Ian told me rule of thumb is don't turn them on if it's below freezing temperature, seems like a good temperature point but depending on how cold your garage gets I wouldn't turn them on a little higher than that, not really a comfortable gaming experience anyways. ;)

Just a note (probably not what you want to hear), maybe you should try to see if you could find a real cocktail with a Ms. Pac in it, it's a much more satisfying feeling and you already have the upright, and from a price point it seems much cheaper to go that route and install a PCB switcher or even MAME it (gasp, , please find a broken one then without a monitor or with a dead monitor and sell the boards, lowers the overall money spent even more) than to buy brand new stuff. No way would I pay $400 just for that particle board or whatever it is, seems like a major waste to me even though it's a little easier.

"Oh there's my beer!" Lol.

So happy to see you didn't paint over that Sunset Riders control panel for the MAME cabinet, I guess that makes it a litttttttllleeee better. ;) Nice basement and Cruis'n!

Hi there, what do you mean by power on the game to see the picture? The monitor and game boards both should be on at the same time and if your monitor is on when you plug it in and let's say when you hit a switch the board comes on, it's not necessarily supposed to be that way, I'm a bit confused about that statement. Have you checked voltages on the power supply and on the board as well?

Hi Otaku, thanks so much for your response! Sorry for any confusion. Both the the game and the monitor would come on at the same time. But I had to turn it off and on again a few times just to finally get the game to boot up with a picture and sound. Once it was working, it played great. Now everytime I turn it on the game has no sound and just this white screen.

I'm going to pick up a multimeter today, but I just realized I have no keys to the back of the cabinet. I need to drill that out and replace it with another cam lock. Man I hope my board isn't toast! Thanks again!

You've very welcome, Coffee! Definitely sounds like a board issue but hopefully it's a smaller issue and something very simple and the board isn't "toast", hehe, might just be a connection issue to the board or somewhere on the board!

Otaku

Hi there, what do you mean by power on the game to see the picture? The monitor and game boards both should be on at the same time and if your monitor is on when you plug it in and let's say when you hit a switch the board comes on, it's not necessarily supposed to be that way, I'm a bit confused about that statement. Have you checked voltages on the power supply and on the board as well?

Turned out beautiful, John!

Very excited for the Quantum.

that looked like a pain in the butt to restore.

Looks pretty damn good now though LOL

You'd need a signal converter board to convert the signal up while converting it to VGA and then you'd need a switcher between the two VGA cables to the monitor and probably some sort of switcher for the controls (which will have to go to the board and to the PC, somehow) unless you don't mind some major stuff happening on the other thing while you're playing the other counterpart. Seems very difficult to do along with being a waste of money and time, I'd just do one or the other, or just MAME the Neo-Geo stuff, too.

All the buttons I've been finding are those high tech ones used through software for use with MAME. Anybody know where to get some good ones with a single color for an actual dedicated machine? Preferably concave, preferably leaf switch. Otherwise I'll just use them for the start buttons.

Thanks!

It's possible just like in MAME, you just have to bind the button in the software to what the coin input for each side is. (There's probably even seperate ones for each coin slot, up to 3, although usually they serve the same exact purpose)

Again, just a general question because I'm interested and I think it'd be a nice topic to discuss.

What do you set your dips to, easy, tournament, factory, extremely difficult? I know John likes to set his to the tournament settings from the web usually when he does, I put my machine on super easy yesterday just for the hell of it, I'll probably make it a little more difficult eventually, even more so if I start bringing it to expos like I'd like to, if I don't convert it. What do set your games to?

How much would it be just for a new set?

That seems really unnecessary, you're not gonna kill the board by having a chip out if that is what you're worried about and it's likely only one chip has gone bad. Just make sure the game is off and that the chip is fully removed from the board (obviously) and you could probably do it with your eyes closed. (Figure of speech)

"Im from Australia and is palletised and ready for shipping"

Hmph.

It's so beautiful, though, , they're so nice and clean.

Just a notice for this thread, solved this myself and discussed a lot of it in the chatbox. Got rid of all the dust (well, most, obviously ) which was a good enough reason to spend the time on it for me, but it ended up being that a screw was in the back part of the monitor which I guess was shorting some things out and giving some weird results, and it fixed itself and made it happen again when the screw moved. Screw safely and slowly extracted, and now all is well again! Free fixes are the best, haha.

Welp, I guess I'm having bad luck. Yesterday I plugged the game in for the first time in about a week, looking to play a game with a family member and was presented with this green screen with some lines across it, I tried un-plugging it and such a few times to no avail. Eventually I left it plugged in for a while while I worked on the other machine, and I watched it as it changed back to normal in a split second, no wacky transition or anything. I unplugged it and plugged it back in later on and it showed normally, it was also warmed up as I could see the little test sequence at the beginning, I usually can't see it after it is unplugged for some time and I figured that is normal, and it usually just warms up and displays the game as it should. Same thing goes with this, except with this weird screen over the game. I can hear the game as usual and you can see the game feintly in the background but it's highly unplayable. The only thing I did was look for the latches with my hands, however after I got it open I checked all the connections I might have hit and I figured those would be more towards the back anyways.

It gets a little cold in the garage however I don't think it's any colder than usual.

Konami Rush' N Attack in a Williams Joust cabinet

The screen pictures: http://imgur.com/a/AhyNL