QA Podcast – Episode 21

This episode of the podcast was recorded on Saturday, January 15. For more information on our podcast, please visit our iTunes page at http://itunes.arcaderepairtips.com. All of our past episodes can be found there as well as a review section where you can leave us a comment on how we’re doing. On this episode, Tim and I answered your questions regarding…

• A Playchoice 10 with several different issues
• A X-Men (6-Player) with a bad monitor
• A Star Wars with a bad motherboard
• A Vigilante that’s playing blind
• A Neo Geo with no sound
• A NFL Blitz 2000 with some monitor issues
• A Frogger cocktail with horizontal collapse
• A Mortal Kombat II board with no picture
• A Killer Instinct with a white screen
• A Mario Bros. with red “smearing” on the monitor
• A Donkey Kong cocktail with a power issue
• A Pole Position with no sounds and nothing on the screen
• A Donkey Kong with a cracked tube neck
• A Ms. Pac Man 25th Anniversary cocktail that’s playing blind
• A Pac Man with a slight bend in the screen
• A Centipede cocktail with odd screen stretching
• A Galaga bootleg (Gallag) with strange color issues
• A Mortal Kombat II with game resetting issues
• A Donkey Kong 3 with screen width issues
• A Stargate with game resetting issues
• A Golden Tee 2005 Fore with a shrunk screen
• An Area 51 with gun calibration issues
• A Rampage with horizontal lines on the screen
• A Killer Instinct 2 with a monitor that goes off after 5-10 minutes
• A Popeye with horizontal green lines on the screen
• A Golden Tee 2005 Fore with just a dot in the middle of the screen
• A Popeye with sprite number issues
• A Space Invaders with monitor brightness issues
• A Metal Slug X with cabinet trouble
• A Gunblade NY DX missing a ground prong on the plug
• And some tips on opening your own arcade.

We also go over some listener progress updates and discuss our thoughts on Tron: Legacy. Please feel free to leave any comments, questions or suggestions below. As always, you can contact us when we are off the air by email at questions@arcaderepairtips.com or by calling our voicemail line at (972) 8AR-TIPS or (972) 827-8477. Enjoy!

Show Links:

• Monitor Tech Information from 8liners.com –
  https://web.archive.org/web/20080705201439/http://www.8liners.com/datatech/monitor.html
• G07 Notes page from TheRealBobRoberts.net –
  http://www.therealbobroberts.net/g07notes.html
• What’s My Monitor page from TheRealBobRoberts.net –
  http://www.therealbobroberts.net/monitor.html
• Sense Mod for AR2 Boards –
  http://www.stickycarpet.com/pinx/ar2mods.html
• American Amusement Auctions –
  http://www.americanamusementauctions.com/
• Gatorcade.com (Golden Tee Resource) – http://www.gatorcade.com/
• Flippers.com (John) – http://www.flippers.com/
• HobbyRoms Programming Services – http://www.hobbyroms.com/
• The Arcade Cup Monitor Repair (Chad) – http://www.arcadecup.com/
• Hawk-Eye Picture Tube Mfg. Inc. – http://www.hawkeyepicturetube.com/
• ArcadeMonitor.com (Michael) – http://www.arcademonitor.com/
• Texas Pinball Festival 2011 – http://www.texaspinball.com/

Special thanks goes to David Vaughan for composing all of the great chiptunes music that we use in our content and Nathan Knight for providing our excellent voiceovers. Please check out their websites for information on the services they provide.

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