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Finally got some time to check her out. Unwrapped her and found that the condition wasn't as "GREAT" as I originally thought. Still, it's not too terribly bad though. The side art has some dings and the cabinet does too. But the cab is solid with no water damage! Plugged it in, nothing happened. Looked for a power switch somewhere on the top or back of the cab, nowhere to be found. Opened her up, what a weird cab design. Found an interlock switch in the front behind the "coin door". Had some duct tape on it, apparently trying to keep it pressed in. Pulled it out and it the game fired right up! This took care of the "black screen, bulb might be burnt out" problem. Guess the last owner didn't know about that switch. Funny to read about interlock switches always being the "problem". Player 1 start button does not work, but player 2 start does. I'll have to track that down later. The joystick SUCKS. You can feel it bind up.
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Started tackling the joystick. Took it apart and found some wear and ridge where the spring rides against the housing, which kept it from moving around freely. Took the grinder to the ridge and cleaned it up with a scotch brite pad, nice and smooth now. Also, the top most mounting tab of the stick was broken off. It's been JB Welded and drying right now. I'll throw it all back together and lube it up tomorrow and see how she does.
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Finished "rebuilding" the joystick. It is WAY better than it was before. Still kind of a pile of junk when compared to my Gorf joystick, but at least the game can be played now.
Took apart the buttons and gave them a bath, now they actually look like they're white. Cleaned the CPO, side art, paint, t-molding, pretty much the whole exterior with some TASKI-Profi. Took years of dirt, grime, and soda gunk off the cab. The white parts of the side art had a brown tinge to them, but after the TASKI-Profi they're white again, and it didn't pull up any of the ink!
When I turned it back on the screen was scrambled pretty much exactly like my Arkanoid used to do, and the Arkanoid had a sync problem. Didn't matter what I did on the monitor chassis, nothing got better. Went down to the bottom end and touched the video connector on the filter board, and BAM! the monitor was fine again. Thought it must have been a loose wire...
Started to track down the player 1 start button not working. As I was tracing back, I came back to the filter board and when I move one of the connectors associated with player 1 start, it would work. Messed around with it for a bit trying to get it to a point where it would work consistantly and I lost the sound. But when I moved the harnesses on top of the filter board, it would come back, until I tried getting player 1 start to work again. Decided I better take the filter board out. Flipped it over and found quite a few cracked solder joints on the pin headers. Most likely the cause of all my problems. I'll be reflowing all the joints soon.
The wife flipped out when I brought this one home. Trying to get this machine up to snuff to resell it to get her off my back. Interesting game to play, but if I have to choose between this and Gorf, I'll be keeping my Gorf.
Took apart the buttons and gave them a bath, now they actually look like they're white. Cleaned the CPO, side art, paint, t-molding, pretty much the whole exterior with some TASKI-Profi. Took years of dirt, grime, and soda gunk off the cab. The white parts of the side art had a brown tinge to them, but after the TASKI-Profi they're white again, and it didn't pull up any of the ink!
When I turned it back on the screen was scrambled pretty much exactly like my Arkanoid used to do, and the Arkanoid had a sync problem. Didn't matter what I did on the monitor chassis, nothing got better. Went down to the bottom end and touched the video connector on the filter board, and BAM! the monitor was fine again. Thought it must have been a loose wire...
Started to track down the player 1 start button not working. As I was tracing back, I came back to the filter board and when I move one of the connectors associated with player 1 start, it would work. Messed around with it for a bit trying to get it to a point where it would work consistantly and I lost the sound. But when I moved the harnesses on top of the filter board, it would come back, until I tried getting player 1 start to work again. Decided I better take the filter board out. Flipped it over and found quite a few cracked solder joints on the pin headers. Most likely the cause of all my problems. I'll be reflowing all the joints soon.
The wife flipped out when I brought this one home. Trying to get this machine up to snuff to resell it to get her off my back. Interesting game to play, but if I have to choose between this and Gorf, I'll be keeping my Gorf.
