Star Wars Arcade Trilogy

Numminz

New member
Joined
May 31, 2009
Messages
31
Reaction score
0
Location
Alaska
I have the chance to purchase a Star Wars Arcade Trilogy setup with force feedback and the full cockpit sit down cabinet. The monitor is nonfunctional. Everything else plays fine...sound works great, force feedback works great. Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be wrong with the monitor? What most commonly goes wrong with this setup? How costly a repair might be? I have a friend who is handy with electronics...and the price is just right for the cabinet even with a broken monitor. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. This is the Trilogy 50" projection monitor....not the older games. Do they have bulbs? Might it be that simple?
 
There's a lot that can go wrong with those monitors, and unless you're experienced at repairing them, they're not usually very easy or cheap to repair/replace. There's no "bulb" in them... they're CRT rear projection monitors. Of course it's possible that it's an easy fix (broken wire or something stupid like that), but most of the time it's difficult to track down, lots of times because of the lack of technical documentation on the monitors. Of course if it's REALLY cheap, you can try to fix it, and worst case, part it out and make some money.

BTW, here's the manual if you wanted to browse it: http://www.sauservice.com/manuals/STW_html/stwmain.html .

DogP
 
I have the chance to purchase a Star Wars Arcade Trilogy setup with force feedback and the full cockpit sit down cabinet. The monitor is nonfunctional. Everything else plays fine...sound works great, force feedback works great. Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be wrong with the monitor? What most commonly goes wrong with this setup? How costly a repair might be? I have a friend who is handy with electronics...and the price is just right for the cabinet even with a broken monitor. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. This is the Trilogy 50" projection monitor....not the older games. Do they have bulbs? Might it be that simple?

Just buy a used 50" or smaller tv and be done with it...its cheaper to go this rout!Cause thats all it is a tv in a box.
How much for the game?
 
The Sega games actually use medium resolution monitors, not TVs. And since the output of the game is Medium resolution video, it's not compatible with a regular TV. You may be able to use a converter, but IIRC there's only one that'd do medium res to TV, and a lot of people seem to have problems with them.

DogP
 
He's asking $650...but he's will to take less. I'm thinking of maybe being able to get it for $300 or so. I just can't decide if the possible monitor repair will run more then its worth.
 
They use a regular 50" projection tv with a signal converter. Good news is that a regular tv tech could probably fix the TV. Happ sells lcd retrofit kits for the projection games I think. A bit pricey but it is an option. The newer games look pretty good on an lcd also.

$650 is way too much. $300 non-working is a bit high to me but probably worth it.
 
The Sega games don't use TVs... they're medium res 50" monitors, which makes repair difficult, since documentation is very limited. I agree... $650 is way too high, and IMO $300 is more than I'd pay, though if you really like the game it might be worth it. At an auction, it'd probably sell for $25-$50 because it's so big, and broken.

DogP
 
Star War Trilogy repair

I still can't make up my mind on this. I think I could pick it up for a reasonable price...I just have no clue what the maximum repair by a TV guy could run. Argh!
 
Star Wars Trilogy

I would wait for a better one. i have one and I paid 400 with it fully working. I had to ordered a remote for it and it was 70 bucks so I know it ain't cheap to fix
 
I've seen more than a few sega games in local arcades that had broken pro-jo monitors and they have simply mounted lcd tv's in their place.....
 
Can anyone confirm the LCD option?

I happen to have an old 50" projection TV that if possible I'd like to just swap it out and put that up there in place of the Sega monitor. Any way to do this?
 
You can't do that without using a converter to convert from medium resolution to some sort of TV signal (Composite, S-Video, component, etc). And even then, it probably won't look great.

DogP
 
$650 is way too high. You will spend $300+ TO HAVE THE MONITOR PROFESSIONALLY FIXED. When my trilogy monitor krapped out i found a good used monitor form another sega game and swapped everything out( same model same maker)

there were 3 or 4 different manufacturers for those monitors. All are plug and play as a complete unit, but none of the parts will interchange internally if that makes sense.. (unless you have two monitors of the same brand/model)

Id say its worth $150-225 in its current condition.
 
Back
Top Bottom