these *$%#@&* games!!!

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it seems everytime you get one fixed another one goes down!! just got the super pac up and now the BEAST in my living room (l.a. machine guns) starts acting up. anyone know anything about projection monitors? im getting lots of red lines in it.
 
Hah - you can't really use old arcade gear as if it is a giant game console, firstly most of it is ten times older than it was ever intended to be, and secondly the games were designed to live bolted inside cabinets and be very rarely handled. Combine the age with the constant plugging/unplugging and handling and you end up with fairly unreliable hardware.

All I know about RP monitors is they are insanely expensive to repair (think thousand$ as opposed to hundred$), if it really is a monitor issue and not a PCB fault, and if it is not a simple issues you can resolve yourself eg loose connection, bad power supply, then it is almost certainly landfill.
 
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it seems everytime you get one fixed another one goes down!! just got the super pac up and now the BEAST in my living room (l.a. machine guns) starts acting up. anyone know anything about projection monitors? im getting lots of red lines in it.

Welcome to collecting :D

You should expect about a 25% down rate at any given time. I had 4 games go out all at once on me. They might not be 100% down, but you'll always be fixing something :)....

Now I'm off to go fix my Marble Madness Marquee light....
 
All, FWIW. It doesnt get any better with new games. Thats what these things do. New or old, they break all the time.

I call it job security!

To the OP. Those projection monitors in the Sega games can be a real drag to fix. Its really just a TV so you could take it to a TV shop but it has to be driven with a slightly off medium res signal to show a picture.
 
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