So I inherited a nice Jamma cabinet that has a Bomberman PCB in it. The cabinet will turn on and there is sound. If you flip the coin button it will register and you can hear the game trying to run, but the monitor simply does nothing. Monitors are my achilles heal with these things. I'm completely self taught on Arcades and to be blunt, the possibility of death by electricity is something that keeps me from messing with monitors too much. Everything else inside the cabinet looks like new...so I'm guessing the monitor is simply dead.

 I'm considering ordering up a multi-jamma board for it and putting in an old VGA computer monitor. It seems like the easiest way to go with this cabinet, but I have some questions. The only other machine I've built is a mame, and I simply put in a computer inside of an old Z cabinet and dropped in a full size CRT computer monitor. It's a total Frankensteins monster, but it does the job.

 I'm wondering if I order the right multi-jamma board with a VGA out....should it be as simply as removing the Arcade monitor, dropping in a Computer monitor and plugging in the board? Is there a different power requirement for anything? Do I need some kind of converter? I have had a 60 in 1 jamma board before that worked just fine in another Jamma cabinet...but the monitor was good on that one. So I'm stumbling a bit on swapping this one out and trying to get by with just putting in a computer monitor...I am willing to put up with having to plug in the monitor directly as a power source.

 Thanks in advance....I just have a pretty nice Jamma cabinet that I'm not trying to put too much money into. Unfortunately the button setup is only two sticks and two buttons per stick....so I was thinking another 60 in 1 in this guy with a computer monitor just to run the classics like Frogger, Pacman, etc....

 Hey everyone, I'm new to the message board and going to share a bit about myself. I live in Alaska and have been collecting Arcade games for about the last fifteen years. It can be pretty difficult to find them up here and if you do, they are often wanting several times the value of machines in the lower 48. I have a nice mix of games at this time, but I'm always looking for more at reasonable pricing and I do have a mame machine that never seems to be quite finished. My current dedicated cabs are Upright / Tron / Ms. Pacman / Neo Geo 2 slot / Rush 2049 sitdown / R-Type / Millipede. Hope everyone is doing well and look forward to being on this board.