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So you have a Namco crisis zone deluxe with the projection monitor and the jvs rays i/o board is fried again. The last time this happened it took 5 years before an untested one came up on ebay from Canada and the punt paid off. But now there's little chance of getting another a further 3 years down the line.
So now you have this big lump of a cabinet and the question is 'what should you do with it ? '.
Be nice lol
 
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Some years ago an arcade I did repairs for had an Alpine Surfer rear projection 50”
Green circuit burned away and picture showed really dull with black trees and purple snow etc not playable at all

Don’t recall details fully but acquired a flat screen Tv and the signal board had an output in the cabinet which adapted to SCART ? Not sure if it’s on all Namco games? May have even been scart? Did the swap on site so not too difficult.
Removed screen and mounted a flat tv.

only issues I recall was 2 seperate plugs initially needed to wall sockets but eventually linked into one mains lead
Small gap round Tv frame needed to be masked to hide see through gaps .

The tv remote menu allowed an input setting to match the input scart source which occasionally had to be re selected? Or occasionally it needed power on at remote button . Bit hassle in arcade but for home use maybe more bearable? Not certain of tv make but it was about 50” and wide screen was all I found to fit cabinet, so image was just a bit squashed vertically but played ok

Only negative was the tv type had the acute side viewing angle blind out where the picture contrast is not seen close to? Straight on view was nice colour and clear , not sure how it might affect gun aim alignment on a shooter though?

Sorry can’t give more info than that but it saved premature scrapping as a rear project chassis never came up even when they were common… it is possible but I only did it once about 20 + years ago?

Worked ok for a couple of years till it lost favour of players and all the projector stuff stayed in the base just disconnected the power to the lamps bit. It took two people to do it and trial and error thinking till a result was successful .
 
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Ultrashort projector if the RPTV packs in and you can't save it.

Crisis Zone was on PS2 wasn't it? That version needs a scanline CRT to play. It's got nicer graphics than the arcade game, but in order for the lightgun to register, it fogs up the screen when you fire which looks rubbish.
It looks like MAME now emulates it, although I don't know what monster of a PC it needs.

I used to own Crisis Zone. It's fun for a little bit, but I much preferred Time Crisis - more depth in that with all the shortcuts etc, and it's not so satisfying having to empty 50 bullets into everyone to make them fall over.
 
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bones said:
So you have a Namco crisis zone deluxe with the projection monitor and the jvs rays i/o board is fried again. The last time this happened it took 5 years before an untested one came up on ebay from Canada and the punt paid off. But now there's little chance of getting another a further 3 years down the line.
So now you have this big lump of a cabinet and the question is 'what should you do with it ? '.
Be nice lol
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Light gun multi cab,teknoparrot,nuff said!
 
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Sure, I get that, but I was confused seeing Teknoparrot and PS4's mentioned.
I thought MAME and PS2 were the only ways to play Crisis Zone, but I could be mistaken.
 
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