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  1. Welcome Mickey. I can't let a mention of Delaware slide by without posting this Wayne's World clip.
  2. Problem being that all new LCD/LED monitors with better viewing angles will also be 16:9, which is far worse than having an original 4:3 ratio monitor. My suggestion would be to ditch the Pandora's in favour of a GroovyMAME PC. It's super easy to screen flip the entire PC in Windows on a MAME PC. Likely not what the OP is after, as he's already got the Pandora's. But it's definitely an option that would work and allow the OP to keep using the 4:3 monitor.
  3. When you say a TV monitor, do you mean an entire TV, complete with the TV chassis with stuff like composite inputs on it? Or do you mean a TV tube that has been matched with a suitable arcade chassis? It's going to be difficult (but not impossible) to track down a 29 inch Nanao MS8 or MS9, which is what you want for an Astro City. While they are out there, most of us hoard them like dragons hoarding their gold, as they are irreplaceable these days, and it's nice to have spares. If you do find one, you'd likely be paying $500 minimum for it, possibly more, depending on the seller. If the TV tube in there fits the cab well and there isn't a huge bezel gap, it might be worth investigating a universal chassis from Jomac to match the existing TV tube. You will still need someone to install it, but getting a chassis for the existing tube is likely going to be a easier than tracking down an MS8/MS9.
  4. Paging @KJS He was always in the know about this stuff.
  5. Will never forget going to my Chinese friend's house when I was a kid. His dad used to go back to Hong Kong every year for work and when he came home, he would always bring the latest and greatest tech that we never saw in Aus. He had a disc copying system for his Super Nintendo that blew me away. Piles and piles of pirated games on 1.44 floppies. It was amazing for 12 year old me to see all of those games.
  6. I used high gloss white with a proper spray gun for my aero. Turned out really well.
  7. Wow! That is one hell of a yellowed playfield and plastics set!
  8. Yep @dee2eRmakes and sells them. They are excellent pieces of kit and 100% perfect for a 4-player cab running the major 4-player games. It won't have enough power to run later 3d 4-player games like NBA Hangtime, NFL Blitz, or Gauntlet Legends. However, it will handle pretty much all of the mid 90s Konami and Midway games. This is the site that sells them. https://arpicade.com/about/
  9. What he's saying is that based on your videos posted, it doesn't appear to be going into link mode. It appears to be the Model 2 emulator trying to load, and then crashing for some reason.
  10. If you don't manage to find one, I can highly recommend a 4P Raspberry JAMMA. I have an LAI TMNT cab with the 4P Raspberry JAMMA in it, as it's such a kick ass product for all the Konami and Midway 4-player games.
  11. Excellent! Always good to get an easy fix.
  12. Welcome to arcades. Remember, if that chassis hasn't been serviced recently, it's very old tech, filled with very old capacitors, resistors etc. Arcade chassis will die with little to no warning, it's pretty par for the course.
  13. Each to their own. I have discharged using a flat blade screw driver and an alligator clip more times than I can count and I've never once stabbed myself in the face with a screwdriver and never been zapped. Do some reading, watch some videos, and use your common sense. It's not difficult at all.
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