cabinets are chipped and the MDF is crumbly and swelling (high humidity here in Hawaii). Would I just be better off removing all the components and building a cabinet from scratch? What would you do?
I live on an outer island of Hawaii, so my choices for replacement monitors are very limited -- basically what people are selling in garage sales, and whatever is for sale at Costco/Walmart/Target.
Hi everyone, I'm new here. I've been wanting to build a MAME arcade, but instead just picked up these 2 very used arcade cabinets. I have some monitor questions and some general newbie questions.
The marquee on the first one reads "X-Men vs Street Fighter" and it has a Capcom CP System II computer inside.
The marquee on the second one reads "Tekken 4" but it doesn't have Tekken running on it. It has an ICade 60-in-1 computer inside.
Both arcades have a Zenith 25" CRT. The Street Fighter has the CRT mounted horizontally, the ICade has the CRT mounted vertically.
The Street Fighter boots up, says "Capcom" (Japanese girl accent) and you can hear music and fight sounds in the background. But no video.
The ICade boots up and actually works but the screen is so blurry and dim, it's unplayable.
I have a few questions:
1) I spent $200 for both of these. Did I do OK, or over-pay? Should these just go to the landfill?
2) What can I do to see if I can get these CRTs to work? The SF CRT doesn't come on at all, the ICade is blurry and dim.
3) The cabinets are chipped and the MDF is crumbly and swelling (high humidity here in Hawaii). Would I just be better off removing all the components and building a cabinet from scratch? What would you do?
I live on an outer island of Hawaii, so my choices for replacement monitors are very limited -- basically what people are selling in garage sales, and whatever is for sale at Costco/Walmart/Target.


