We Repair And SAVE This Nintendo Cruis'n USA Arcade Machine! 

Thanks for the arcade machine repair videos. I have learned lots. In fact I wish I still had my Missile Command cadet cabinet, the midsize one with the wood grain finish. I have only seen 2 so far, the one I had and the one you fixed on this show. With the skills you have showed me I know I could of fixed it. Great work Dude.

So true. Bought a broken bottom of the ninth for fifty bucks, got it home, and all I need to do was turn brightness up and it works fine.

Hey Joe!! I've bought a few dog cabs and piss cabs. If they're really bad inside, Kiltz then paint can seal the odor or you have to replace each offensive panel. But, I usually part out a piss cab. Sad but true. Good work brother.

This was one of my favorite games I remember playing it at Hills dept store in Greensburg pa

I especially like your side-art fix, so cheap & effective !

Ha joe. Great work. Like your tale gate lift real handy. Thanks Bob.

You can remove the top on that Fluke meter, it is wireless communication between the screen and the meter. Then you can take the screen with you, and leave the meter connected, if you shall adjust something away from where you connections are.

would love to see a walk thru of all your inventory! love the vids so keep em coming!

Ladies and Gentlemen...another fine episode from American Pickers comes your way..i know its gonna be a good one coz i seens it 👍😉

Let me tell ya something brother, I’ve been in the fire service for a while. Little over 20 years to be exact. I know that smell you’re talking about bud. As soon as you mentioned it, brought back some memories of a recent house we went to, to carry someone to the hospital. Couldn’t see the floor due to all the trash and well other things in the floor. In the words of Skynyrd, Ooooo that smell, can’t you smell that smell. Surprised a bunch of water roaches (German cockroaches) didn’t come running out. Not sure if you all have those in the Carolinas.

Great work Joe. When it comes to arcade games,…you’re the man. Very entertaining, even for someone like me who doesn’t play arcade games. Thanks for posting.

Unrelated, I got curious and looked up "zero-crossing." That has to do with the time that AC current is neutral, neither positive nor negative. To detect it, it is just a full-wave rectifier, an optocoupler, and an inverter. In their case, the inverter is just a transistor and a pull-up resistor. Now the reason pinball machines need that is to know the ideal time to flash multiplexed lights and throw solenoids to make things last longer. As for the meter, well, that is the nice one that is detachable. That way, you can focus the camera on the detached portion no matter how the meter base gets moved around as you use it. And yes, I agree with your overall strategy here. Replace the things most likely to go soon, so recapping and the flyback if you have one. I found from another channel that you have to watch on changing the flyback, that you use the original part and not a cheap knockoff. Most people think "blooming" is in the CRT itself, and I guess it can be, but often, it is the flyback that is responsible. A guy on a retro channel played with an old Commodore monitor and an old Atari monitor. They used the identical motherboard in the chassis, just that the Commodore one was populated more for more connectors on the back. The Commodore monitor bloomed, but the Atari one didn't. He first tried swapping the board to rule out the CRT and the blooming moved with the board. Then he moved the flyback to the Commodore board and the blooming stopped. Then he changed the rather new aftermarket flyback on the one doing the blooming with another aftermarket flyback. It still bloomed, but not as much. So you have to watch where you get the flybacks. Some of it is just Chinese junk, and some is just good enough.

Man thats my childhood right there one of these sat in front of my small town walmart for years and I just realized you don't see that anymore times just suck anymore man what I wouldn't give to go back to the 90s early 2000s

Congrats on the pickup! Awesome liftgate! Thanks for sharing. :)

Joe you are the man. Thanks for saving . Sidenote I got a MACH 3 standup that needs some work. Going to be contacting you in the near future.

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

That lift gate’s a life saver.

Nice setup on the truck.

Crusin USA is a great game. Good job, guys.

The video's thumbnail reminded me of the Seinfeld Frogger episode and made me chuckle. Thanks!

I would take that thing to the car wash! LOL

I grew up in a filthy home and I prefer not to dwell on it. I do know dust can get away from anyone.

I would love something like this. It would be fun to own and play.

Awesome I just Did both mine I used Red T Molding

Hey Joe...they also told you that the display detaches, didn't they (whomever "they" is)? That way you could put the display where you can see it even if you can't put the whole meter there.

So sweet! One of my favourite N64 games!

Nice rescue Happy Halloween

Fluke makes good meters. I have some older ones that are just work horses and just keeps going as long as you don't go wild with it.

aside from being filthy, that Cruisin' USA in actually good shape. a simple arcade game flipper can get away with quick and dirty flips. get game functional, look semi decent list it, sell it get paid now it's the buyers problem when something goes wrong. preventative maintenance goes a long way

Looks like a fun game, and a great rescue. Just a note to anyone doing this. When pulling the chasis from a monitor, always check the HT is discharged. I am sure Joe did this off camera before yanking the chasis. This is pretty critical unless you want a nasty zap.

I played this game for ~45minutes before taking my drivers license road test. Passed. No regrets. I would love one of these for nostalgia. btw, do you ever get any Pachinko machines from Japan? I have actually always wanted to play, but there just isn't any in Canada. Wondering if more get imported in the States than up here. I'm talking about those fancy video ones and such too... like the ones you see in the Fast and the Furious movies in the large saloon type businesses lol. I think it would be interesting to try to make one, but... yea.

One of my favorites ❤ looks like it was in the worst place😢

The New Zealand Amazon link is apparently broke🙄

Voiceover from Shango066: "come to flavor country" (that's how shango describes years of smoking residue stink on old electronics.

27:32 oh no, you most definitely made the right decision. When you first fired that up, the mic picked up the high pitched whine of leaky caps. Recapping and installing a new flyback is most definitely the right decision.

I wish Midway would have continued to use that plastic access panel to the monitor for easier service and discharging.

Love the Cruisin USA. Guessing the black rolling bar across the screen is just from recording? Eight Ball Deluxe, played it a lot too.

Great Job Joe keep does video’s coming.I have learned allot from seeing your videos👍🏼

There are a lot of Juice for this item, one just needs patience in servicing the item, back into its tip top shape. it can be ENGINEERED to be at par with the time or Incorporated classics with Ltd.Tech.™, ®© Rough and Tough but thoroughly GREAT!

Overall, it was in very good shape! That's surprising with it's age. Side art cant be helped, but you knew the proper fix! 😂

"My brother Donnie made this/constructed this for me!" Is everybody related to Donnie in that shop?!?

I started using AT or ATX PC power supplies because they hold up longer are usually higher amp than switching power supplies and are easy to find.

Crusin as well as hydro thunder and megaman power battles are my favorite arcade games ive ever played wish i could own the cabinet or on console at least power battle just got a console port

Great work guys keep up the best work u guys do love the vid I enjoy u guys and learn alot from u guys

WTH o0 First place on the first try. I know it AINT Ron playing! :)

Nice job!! Always Brice to see skilled guys like you save these games

Enjoy the videos guys. Thanks much!

Great video and happy Sunday from California.

love joe vids, hella cool seeing a master at work 😎

Great repair video joe your truck is not in that bad condition compared to the game 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Fluke meters are the best.

Sounds like you needed a hazmat suit. Looks great now.

66 split window!

Great job on the repair. That thing was nasty. How do you even get that amount of dirt on the back like that? Put it out in a dust storm one day? :D

That looks a lot better after the cap kit and the new fly back

Hey Joe thanks for the cool videos. I am good with computer boards but new to vintage CRTs. Do you have to discharge electric from a crt gaming monitor like a crt tv before taking it apart to work on it. Keep up the good work.

Love this channel!!! Thanks mate!!

I was just about to say it before you said thats what a certain guys channel calls a Craigslist rebuild.

Nice. There's one fr sale near me, but it's $600. Not to mention the entire headache of trying to transport and set up the thing. And biggest of all, the missus in the house will run ME over if I brought it into the house at all.

cool!. my parents had 8 ball and 8 ball delux when I was a kid...memories..

Maybe for the smells you could put a ozone generator inside the cabinet and throw a tarp over it and let it rip overnight. I bought a nasty car and did that for 4 hours several nights with a cheap generator off the jungle site and a USB battery pack. Took a while, but eventually it killed 95% of the smell. Still a little dank on the first few hot days of summer though....

Yodelayheehoo

Joe. Great channel. How did you end up fixing the side art on the cabinet that was damaged? Just wondering the process? Thanks.

The damage and smell is from the dogs

I have been in homes when I was a service tech for a city in Texas that were so bad that I had to run out from the smell. I have seen people who had trash piled to the ceiling and pathways cleared through the filth. How can anyone live like that?

I always chose the Cop car.

I really love your videos

It's Broke, unlike the dogs at the last spot I have seen the same first person. Pits everywhere Think they had to demo the house

Matt, how can you tell if an arcade monitors is combined positive sync or combined negative sync? I haven't seen any videos lessons of you showing how to measure the combined sync signals

Don’t forget the double pump cheat on the gas pedal in tight turns and on straight a ways.

Never liked the plexi cover on the rear with 20 screws. Alwaysvan event to get to the chassis.

24:10 was this a few days later? If not I'm surprised you didn't get lit up by the high voltage.

Every time i click the link to buy the shirt its nowere to be found on the page , is it sold out ?

thats so funny when somebody cuts the cord off means you are about to open Pandora's Box.. but hey a bargain is a bargain no matter what the outcome maybe

How come your brother never shows himself loved your channel just curious though. 😊😊😊😊

Was that black paint on the foot rest ? i feel like truck bed liner in a can would last forever

Good job, thing looks good

5:50 quick an dirty 😂

You didn't discharge the tube?

Soap, water and a scrub brush and a microfiber. Easy clean.

Truth..dont try and fix on the spot. I got an IGT Double Diamonds Slot machine mint condition for 300$. Lady waid it wont take coins and she wanted it gone. Got it home... comparitor was loose. Locked it in place...works like new!!! Worth WAY more than 300$

The cut cord, I think, is a junk man thing. I'm only 10 minutes into the video and from what I've gathered, you bought this off of a junk man. My neighbor is a clean junk man. The surrounding area of his house has a bunch of random items like air conditioners, golf clubs, 8 track tapes... Anyways, I've seen him have appliances with the chord cut. The next time I see him outside, I'm going to ask him why they do it. Maybe because of the transformer. I really don't know about that stuff just speculating. I continue watching the video.

Hey Joe, do you know if any way to fix that speaker feedback when booting and during it’s game preview? I have a refurbished unit that does the Same thing even with new speakers and matching impedance.

:) I had to buy a toliet bowl flapper repair kit from Amazon.

17:45 Darwin Award attempt…

What’s with all the scratches? It looks like it was keyed.

???? The First few runs may have come without wheels but later runs of the Cabinet Did have wheels. I've seen that Cabinet Delivered brand new straight from Midway Arcade. Maybe it was "region" restricted or may have just been more popular option in some areas over others but that was an option when they were selling them back in the day. Crusin USA and it's later versions are just the most popular late 90's - present Arcade cabinets to present in America. Literally they released a new Crusin Cabinet just a few years ago a year or two before covid hit.

It will come on not sure if it will work or not

You never showed how to fix the side art scratches.

Yes sir

SAVE

Hi Joe, i havea cruisin USA game i have an issue when i turn on the game then after the screen glitches and reboots, would you know what causes this? i reset everything and no luck thanks

Lol That's what it's like when you do business with the neighborhood crackhead!!

His dog could have chewed the cord.

Better open it up and let the critters run out first

This is pure 100% neglect!

1:07 lol, and,,,, then for some reason you never heard from him again..

I prefer compressed air...ppssstt ppsssst ppssstt.. all done..

Poor guy will see this vid and feel sad you talking about him like this 😔

What is the wattage of the soldering iron you usually use in your repairs?