Meph
Well-known member
I stopped by a local operator today looking for an old Midway cabinet for a Mortal Kombat machine. He had a couple old MK cabinets that had been painted over and converted to Golden Tee machines. He pulled one out for me and plugged it in to test the monitor. It has a WG 25" in it and it works but is fuzzy. He played with it for a couple mins and said it just needed a cap kit. I can take it all for $100 or he can do the cap kit and I take it for $200.
Looking at prices for cap kits it looks like its definitely worth it for me to take the cab as-is and just do the cap kit myself. This will be my first arcade project but I have worked with electronics all my life. My last couple projects were jukeboxes so i'm assuming that this should be no problem. I just have a couple questions.
How hard is a cap kit to do? I have plenty of soldering experience. I have already looked up discharging the monitor so the rest looks pretty easy from what I can tell.
Also, how does a Jamma cabinet work? Can I basically plug any Jamma board in? Could I literally have a MK1, MK2, SF-Turbo all in the cabinet and just change the harness to change the game?
Forgive my ignorance, this will be my first experience with this.
Looking at prices for cap kits it looks like its definitely worth it for me to take the cab as-is and just do the cap kit myself. This will be my first arcade project but I have worked with electronics all my life. My last couple projects were jukeboxes so i'm assuming that this should be no problem. I just have a couple questions.
How hard is a cap kit to do? I have plenty of soldering experience. I have already looked up discharging the monitor so the rest looks pretty easy from what I can tell.
Also, how does a Jamma cabinet work? Can I basically plug any Jamma board in? Could I literally have a MK1, MK2, SF-Turbo all in the cabinet and just change the harness to change the game?
Forgive my ignorance, this will be my first experience with this.

