5 - 3-board sets of Star Wars boards, 1 cage/brick

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5 - 3-board sets of Star Wars boards, now with problem descriptions.

I have 5 non-working sets of Star Wars boards for sale for $750. 1 is a dead brick and the other 4 are working with problems.

Last year I was offered this on each board:

Completely dead: $150.
Plays Blind: $175
Plays with issues (sprites or mathbox probs): $200.
Plays 100%: $275

I didn't have the boards with me so we never finished the deal. The guy also emailed me the last 5 Ebay sold at the time:

$162.00 ended Sept 21, 10 untested
$237.50 ended Oct 3, 10 tested working
$156.39 ended Oct 7, 10 untested
$201.50 ended Oct 11, 10 untested
$204.50 ended Oct 24, 10 tested working

Based on that stuff, I figured $150/board was a decent price since most of them fall into the $200 range. Now this was last year so things change. Let me know if you are interested in these. I will also consider trades for stuff on my list if the buyer is paying shipping on this package as I assume it will be $100-$200or so from Canada. If there is no interest in the whole lot I will consider selling individual boards. I would prefer to keep these off ebay.
 

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So it seems as though I am getting a lot more interest in splitting this up than in the whole lot. I was hoping there was someone here that would buy them all, fix them and flip them for $300+/set but that doesn't seem like it is going to happen. I basically just didn't want to pack each one up and go to the post office 5 different times.

I am going to list the test results and let people make offers on boards they are interested in. Maybe you have fixed one similar and know what to do with it. For starters though I will say $150 for the dead one and $175-$200 for the ones that turn on. Plus actual shipping. I can't get quotes right now as I don't have the boards and am getting ready to go away for the weekend. you can go to Canadapost and do a quote from Canada to USA from T1Y7H8 to your zip and estimate dimensions and weight to get an idea though.

Here are the test results from a KLOV'er that was nice enough to test these all for me:


On all I swapped in a set of proms and a working AVG chip. So results below are with the new prom set and AVG chip. This does not mean they needed it, but I tried anyways.. most did the same thing even after swap as they did before. Most of the old tape on the boards says to try swapping out a prom, then its written it wasn't that prom.. Almost all of the boardsets had an issue with the background objects like stars and enemies although the words, attract, x-wing were rendered fine which is why I swapped in the proms and probably why previous owner tried as well although it seems he was always trying to swap the same one on all boards. I believe all that could get into test mode had matrix error B0000. One had a bad vram but did not make a dif when new was swapped in so probably a ls244 or 245 or whatever communicates to the ram. Only one out of the 4 semi-working had a garbled test mode screen... I believe it was the 5th one.

2) works completely as far as I can tell but has loud white noise sound all the time. The refresh rate also seems very slow making the screen flicker...
but game speed seems fine.. very odd. This one probably a fairly easy fix.
3) Game seems to work completely but starfield and enemies are compressed into a single horizontal line in center of the screen. One of the sets I believe had a bad prom, and a bad avg for sure.. this might have been the one. I do not believe it functioned prior to the swap very well.. can't remember.... This one also probably a pretty easy fix.
4) green text comes up in attract mode. It seems to sit on that screen..
stars not moving. You can coin up with no sound. When you hit a trigger, you hear the coin up voices and it advances to the level choice screen. Usually it sits there and when you bring crosshairs over deathstar they turn yellow so it is registering position.. hitting fire does nothing for the most part, but I got it to go past that screen once.. no enemies or stars.. death star flickers on the right of screen.. cannot remember if it played the music or not..unplayable.
5) Text in attract comes up, but letters are flying all over like the stars are letters instead of stars.. very odd.. after the first green text nothing on screen but very large letters flying out from center.
 
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So the completely dead board is sold and shipped.

Boards 2-5 are still available. I will sell them for $175 each plus $40 for shipping.
 
$200 shipped for any of the remaining boardsets. 3 of 4 have both interconnect boards. One is missing one of them.
 
These may be going to England (he has first call on them) but if that falls through I have done a more accurate shipping quote and will sell the remaining 4 boards for $600 shipped.

Here are some pictures that I took for another user here.
 

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