I picked up a Terminator 2 cabinet last night for a great price. It has been 15 years since I bought my last arcade machine.
The arcade powers up, guns both calibrate fine, but I found a few issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated:
- Monitor is dark. It's pretty hard to see the bad guys vs the good guys. I tried adjusting both brightness and contrast but they seemed to only help a little. I noticed that it looks like the monitor was switched and there is an extra yellow wire (photo) from the repair. The monitor that was put in is a Philips W22X, but it appears to be using the same adjustment knob panel as the original monitor.
- Sound stops working. Some times the sound works, some times it doesn't. When it does work you can only get so far in the game and then the sound stops and plays a tone forever. I did the sound test when it was working and heard two tones followed by a single tone. I'm thinking this is three tones meaning that the U3 ROM is bad. When I play the sounds in the test mode the first few play fine then when I hit a certain one and the sound goes wack. Can I extract the ROM image from a Mame file? I have a nice chip burner and the mame file that appears to match my revision.
- Player 1 gun missile button doesn't work.
- Player 2 trigger is flakey. The gun doesn't move very smoothly.
Again thanks!
The arcade powers up, guns both calibrate fine, but I found a few issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated:
- Monitor is dark. It's pretty hard to see the bad guys vs the good guys. I tried adjusting both brightness and contrast but they seemed to only help a little. I noticed that it looks like the monitor was switched and there is an extra yellow wire (photo) from the repair. The monitor that was put in is a Philips W22X, but it appears to be using the same adjustment knob panel as the original monitor.
- Sound stops working. Some times the sound works, some times it doesn't. When it does work you can only get so far in the game and then the sound stops and plays a tone forever. I did the sound test when it was working and heard two tones followed by a single tone. I'm thinking this is three tones meaning that the U3 ROM is bad. When I play the sounds in the test mode the first few play fine then when I hit a certain one and the sound goes wack. Can I extract the ROM image from a Mame file? I have a nice chip burner and the mame file that appears to match my revision.
- Player 1 gun missile button doesn't work.
- Player 2 trigger is flakey. The gun doesn't move very smoothly.
Again thanks!

