OP
OP
are you a fellow depressed Omega Race owner?
- Thread starter vintagegamer
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Blue hue on the cocktail, cabaret. Yellow hue on the UR, dunno what the cockpit overlay is/was?
I'm in great cab non woring board set
kjeffery
New member
Ive seen a good bit of these and they all have been in great shape but non working. My buddy told me they are always in good shape because in the arcades they were always broken and not in service
Nevus
Member
There sure was. It works great.
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My PCB set was serviced by flippers.com before I got it. My arcade friend tells me that he got both dead arcade cabs from LA, together. He bought close to twenty board sets, all acid damaged, and sent the lot to flippers and they were able to fix two of the main boards. The others were complete scrap. Flippers.com is in Canada, so shipping from TX to here isn't cheap. I should know, I had to ship my Armor Attack and Star Castle boards to another talented Canadian for repair. Over a hundred dollars round trip, as I recall.
I paid $500 as the initial price for my cab, with a blooming problem. Part of my repairs were giving this expensive PCB a complete cap kit, just in case. It's probably my expensive game, but I really really love the floating vector effect. As much of a cheapskate KLOVer I am, as much as I complain, it was worth every penny. Remember, I'm a major cheapskate...
The sound board died on me, but those are easy to find working, it's the smaller board of the PCB set.
I paid $500 as the initial price for my cab, with a blooming problem. Part of my repairs were giving this expensive PCB a complete cap kit, just in case. It's probably my expensive game, but I really really love the floating vector effect. As much of a cheapskate KLOVer I am, as much as I complain, it was worth every penny. Remember, I'm a major cheapskate...
The sound board died on me, but those are easy to find working, it's the smaller board of the PCB set.
Hyde
Well-known member
That is absolutely beautiful. I hope I can get my cab to look like that!
If you ever get tired of your star castle, let me know.
I'm surprise no one says the same thing about Armor Attack. I hope what I said about my Omega Race helps a few owners that need them repaired. Sometimes nice things cost money, and this game isn't cheap to get working. Did I mention I was cheap??? Anyway, worth the money to get a few PCBs and try to make one good one, even if it does cost several hundred dollars.
That is sweet!
I totally forgot about the OR CP until I read/saw it on this site. There was one up at the local pizza joint I used to play.
I have an upright waiting to be restored/fixed.
jpopson
New member
I actually picked up a near mint upright and a cocktail. The uprights board was pretty damaged, but the cocktail? not so much. Put it in the upright cabinet after removing the battery and what do you know, it fired right up!!!! Kickass game!!!
AHHH Omega Race.....Sooo many memories! Used to play one at a Ben Franklin a long time ago. I believe it was right next to a Battlezone and a Alpine Ski.... Awesome game!
I've held off getting one of these cause of the boards... Gotta question, what makes these boardsets hard to fix. I've fixed some battery acid damaged boards on some pins but? Is it that the traces are completely gone or is the fact that its just so time consuming to fix everything? Sounds like you can be a rich man if you corner the *fix Omega Race boardset* market....
I've held off getting one of these cause of the boards... Gotta question, what makes these boardsets hard to fix. I've fixed some battery acid damaged boards on some pins but? Is it that the traces are completely gone or is the fact that its just so time consuming to fix everything? Sounds like you can be a rich man if you corner the *fix Omega Race boardset* market....
LyonsArcade
Well-known member
It's far worse than the pinball boards... the battery was mounted at the top and drips down over about 8 ram chips, so you've got to repair all those traces, and you know how ram banks are, tons and tons of traces weaving between pins, etc. On mine the damage was so bad that a few chips had actually fallen off the board into the bottom of the cabinet.
Imagine a completely destroyed Gottlieb System 1 motherboard, X10.
butthead
New member
Mine Is Sweet, Works 100%, Clean Boards no acid damage.
Who is the Scum Bag That bid on my three boards with acid damage and has not paid me yet!! Your user name is coming up to Looser Lane.
Actually one of them is no that bad.
Who is the Scum Bag That bid on my three boards with acid damage and has not paid me yet!! Your user name is coming up to Looser Lane.
Actually one of them is no that bad.
Quazimoto
New member
OR
Mine has worked fine....boards are sweet....havent done a battery swap yet...I keep an eye on it. Gotta figure out how to do it. My monitor is starting to vert collapse. I get1-2inch a thin horizontal image. I already replaced a HV diode a year ago and it worked fine till now......
Mine has worked fine....boards are sweet....havent done a battery swap yet...I keep an eye on it. Gotta figure out how to do it. My monitor is starting to vert collapse. I get1-2inch a thin horizontal image. I already replaced a HV diode a year ago and it worked fine till now......
Geez, why don't you take it off the board and mount it elsewhere in the cab? It takes no time at all to do that.
Just unsolder it and solder some wires for your remote battery...
Just unsolder it and solder some wires for your remote battery...
omegaman
Active member
I'm thinking that is the game cabinet that was at the Superauction.
