Shadowknight93
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Hello Everyone,
Here is my situation, A local arcade has a Disney's rave machine that is in working order, except several of the pads arrows do not work (bad sensors) and the arcade does not want to fight trying to take the brackets off the arrows as most of the screws are stripped, so they are parting out the machine. They have a buyer for just about everything except for the complete PCB (enclosed in the metal container, has everything plugged in, security cart, CD ROM with CD, Flash Card in slot 2, ect ..) in which it has been tested and works with no issues.
So my question is, could I disconnect everything external from the PCB in my extreme machine, slide it out, then slide in the Disney's rave complete PCB, and connect everything to it, then power on the machine and it should simply boot to disneys rave, since the security cart would be in the original pcb with the same serial number and would be still installed on the same flash card it was, basically everything would match up.
The arcade technician told me, the DDR machine installs on the Slot 2 flash card drive, and the security cart verifies the PCB's serial number, thus all I need to do is simply remove the external connectors from the current PCB housing in my machine, slide it out and slide in the Disney's rave and connect everything to its housing, then power on the machine and it would boot disneys rave. I am not sure this would work, so I figured I'd ask as they want $1200 for the complete PCB which I am fine paying if it would work that way, but to me, it seems too easy for it to work like that, and I see lots of threads saying you cannot downgrade, but in this case the entire PCB would be removed and replaced so technically shouldn't it work as I am not trying to install disneys rave on my current PCB, I am simply replacing it with a PCB that has it installed.
Here is my situation, A local arcade has a Disney's rave machine that is in working order, except several of the pads arrows do not work (bad sensors) and the arcade does not want to fight trying to take the brackets off the arrows as most of the screws are stripped, so they are parting out the machine. They have a buyer for just about everything except for the complete PCB (enclosed in the metal container, has everything plugged in, security cart, CD ROM with CD, Flash Card in slot 2, ect ..) in which it has been tested and works with no issues.
So my question is, could I disconnect everything external from the PCB in my extreme machine, slide it out, then slide in the Disney's rave complete PCB, and connect everything to it, then power on the machine and it should simply boot to disneys rave, since the security cart would be in the original pcb with the same serial number and would be still installed on the same flash card it was, basically everything would match up.
The arcade technician told me, the DDR machine installs on the Slot 2 flash card drive, and the security cart verifies the PCB's serial number, thus all I need to do is simply remove the external connectors from the current PCB housing in my machine, slide it out and slide in the Disney's rave and connect everything to its housing, then power on the machine and it would boot disneys rave. I am not sure this would work, so I figured I'd ask as they want $1200 for the complete PCB which I am fine paying if it would work that way, but to me, it seems too easy for it to work like that, and I see lots of threads saying you cannot downgrade, but in this case the entire PCB would be removed and replaced so technically shouldn't it work as I am not trying to install disneys rave on my current PCB, I am simply replacing it with a PCB that has it installed.
