Midway 12 in 1 Home "Arcade" Machine thread- Upgrading them?

I ended up finding a old 15" LCD tv from goodwill that had the composite ports on the back and was also a VGA monitor. That one worked. I used it in the cabinet and it was much nicer than the 12 inch that it came with.
The cabinet itself must have about 100 screws holding it together. If you try to disassemble it, you will find them everywhere. You nearly have to completely disassemble it to get the blue TV out.

Of course, if you swap out the tv for a bigger screen, you have to make a custom bezel for the new size, which also means you have to remove that screwed in game card module that is attached to the old bezel, and then just toss it into the machine somewhere.

The power switch is actually a special power strip that has the on off switch on the side, and that is what you are turning on and off when you power up the machine. I had to dremel a bigger hole in the top of the power strip box cover so the LCD tv could plug into it too.

I kept it for a while longer, and ended up selling it to make room. It was an interesting project for a while there, though.
 
Can Mods move this thread over to technical support forum or do we have to close and recreate?

Yes, the cable *looks* like a standard old RCA "yellow/white/red" cable. However some of you found that it's actually a vga signal, so thanks for that. Your Google-Fu is better than my Google-Fu

As for "what TVs worked", the only one I have found was the original 12 inch blue tv that came with the thing, everything else failed.

I actually don't really mind the trash talk, I figured that this forum has a lot of really experienced people in it and "if anyone could figure it out, these guys could".

Thanks for posting that link about the RCA to VGA cable, I'm gonna give that a shot since it's fairly cheap. I will post results.
I forgot to mention, the RCA to VGA cable did not work. But finding that LCD that had both composite hookups and a VGA connector did work.
 
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