Yes but just tired of looking at it not working, unless I can get a cheap working board set from some one, I just think the wife would have more fun with it having frogger and galaga and such and lets face it multi games sale better to non collectors
Hey its your cabinet, do what you want with it. However if the board is the only thing wrong with it, they are fairly cheap and floating around all over this forum.
Let me help you.
The picture you saw Frizz post was from MY Space Invaders. I was in the same boat, I liked the cabinet, I liked the arts, I liked the nostalgia, however the game was dumped on me because my buddy didn't want to deal with it and it was free. Everything in mine worked but it had no monitor going. My wife also liked to play many of the classics, not just SID. It sat for months while I waited for a monitor to show up. I basically got sick of seeing it sit around like a dead weight in my "every-square-foot-counts-arcade" garage.
SO what did I do? I bought a 48-in-1 board and used a 19" CRT computer monitor and installed it after all the parts were gutted out. Cost me the same as if I were to get the monitor going.
Now I didn't just slap a LCD in there. I flipped the yoke after custom mounting the monitor. So, the Black Light effect would still work and look all badass. I'm a tinkerer. So although I built it to be able to play more games at home, I also did it just to see if it could be done. I did not have to drill a single hole into the cp and all the parts were salvaged and resold right here to fellow gamers. And yes, in the end I did end up selling it to a fellow gamer, and it sold for roughly 3 times as much as a working SID goes for in my area.
Now, these guys are right. Raping a game so close to fully working is a little sad, and they gave me quite a hazing for it, but in the end I was happy with how it turned out.
Feel free to preview what it could look like here to help you make your decision:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihMytykScU
I'm the local guinea pig 'round these parts.
