Midway 12 in 1 Home "Arcade" Machine thread- Upgrading them?
First, lets get this out of the way:
Yes, it's not a real "arcade" machine.
Yes, it's cheap and many wouldn't be caught with one.
Now that we have that out of the way, lets see if anyone has info on these things that can help me and others.
I'm talking about the small upright Midway 12-in-1 arcade machines that came in a box and you assemble at home. They went on clearance for a hundred or two a few years back and the company, Big Electronic Games went out of business.
I got one for next to nothing, and after putting it on a wooden box I made out of scrap wood, the height of the machine is the same as my other arcades. Play is fine, the emulation was done well, and it plays Robotron fine.
The joysticks work fine, and the buttons are the same ones I've seen on Zaxxon cocktails, so it doesn't bother me at all.
The one thing I want to do is upgrade the monitor from a 12 inch TV to a larger one. The problem is that the 'black box' uses some weird signal that can't be registered by most TVs. Connection is by way of a standard 3 prong component cable.
I've done the Google-Fu but it seems that no one knows why some work and some don't.
Does anyone have any information about how they upgraded theirs, the make and model of the TV used, etc? How many TVs did you have to go thru to find a working one?
I've heard of some tvs displaying 'unusable signal' or a yellow screen when hooked up to these. I've tried 2 tube and 1 lcd tv, no luck.
Since old tube TVs cost practically nothing, it would be cheaper for me to just upgrade the tv and call it done vs making a mame box in an old arcade cabinet.
Please post constructive comments, I am trying to get some help here....
First, lets get this out of the way:
Yes, it's not a real "arcade" machine.
Yes, it's cheap and many wouldn't be caught with one.
Now that we have that out of the way, lets see if anyone has info on these things that can help me and others.
I'm talking about the small upright Midway 12-in-1 arcade machines that came in a box and you assemble at home. They went on clearance for a hundred or two a few years back and the company, Big Electronic Games went out of business.
I got one for next to nothing, and after putting it on a wooden box I made out of scrap wood, the height of the machine is the same as my other arcades. Play is fine, the emulation was done well, and it plays Robotron fine.
The joysticks work fine, and the buttons are the same ones I've seen on Zaxxon cocktails, so it doesn't bother me at all.
The one thing I want to do is upgrade the monitor from a 12 inch TV to a larger one. The problem is that the 'black box' uses some weird signal that can't be registered by most TVs. Connection is by way of a standard 3 prong component cable.
I've done the Google-Fu but it seems that no one knows why some work and some don't.
Does anyone have any information about how they upgraded theirs, the make and model of the TV used, etc? How many TVs did you have to go thru to find a working one?
I've heard of some tvs displaying 'unusable signal' or a yellow screen when hooked up to these. I've tried 2 tube and 1 lcd tv, no luck.
Since old tube TVs cost practically nothing, it would be cheaper for me to just upgrade the tv and call it done vs making a mame box in an old arcade cabinet.
Please post constructive comments, I am trying to get some help here....




