Recent content by sbmania

The resolution of the Rev X problem: Long story short - I sent the board off to Ken Westerfield at Advanced Repair Center. www.irepairsega.com Phone 650-599-9792 He replaced every single surface mount cap on the board (which had all leaked) and also repaired a number of traces that were...

I do board work on pinball boards but not much with surface mount and traces as fine as these. I have a Hakko desolder station and weller solder station but no specialized equipment. Anybody got some advice on the proper method to go about repairing this with what I have? Or anybody available...

Looks like you are correct. As can be seen in the pics, there are at least 8 places on the board that show corrosion near caps. Looks like a mess. Not sure I can handle the repair or not. Any suggestions on how to proceed or who to send it to?

Those caps are all surface mount I'm guessing? I don't have the equipment to work on surface mount. Only standard old school boards.

Just picked up a cosmetically really nice Rev X but it will not boot. Just shows a green screen which occasionally jumps to a multicolored screen briefly as it looks like it wants to boot. Won't coin up or enter test mode. Has all power to the CPU. I see that LED 1 (on the right side) on the...

Fortunately, the conversion was done well before I got the game so I can't take credit (or blame) for that. However, whoever did it left all of the Berzerk boards in the game. The MPU has some battery damage but the others seem ok. Anyone have interest in them? I'd love to see Berzerk come...

I just picked up an old Berzerk cabinet that someone had installed a 412/1 board in it and I have some newbie questions. I'm mainly a pinball tech so this video stuff is a little new to me. 1) Q*bert is nearly impossible to play with a regular joystick. I mounted an additional 4 way joystick...

I've got a Big Choice where the motor will not go front and back - only side to side. I think motors are good. What should I check on the board? IT was working fine and suddenly stopped.

Just bumping this to see if anyone can provide any additional insight. To summarize, the helicopter sound and top of building music plays correctly at the top of the first building when the climber gets a helicopter ride of the roof. At the top of the second and third buildings, the helicopter...

Thanks! I appreciate the help! Would you say it still could be the AY even when sounds, speech and music are all normal on other stages of game play - except for this one particular scene? eg, second building helicopter pick up? The same speech is used in the first building and it works...

Still in the process of fixing up a Crazy Climber I recently got in. I noticed that although the sounds and music appear correct in general, on the second building, when getting picked up by the helicopter, the "Look Out" voice doesn't sound and the tune played is not quite all there, Also a...

Here's a slight update. I connected to RGB-sync connector to a flat screen via an interface board and got pretty much the sale blue screen scrolling lines as in the original monitor. I'm now thinking that the video output or sync output from the Crazy Climber board is bad. I have a manual on...

Nobody with an ideas on where to go with this? Failing that, who repairs Crazy Climber boards?

I recently picked up a Taito Crazy Climber with a WG4600 monitor. The guy I got it from said it was working several years back but the monitor was a bit off. He recapped the monitor, tested it on the bench, reinstalled it into the game and put the game away in his basement. When he pulled it...

Crap! Just realized the post was from 2019! Oh well, if anybody has a Crazy Climber anywhere near PA, I am interested! LOL!