Category: Arcade Tech and Repair
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Centipede Cocktails — Cocktail #2
My previous post, about Cocktail #1, clearly documents the “easy one.” This second one is gonna be another story. It has a very dead monitor, and a non-functional board. I have not yet benched the monitor, but it has no neck glow, which is never a good sign. The board has problems, but at least…
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Centipede Cocktails — Cocktail #1
Well, I ended up taking two Centipede cocktails off of another local collector as a package deal. Still want that Gorf, though… Will have to come back to that one soon! But I digress… So I have two Centipede cocktails here. One of them has a dead monitor (and a non-working board, I later discovered),…
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Sprint 2 – Stiff Steering and Hard Shifting
Problem: Stiff spinning steering modules and hard shifting between gears (Quick little story – while bringing this beast into its location, I fell and got pinned under it for a few minutes. It is amazing how much having your chest compressed effects your ability to call out for help! 🙂 OK – onto the next…
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Punch-Out vertical foldover/overdraw
The Punch-out that I recently obtained has a monitor issue (a monitors issue, really). Both displays are bring drawn starting ~2″ from the bottom of the monitor, and the upper few inches are being overdrawn on the same horizontal plane. In other words, the beam is scanning left/right correctly but is starting too low and…
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Punch-Out
Problem: Dead Purchased a Punch-Out in dead condition. Got it home, still dead. Rocking the game and/or whacking the sides a bit got a brief flash of light on it so I went in and reconnected all connectors. Game then came up right after that. A little adjustment to the micro-switch arms and the game is…
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Resources
Arcade Repair-Related Resources PAC-MAN Information (similar hardware) http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jerry/arcade/pacman/ Arcade Game Over http://www.arcadegameover.com/board_repair.html Coin Operated Video Game Conversions http://www.marvin3m.com/video/ Pac Man Info (very detailed and very technical) http://users.erols.com/mowerman/pacfile.htm Pac-Man Hacks http://www.purecope.com/pacman/index.htm Romident http://www.system16.com/romident.html
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Unknown Atari Kangaroo Board
Atari Kangaroo – After watching the attract mode for a little bit (~30 seconds), the game started to show some visual artifacts on the RHS of the screen. They were horizontal blurbs that looked like multicolor static. However, each of the blurbs, while in a random vertical location, were identical.
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9000A-Z80 Pod (Fluke)
Bought this Pod in “tested good” (yeah, right!) condition from a surplus company. Pod passes its self test without any problems, so I naturally trusted the results and thought that the Pod was working correctly. Turns out that the pod was not working correctly, but I did not figure this out until tearing apart a…