Arcade Manuals - WTF?

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Post your favorite screw ups, mistakes, funny translations, crappy hand drawings, or anything else that makes you go WTF? when reading an arcade manual...

All Your Base Belong To Us (not sure if that's in the manual but you get the point)

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Actually going through the Donkey Kong Cabaret manual they mixed up voltage and tension in the translation somehow

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Also they refer to the control panel clamps as cramps

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Some printings of Radarscope's back door sheet goof up the "Caution section". They repeat themselves.

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Radarscope's schematic package has a printing error on the TRS2 soundboard schematic. It looks like they photocopied it with a hair on the bed. I suppose it could have just been a mark on the original copy. The scan online and this physical copy both have the printing error.
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In all of Nintendo's manuals going up to the playchoice I think, they label schottky diodes as "shot key".
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I don't have the picture but the Sega/Gremlin mini cabinet of Space Firebird has the wrong schematics for the sound board. Instead of including Space Firebird's soundboard, they included the schematics for Space Fever. I'll take a picture later.
 
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