Tag: arcade
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Bringing Joust Back to Life
So it came to pass that I ended up with three cabinets for $100 each. A Great Golf in a Midway cabaret, some Toaplan run-n-gun in a Taito Qix cabinet, and… A Joust(!) in its original cabinet. I agreed to purchase all three sight-unseen. When I get them all home, the golf game worked except…
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Joust Showing 1 3 5 and a REALLY Effed-Up Screen
[This was extracted from a large article about getting a dead Joust operational. I thought it made sense to put this part in its own post to help anyone else with a similar issue. This post may reference content from an earlier post, so keep that in mind when reading.] So at this point the Joust will…
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Joust With an Input Problem – 1st Player Always Runs Left
[This was extracted from a large article about getting a dead Joust operational. I thought it made sense to put this part in its own post to help anyone else with a similar issue. It may reference content from the previous two posts here and here.] …So now I have a Joust that boots correctly…
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Sanyo 20EZ Video Inversion (Parts Kit) Searchable Page
On Bob Roberts site, there is (or was, if the link is broken by the time you read this) a scan of a page that details how to add the missing parts to the Sanyo 20-EZ monitor chassis to allow it to perform video inversion. Since the page was scanned and not run through an…
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Dig Dug with Floating Pins
Going through my boards, I came across a second Dig Dug board. This one boots to static garbage and no sound. Watchdog is barking. Removing one of the CPUs gets different garbage. Tried replacing with a known good one, no change. Checking the pins shows me that a couple of the data lines, from…
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Roc’N Rope PCB Issues
Got an interesting problem with a Roc’N Rope board that I recently connected up to the new JAMMA test rig. It has all its sounds, and plays correctly, but the text and tiles (e.g. the title graphics and the graphics used to build the levels) are all upside-down! When the screen is flipped for cocktail…
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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…