You should be okay as the monitor connector coming off the harness in the game should be able to go onto the converter board. If it is not the right connector, replace it. There was a post here about monitor connectors if you want more information.

Yeah, I was just making sure it would work some way or another, didn't want to waste all that money. Thank you so much!

More monitor issues. I was looking to buy a converter that converters to VGA and RCA for like $36, and now I'm concerned I might not be able to make it work with my machine. I haven't bought it yet but I'd really like to do so, so I can make it for this weekend. There's very minimal documentation of the game on the internet, and the mis-translation never helps (Continental Circuit / Continental Circus, mine is the first but I would assume they are the same inside, almost), so I'm un-sure if I'd be able to hook it all together to the converter, as it mentions mostly JAMMA boards on the page for the converter.

I was looking at this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0KR05U3161&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-_-pla-_-Replacement+Parts-_-9SIA0KR05U3161) and it's quite cheap and that's what I need, but I'm un-sure if it would be compatible with my game, I've never done this before and I just want to hook something to it for testing. It's considered a unique pin-out. Here are the pin-outs: http://www.crazykong.com/pins/ContinentalCircus.pin.txt

The machine is two or so hours away until Friday afternoon, and the pictures I took previously turned out a bit blurry, but here they are, too:

Insides:

http://i.imgur.com/gnTETTe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/x8tAK05.jpg (The picture makes it look like it is attached to the board, it is not, and the black "wire-looking" thing behind it is a dark shadow)
http://i.imgur.com/uWhzSJl.jpg I think that's another empty clip on the bottom now that I look at it
http://i.imgur.com/4f1zMq5.jpg Took this for the hell of it, but another un-used clip, maybe? Also those yellow wires, they appear snipped from the picture but AFAIK they're not

I'd really just like to hook a small monitor to it for some testing, but even that is now seeming to prove difficult, hopefully this all could work out. I'd definitely like to get it shipped as early as possible (I'll ship it to that address) so I can use it once I get there, or on the next few days that I will be there.

[$360]

My buddy in India said it would cost him $1,000 for a PS4. Here they are going for $360 now.

Heh.

Is there a light switch in the garage?  You might be able to add an outlet there and make it a 2 gang box with minimal effort.

There's two, as well as the breaker box, if that's significant, but I don't want to touch around that. The two switches both control a light at the top of the garage, which has an adapter in it which the garage opener plugs into, third prong probably / apparently broken off on purpose. Obviously I did not want to plug anything straight into that thing. The garage opener is half-broken now, I would assume it's the unit itself and not the power setup, it's been there much longer than I have been around (not too too long ), and my grandfather was a very very smart man so I assume it's just burnt out from time, so hopefully nothing went wrong along the lines in the house, but both switches do their purpose perfectly, it does toggle the lights on the opener and the button, etc.. So that would probably just be the garage opener that has gone bad. Is that fairly easy to pull off? Sounds like a good project, then, I think I could at least get away with that with some help. They're on the other side of the garage though, it's a one car garage if that (), so I could hopefully probably run some pipe (mind blank on what it's called) across the roof or the floor area and down / up the wall or something so I don't have to run the cord across the room and by the door way. I wonder if I could just run some wire out from the light socket (behind it, of course) through the pipe and down the wall, probably the easiest to do as it's in the middle of the roof. It'd also be controlled by the switch then which I suppose is a plus, while still keeping the light socket functional for the half-working garage opener.

[I'm talking about how you have everything plugged in, a ton of power strips, house gifted with a nice amount of outlets, etc.? I don't really need help with anything as I only have one machine, but I thought about this the other day and I figured it would be neat to post up. Pictures welcome!]

I'm talking about how you have everything plugged in, a ton of power strips, house gifted with a nice amount of outlets, etc.? I don't really need help with anything as I only have one machine, but I thought about this the other day and I figured it would be neat to post up. Pictures welcome!

I found a four-plug metal box front with the outlets in it down in the basement of my grandmother's house, I'll probably wire that up to a nice long black wire with a plug (3-prong, of course) on the other end so I can get power into the garage, no outlets AFAIK, unfortunately, and there's no way I'd attempt (or be allowed to, heh) tapping into the walls to make an official outlet. Maybe I'll mount the box on the wall and run the cord neatly hung against the wall. I'd buy new plugs for the box but these seem to be in good condition and they're a little older, I don't know, I'm really picky about that sort of thing and I think I'd feel weird plugging such an old machine into some brand new outlets, too new! They are nice dark brown ones as well, style sort of reminiscent of where I played arcade games, old campgrounds, etc., I don't know I'm weird about electrical plugs (I found them neat as a kid), but I guess it's not a bad thing unless I burn the house down, LOL. I'd assume the newer outlets have less plastic or something as they just feel a bit weaker, but mainly it's just a style choice. Also having four leaves me some room for more machines down the road. ;) (Box I'm talking about, something similar to: http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-54334793715728_2268_1192749454) Probably seems silly how much I care about this, , I've just always had a thing for them, maybe I'll be some master electrician someday, who knows.  

What's your setup look like? Whether you have a small or big list of games, feel free to post! I'm curious myself as to how people with many games hook them all up, must be gifted with outlets.

Hey guys! I'm from Pennsylvania and I frequently travel to New Jersey where I care for a family member and visit other family over there. I'm 16 and I have been dreaming about arcade / pinball machines for years now, the hobby recently sparked up again and I started searching through Craigslist and I pretty much struck a miracle, at least in my eyes. I picked up a Taito Continential Circuit (also mis-translated as "Circus", in some cases) upright machine without a monitor for $40. No monitor, but the glass is there and in good condition, along with the beautiful glass up on top. Nearly perfect sideart, cabinet could use some work but other than it's in pretty good condition, there's a piece of wood on the bottom which seems to have been a repair done as force around the area where the gas pedal is ended up cracking it a bit, since it sticks out and possible it was un-even. Very solid cabinet. He said it should be about a 19" screen, I'm figuring I'll look around Craigslist or something of the sort for a CRT television in here. Bringing it in to a repair shop would probably be pricey so let's hope I don't get shocked by the lovely CRT goodness. I'll definitely ask for some help around here, particularly now. Here's what the insides look like, if you have any idea where I should start once I get the monitor (besides discharging), let me know. I'm hoping the hook-ups for the monitor are still in there as it seems like it should be, didn't bother asking whatever happened to the original (or recent) monitor but I assume it was used for another machine or something of that sort, maybe it was just junked and never bothered to be replaced.

Videos (and other things) of these machines are like impossible to find on the internet, I just searched extremely hard and I managed to find two, one of just gameplay on the screen from a tripod, or something, maybe it was just a television, I'm not sure. This is under both names, as well, rough to find.

Here's a video and some pictures, the part where I explained the shirt and rag on it to cover it probably seemed kind of comical, but I ended up covering it with a large table cloth before I left back home to PA for the weekdays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMuavlr85A

Insides:

http://i.imgur.com/gnTETTe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/x8tAK05.jpg (The picture makes it look like it is attached to the board, it is not, and the black "wire-looking" thing behind it is a dark shadow)
http://i.imgur.com/uWhzSJl.jpg I think that's another empty clip on the bottom now that I look at it
http://i.imgur.com/4f1zMq5.jpg Took this for the hell of it, but another un-used clip, maybe? Also those yellow wires, they appear snipped from the picture but AFAIK they're not.

I'll see the machine again on Friday afternoon.