WTB: Galaga 88 PCB

[Tyrem]

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Hello everybody!

First I´d like to introduce myself. My name is Stefan, 41 years old.... male!
I run a videogamestore in my hometown Trier/Germany for 13 years now and I am a big fan of this board although I kept silent for most of the months and years here.

I was hoping to find a Galaga 88 Jamma-Board... but as I found out lately those little babies are hard to get.
That´s why I came here today. Maybe someone here has an idea how to get one.

I´d be very thankful for any help i can get.

Greetings from Trier
Stefan

[Love]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140809941343&item=140809941343#ht_600wt_1396

price is not THAT off 

[Tyrem]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140809941343&item=140809941343#ht_600wt_1396

price is not THAT off 

yeah, true. saw that one last night, too. was hoping to get one in europe though... but if the price is okay I´d also buy it from him.
cheers mate!

[Love]

well i dont think its okay

but its not tooo much too much either

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=239754&highlight=galaga+88+pcb

[Tyrem]

well i dont think its okay

but its not tooo much too much either

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=239754&highlight=galaga+88+pcb

I just bought it for 229 euro, shipping to germany included. i guess that is a fair deal.
i am a happy bunny now! thank you again. great board, great people. can´t wait to play that game again.
back in the golden times we had one machine in my fav pub. completet it there several times.

[Muerto]

Great you got the game, any chance you will show a photo or 2 of your setup? - and welcome here BTW!

Cheers
Michael Trier (yep, thats my name  )

[Tyrem]

Great you got the game, any chance you will show a photo or 2 of your setup? - and welcome here BTW!

Cheers
Michael Trier (yep, thats my name  )

of course I will, Michael. I have to put it in my sitdown cab. it used to run a 60in1 till now... and that leads me to aproblem I did not think about so far... the 60in1 has vga and audio-out. the galaga 88 does not have those features. i guess i will take the sound from the jamma harness... but what about the vga output? a total newbie-question for sure... but is there an easy solution to my problem?

and by the way... what a coinsidence with your last name.

[Love]

I have a Galaga 88 cab offered to me in the US if anyone is interested 

[TimePilot]

Hello Tyrem, welcome on DLF!

I have restore my original cab, the thread on dlf you can find here:
http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=3335.0

and, i have a second original pcb, but there its not working atm. i have buy it for 160 EUR from the infamous austrian seller from vienna in working order, but arrived by me shows that nothing worked!
if you are interested you can have it "as is" for 99 EUR +sh, otherwise i have a nice guy in germany they will repair it, if possible. so then it is for spare.

[TimePilot]

Do you have seen this?
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=221071512057&nma=true&rt=nc&si=dTmigMVv2imAEEkESGpkm44eV0o%253D&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

[Tyrem]

I found my board yesterday. Not as cheap as the 199-one... but just about 200 with shipping from the states included.

big thanks to everybody who wants to help me. my problem now ist how to connect ist to vga. anybody with a very simple solution for an absolute beginner?

[Tyrem]

Hello Tyrem, welcome on DLF!

I have restore my original cab, the thread on dlf you can find here:
http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=3335.0

heyho... i can assure you... I SAW YOUR POST.
i think it was one of the reasons to get me a galaga 88 pcb. somehow this is my game. it also was one of my first games for the pc engine. i still own it.

[Tyrem]

I have a Galaga 88 cab offered to me in the US if anyone is interested 

uhhhhh.... how much would that be?
any chance to get an original moon patrol, donkey kong, track & field?

those are the machines i would kill for.

[ckong]

....  my problem now ist how to connect ist to vga. anybody with a very simple solution for an absolute beginner?

first, welcome here.

second, there is a simle answer, you can´t  

Galaga´88 is a 15K lowres game, it doesn´t output VGA signals.

The only solution to use it on a VGA monitor is to hook up additional devices, like a cga2vga scaler and a sync splitter. And of course a SLG3000 for the scanlines. You can check out Bencao74´s website for more info about that.

But please don´t use thta equioment, you don´t really want to use a VGA monitor. The game is intended to use with a 15K monitor, so why not hook up one of those?

But to be honest, I am a bit amazed that you thought that you could hook up a Galaga ´88 PCB directly to a VGA monitor! Obviously you didn´t do a lot of research on forehand.

By the way, the price of a Galaga ´88 board has increased extremely over the last few years, I sold mine little than two year ago for € 120!!! And still made a little profit!!!   I know now that I should have kept it.

[Love]

I have a Galaga 88 cab offered to me in the US if anyone is interested 

uhhhhh.... how much would that be?
any chance to get an original moon patrol, donkey kong, track & field?

those are the machines i would kill for.

I just get about 50 games together for a container from the US to EU later this year. So if you want to join in here is the thread:

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=3726.0

The Galaga 88 that was offered to me would be about $450 shipped to the warehouse in the US. Add another $150-200 for shipping to Bremerhaven, Germany and €50 fee for me and that should be about what it would cost you. The other games you mentioned are possible to get there too.