Big Buck Safari I/O Power Plug help please

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Hello,
I have aquired a Big Buck Safari 27" upright that didn't have the original computer or dongle in it. I have bought a Big Buck World Dongle and 1.17 restore discs. I was looking to put an old desktop computer in it to confirm it is all working before buying a Dell for it. The only hiccup so far is getting hold of a Raw Thrills connector that is inside the computer that connects to this 8 pin plug.
I was hoping someone could post some pics of where the wires go to inside the computer so I can make a temporary replacement to get it up and running.
Thank you for any help.

Scott
 

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I am going to go out on a limb here, Not owing one of these myself, I am going to assume that it is the +5 +12 and Ground harness to power the rest of the boards. So if you found a schematic for the game you should be able to trace out what each wire is for and power it accordingly.

I had to do the same thing with my Hydrothunder test setup.
 
Yes, it is a power out to the I/O boards. It ties into the motherboard power plug. See pics attached. The cable runs under the video card on this version (Big Buck World).
 

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that harness also contains "power good" from the power supply, "power on" to the power supply and the board along with the GND, +5 and +12.

There are also two versions of the internal harness depending on which power supply and mother board you have. In the post above mine you see the mini ATX power supply connector and watch dog board harness.

I could get you pics but I'm away from my shop until the 17th.
 
Thanks for the feedback so far. Gamefixer, do you think it would be feasible to make my own? I can cut a spare connector from a floppy disk power lead to tap into power wires to start to create my own harness or do I need that watchdog board?
I can wait till the 17th for some pictures.

Thanks All

Scott
 
Thanks for the feedback so far. Gamefixer, do you think it would be feasible to make my own? I can cut a spare connector from a floppy disk power lead to tap into power wires to start to create my own harness or do I need that watchdog board?
I can wait till the 17th for some pictures.

Thanks All

Scott

Yeah, you could make your own harness. Any Raw Thrills distributor will sell it if you dont want to go through the trouble. I can get the part number but not being 100% sure as to where you are (one of your pics might indicate AUS?) it may be easier to make it.

Your cabinet already has the watch dog board. Its the board on the right in one of your pictures.

The harness connects to the ATX24 pin harness not a hard drive power harness. Although, you could make it work from a hard drive power harness.

Black to black, red to red and yellow to orange. Never mind the purple, white, grey wires in that 10 pin connector (or is it 12?). So long as the PC's BIOS is set to power up after power failure it should come right up and power the I/O board, watch dog board and the guns.

You may need to make some adjustments in the BIOS, see attached.
 

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Thanks for the advice. I temporary wired in the 4 wires and got some red LEDs on the I/O board. I am currently trying to install BBW 1.17 discs that came with the security dongle but it is not going further than the Disc 1 finished please insert disc 2 screen. I swap the discs out but it's not progressing any further.

Regards

Scott
 
Thanks for the advice. I temporary wired in the 4 wires and got some red LEDs on the I/O board. I am currently trying to install BBW 1.17 discs that came with the security dongle but it is not going further than the Disc 1 finished please insert disc 2 screen. I swap the discs out but it's not progressing any further.

Regards

Scott

sounds like that 2nd disc might be bad. Does it eventually show an error?
 
I have left it overnight and the screen hadn't changed so I ejected the DVD and closed it again. Will check again later.

Scott
 
I think you could check make sure dvd drive is sata 0 and hard drive is sata 1. If dvd drive is ide, then bad disc may be the issue, however unlikely.
 
I think you could check make sure dvd drive is sata 0 and hard drive is sata 1. If dvd drive is ide, then bad disc may be the issue, however unlikely.

factory is the other way around but it doesnt matter which order they are in. I've had the hard drive on SATA3 on some of the games and it still works.
 
Have tried swapping the sata cables over. No difference. I shouldn't need to type anything or press any keys I imagine as it should automatically kick in once disc 2 is in the drive. Might try either another computer or HDD.

Scott
 
I'd try another DVD drive before I tried another HD or computer.
 
Tried another DVD drive. Seems to be working so far. It's verified the disc and currently reading checkpoints. Will keep you updated.
Thanks for the suggestions.

Scott 😁
 
Game has installed. Have tried loading it up but it is asking for a dongle from the previous series. I only have the dongle for Big Buck World.
Do I now need another dongle or can run the game with just the BBW dongle?

Appreciating the help.

Scott
 

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Game has installed. Have tried loading it up but it is asking for a dongle from the previous series. I only have the dongle for Big Buck World.
Do I now need another dongle or can run the game with just the BBW dongle?

Appreciating the help.

Scott

You have the "upgrade" software so its going to need a dongle from a previous version of the game.

I've got World 1.20 on a computer at my office but I dont know if its upgrade or standalone.
 
Upgrade version?? They don't like to make it simple do they? Do you know that many versions there are?

Scott
 
Yeah, upgrade.

From any previous version of BBH to BBH World was a cheap kit, like $800US or something like that.

There are two versions of Buck World, Upgrade and dedicated.
 
Raw Thrills only list down the 1.17 version to buy. Whenever you get back if you could check you version that would be great.

Thanks

Scott
 
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