Well, They Burnt Up The Monitor In This Neo Geo Arcade Machine....

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool arcade game repair video for you this evening so a guy brought by six arcade games for us to fix last week and I fixed two of them already one of was an arcanoid one was a Galaga so we've got a Miss Pac-Man a Neo Geo a blitz and an NBA Jam left uh but in this video we're going to do hopefully the Neo Geo I haven't plugged them in yet but I already know exactly what's wrong with them the guy gave me very detailed uh he gave me a very detailed list of what was wrong with all of them they're all broke I actually tried to get a list from them just to make Ronnie feel better and he didn't know he had no idea what was wrong with him one of them he told me the sound was messed up yeah well I couldn't get the sound messed up on it so I don't I think he was just making up stuff I kind of put him on the spot so he was just throwing out random stuff it seemed like but anyway I'm going to get the Neo Geo out and I'm hoping it doesn't have a weird monitor or anything in there because I'm sure the monitor's probably messed up I'm hoping it's got a 7,000 in there there we do not want a hanx polo any kind of hanx we do not want we don't really want a ctech or anything either a neotech we might be able to fix and a k7000 we can probably fix so let's cross our fingers all right I got it out of there I guess I should say that I'm this guy just wants quick and dirty repairs pretty much he don't want to spend much money he's putting them in some kind of youth group for his church type thing so he's not concerned about Cosmetics cuz he he has a feeling the kids are going to beat him up and mess him up anyway so he doesn't want me to really do any Cosmetics he just wants to play them this is a dedicated two slot Neo Geo I have no idea what's going on with it I haven't plugged it in yet it appears to be in decent shape though I went ahead and took the back doors off just now and it has a 7000a monitor which I don't necessarily like but um they're okay as long as the fly back's not bad because you can't get the fly back fairly clean inside let's see if he said anything about the Neo Geo he said the Neo Geo was dead that's why I don't ask anybody what's wrong with any of them I thought I would that time because he brought by six machines and I kind of wanted to get an idea of what was going on with each one but he didn't give me any idea it just says it just says they're broke I guess now I know how Ronnie feels when I leave him a note but you know if they knew what was wrong with it they wouldn't be bringing it here they'd fix it themselves they're not going to tell me yeah the the diode's bad on the on the circuit board and the sound section yada yada yada they're not going to say that but anyway enough talking I guess I'd better plug it in and see what's wrong with it all right here we go going to do it live so we can all see what's wrong with it together if I can get this in there sounds like the monitor came on kind of [Music] well sounds like the game board's working see how we got credits and you can hear it [Music] so basically it it ended up being Flatline there at the end but it was trying to pop in so we've either got some bad caps on the monitor a broken pot on the monitor or the vertical IC chip is bad on the monitor or all of the above so this monitor has never been out of this cabinet I don't think because the cabinet actually still had the security screws and even after I took those out the door was stuck I really had to pry on it to get it out of there and you can kind of tell the way it's still zip tied and allog together nobody's ever worked on this monitor so that's going to be our first step we're going to unscrew that monitor chassis cut the little zip ties get it all out of there and change the Caps all right I got the monitor out monitor chassis out anyway so you guys know how I do it I cap right through the dirt I said that on one of my other videos and people just thought it was hilarious they think I need to get a t-shirt I Capa through the dirt that's magic dirt if you take that dirt off it's going to stop working now I realize it's already broke but that dirt is special dirt it's vintage dirt can't get dirt like that anywhere you know so I'm going to take these caps out one by one they're all different sizes and I've got all these other ones in here take them out out one by one and change each of them I'm going to Reflow a couple problem areas here on the board and then uh we'll put it back in see what happens all right I got all my caps changed I refl a bunch of stuff over here ref flat a few things here I noticed this cap here was loose this leg was just hanging I don't know if that's going has anything to do with my issue but guess I'll find out I'm going to put it back in the game and try it out and if it's still flatlined I may take it back out and I'm going have to change this vertical IC right here but I'm hoping it's going to work well it's still broke so I'm going to take it back out probably change that vertical IC and look at some more other things all right I got it back in there that seems to have fixed it to me it's always the vertical IC I'm not very good at fixing this stuff but I've just got a good memory it's always the vertical IC but um looks like the contrast and stuff's all messed up and the size that's because when the monitor goes out everybody always starts turning all the knobs which I don't blame them if it's broke you might as well start turning stuff so we just got to get it adjusted clean it up a little bit and uh we're going to test the buttons light up Top's [Music] working guess I'm just going to try it out play it and that's going to be that that scared you didn't you with the jumping but that's actually just part of the track mode so we got to get it a little taller or too wide turn down to contrast yada yada yada we'll get it dialed in and then we'll add some credits on it we'll try it all out again this guy doesn't want to spend too much money he just wanted me to get him working and it's working we'll try out all the buttons well I got the monitor adjusted pretty good and I was trying to get into the test mode to check all the buttons but I think most of the buttons the switches are bad see how corroded they are so I can't Advance the screen like I'm supposed to be able to and this joystick is hardly working I got into the game earlier and they pulled the old put a washer on it trick to push it down further so it activates the switch but it's just worn slap out so I'm just going to go ahead and change both the joysticks and all of the Cherry switch connectors [Music] for [Music] you [Music] oh [Music] r [Music] [Music] I [Music] [Music] here n [Music] n [Music] n [Music] he he [Music] oh [Music] a e [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] a [Music] w [Music] he [Music] a a [Music] n [Music] nah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right I got all my cherry switches changed both my joysticks swapped and I got it into the test menu see how that one's up up down left right and then a b c d one player then you do the same thing on the two player do the start buttons and when I hit this one it's going to advance screen it's got a bunch of different tests you can do and this is for adjusting the monitor but as you can see it's adjusted pretty well if white is white then everything else is good so I'm going to take it out a test and then we'll try game I don't know if you know if you've uh if you're not familiar with Neo Geo it's pretty cool because it just takes a cartridge this one will hold two so you can just if once you get tired of that game you can just take that cartridge out and buy another one and just pop it right back in and now you got a whole another game and I think they made probably 100 or more different cartridges and then you just swap out your little Marquee up top and you got a totally different game and if you got time you need to Google the Neo Geo song I don't think I'm going to add it into this video but just search Neo Geo song Neo Geo Neo Geo it's pretty catchy also test all your displays those are just for the credit but I got it on free play so we're not even going to need those but anyway I'm going to get out of test and then we'll we'll try a game yes so this one's got Wind Jammers and Sonic Wings 3 it's going to turn it down a little bit Wind Jammers and Sonic Wings 3 I'm going to play Sonic Wings 3 [Music] we already know it works though because we tested in in the test all the [Music] buttons basically just shoot everything apparently [Music] get the money got to get the money [Music] [Music] [Music] go no [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well there you have it you get the idea then once you run out of time there you could switch and play the other game if you wanted apparently I did pretty [Music] good and there's Wind Jammers so people like these for their houses usually because you can easily swap the games but anyway that's going to do it for this one I think the GU will be happier with that everything seems to work real good [Music] [Applause] Neo Geo next time we'll do the Miss Pac-Man or or the NBA Jam or the blitz got three three down three to go on this little repair deal I got going on here but uh thanks everybody for watching and we'll see you on the next one