Coming Soon

Asteroids Repair Part 3
Neo Geo MVS 2 slot Repair
Centuri Phoenix/Eagle multi cab
Centuri Eagle Board #2 Repair
And much more

Fighting Golf Board Fix

Initial boots to garbage:

Reseat all socketed chips and now boots to ram error and flipped image:

Replaced and socketed RAM at 9-P:

Rebooted, and still get VRAM error at 9-P.

Did visual inspection of area around 9-P and noticed some damaged traces on the board (in hindsight, should have done this first)

Got out the meter and did continuity tests on all of the traces and found a bad one (red arrow)

Ran a jumper wire to bypass the broken trace:

Booted up and get this screen:

Jumper for test mode was switched on.  Turned it off and...

 

Centuri Eagle Board Repair

 Upon initial boot, no video, no sound.

 

 

Reseated all roms, and got the background starfield to appear but nothing else.

 

Difficult to tell in the picture, but the background starfield is present

 

Reseated the cpu, and did a quick once over on the board.

Noticed the IC (6331-1J)at 6L was hanging out of it's socket, and was pretty mangled.  Replaced the IC.

 

 Success!

 One of the best attract mode messages ever:

Also have a 2nd boardset that needs to be repaired, will come back to that one later, but I suspect the problem with this one lies in this section:

Building a JAMMA test rig from spare parts.

Decided to throw together a quickie JAMMA test rig from parts I had laying around

Not too many details for this, but a few pics below.  Still need to add a few extra buttons for credit and p1/p2 start, along with adding a test and service switch.

Parts List:
Old 15" Dell computer monitror.
Gonbes GBS-8200 CGA/EGA/YUV/RGB To VGA Arcade Game Video Converter.
JAMMA Connector
Old PC switching power supply
Old Speaker/grill
Male DB9 connector x2
Sega Master System GamePad

Getting all the parts together to test:

Throw it into a slapped together wooden box:

Might try to make a different housing for it, but not too concerned.  Doesn't have to look pretty.  Now to get started troubleshooting some old boards.

Hmmm, What's going on here Part 8

Wiring up microswitches to KeyWiz adapter.

Next step, wiring up power, speakers, and install monitor bezel.  Then marquee and cpo.

Game Room Pics November 2016

Just a few pics of the game room as it sits today...

In the game room:
Lethal Enforcers- Monitor needs repair
Blitz 2000 Gold- Fully working
Die Hard Arcade- Fully Working
Asteroids- Partially Working (board issue)
Arkanoid- Not working (needs to be put back together.
Punch Out!!- Needs monitor repair
Phoenix- Fully Working
Pole Position II- Not working
"What's going On Here"- Almost finished.
Ice Cold Beer- Fully Working
BurgerTime- Fully Working
Rowe R-92 CD jukebox- Works but CD player has issues
Ardac C-Series Coin Changer- Works
Tank II- Not sure haven't plugged it in yet, needs a new joystick.
Neo Geo 2 slot Gold- Fully Working
Space Invaders with 8-1 Multi Kit- Fully working
Tron- Working (need to tune in the monitor a bit, and fix some of the lighting
Williams MultiGame- Need to finish Control Panel
60-1 Muti-Cade- Need to fix Trackball wiring
Ms. Pac Man with 96-1- Fully Working
King of Route 66- Fully Working
Gyruss Coctail- Fully Working.

Oh and my Neon sign stopped working too... guess I'll be taking that in for repair at some point.

Hmmm, What's going on here Part 7

Finished painting, some touch up still needed, but that will have to wait until next year.

More to come...

Amazing what a cap kit will do

Before:

It's difficult to tell from the pictures, but the top of the monitor was quite dim, while the bottom is washed out.  Brightness was turned up way too high, but that was the only way the top would be visible, turning down the brightness would cause the top to disappear while the bottom would still be washed out.


After:

Hmmm, What's going on here Part 6

And some more tape and paint...

Does it Work? Ms. Pac Man edition.

Time for another episode of "Does It Work?"



Spoiler alert:  It does.
Threw my 96-1 Multi-Pac in there, so plenty of Pac Goodness for years to come.

Need to do a cap kit, throw on a CPO, and maybe some new leg levelers and t-molding.  Might do a joystick rebuild too, but to be honest after playing for a few hours it felt pretty good.  Player 1 start button is a little finicky, but probably just needs to be adjusted or cleaned.  Other than that I think I will leave as is. I could re-stencil it, but I probably won't. I like the character.

Hmmm, What's going on here Part 5

And lets get rid of that tape...

Hmmm What's going on here Part 4

And a little more paint...

Hmmm, What's going on here Part 3

A little tape?

...

When those stories you hear that happen to other people...

...happen to you.



Or if you prefer not to watch the video... had a nice pickup yesterday.

$50 each.
Ms Pac has no monitor, but works otherwise.  ICB needs replacement belts which I will be ordering soon.

Lots of projects this summer

Slowly getting things done, starting to lay down the new floor in the gameroom.

Got the next color of paint for the "What's Going On Here..." Part 3 update so that should be online soon.  Hope to keep checking off items on my list, been slower than I would have liked, as like most places, been super hot this summer, and upper 90's and no air conditioning is not how I want to work.
Current list of projects:
Summer of Repair 2016 In Progress
Install new floor - In Progress
Asteroids vector issue- On Hold (Board Issue)
Burgertime Monitor Horizontal Hold issue- In Progress
Complete "What's Going On Here" Project- In Progress
Lethal Enforcers- Monitor blowing fuse
Build New Backdoors/fix lights/New T-Molding on Tron
Replace Leg Levelers where needed- In Progress
Replace roof on Gameroom
Repaint/Repair exterior, time permitting
 
Finish trim on Windows in Gameroom- Completed April 2016
Blitz 99 board swap and upgrade- Completed April 2016
Phoenix Monitor Horizontal Hold issue- Completed June 2016
Fix whatever ails Tron -Completed May 2016
Burgertime replace lower marquee bracket- Completed May 2016
Multi- Williams- Finish cabinet work- Finished, Painted and Sideart Installed June 2016