Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat - Pretty Cool but need manual

[FullThrottle]

Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat - Pretty Cool but need manual

I did some trading and ended up with a MONSTER 3p racing game that I hadn't played since childhood... Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat!

Anyone else remember playing this 15 or more years ago?

Its pretty damn fun actually, like Ironman Offroad but with Indy cars. It has a really cool light up marquee and oddball control panels. I didn't have room for it, but didn't want to pass on the chance of getting such a unique game that you don't see everyday. 7 feet tall! It was hell getting it unloaded but in the end I think it will be a cool addition. The game has a few but plays, I can't figure out how to get into service mode! It has 255 credits stuck on it and all the players automatically start when you plug it in and automatically continues to the next track when it wants more money. I'd like to get into test mode and see what it says, but its got some trick like Pigout and Ironman to get into the menu...

Anyone got a scanned manual or link to one for a Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat? I looked on Crazykong and arcarc.xmission but neither have it in their database's...

 

[Paladin]

It's the same company that made Super Off Road, so did you try the same method:

With the Blue Nitro button depressed, press the test button inside the coin door.

 

[FullThrottle]

Yup, I figured out how to get into it... figured out it had one of the buttons wired to the wrong post of the switch so it was stuck closed and preventing any button presses.

It would be nice to have the manual anyways (try to print them all off for my games) The game comes on and plays but has two or three issues that I can see...

You saw the cabinet in person, its in good enough shape and oddball enough I think its worth putting some effort into to get it 100%, even if it is a huge pain in the ass and doesn't get going for a little while.

Its missing one of the steering gears, mechanism and pcb on one of the wheels... I'm gonna compare it to Ironman but I think it looks totally different if memory serves me right.

This stuff is gonna be a post in the repair forum hopefully sooner than later, but here it is here anyways...
The steering wheels all three think you're going left, both directions, even when you're turning clockwise. I've checked the wiring and steering boards, I think its somewhere in the main boardset.
Also it fills up almost instantly with 255 credits when you turn it on for all three players, so all three must play and never can stop, it stays at 255 when all three continue.

 

[Dave27]

Sounds like the game Buck had good job. Did you have to trade much for it. Thats some bumpy road going up to his place

 

[jalpert]

Link to manual:

PM me if you need it.

 

[jalpert]

I love Indy Heat. I picked up a cab in good shape for cheap. I am VERY fond of off-road, that is what I remember as a kid. That being said, Indy Heat is technically a better game.

The best thing about Indy Heat is that it ends. You play a circuit of 12 races and your points accumulate. it makes it more fun playing against a friend when you can win or loose, with offroad it just goes and goes.

The other thing that makes Indy Heat fun are the pits. Not only do you have to pit, and you can upgrade your pit crew, but time it just right, hit the turbo and you can knock people out of the pits mid service! Nothing more gratifying that seeing your friend time his pit stop perfectly, run out of gas just as he pits then knock him out causing him to loose because he had to do a whole lap without gas (or burn through a bunch of nitros).

Also, I made an adapter to run Off Road in the Indy Heat cab. I have both the regular and track pak version of OR, that with Indy Heat makes this monster cab a value space wise.

This cab is good fun all around.

 

[discgolfer72]

i got this one free but it was to far gone

the whole bottom half was like paper mache it was so water damaged
but i did put what was left of solid cab to good use

 

[jalpert]

Okay, I hate hacked up cabs as much as the next guy, but that's pretty f@#*ing awesome...

 

[discgolfer72]

Okay, I hate hacked up cabs as much as the next guy, but that's pretty f@#*ing awesome...

lol thanks i would have restored the cab but as you can see from the pics when i got it
it had been soaked in water up to the art there was not much left on the cab that was worth saving and since i did not have any controls with it i was like hell might as well save at least some of the cab instead of just burning it

 

[jalpert]

You did the right thing, no doubt.

 

[FullThrottle]

Thanks for the link to the manual!! Very much appreciated!
What is that page w/ the manual? I couldn't get it to load anything else by deleting part of the url, but I suppose its not the end of the world since I now have the manual I was searching for.
I'm hoping to find some parts for mine to make it working 100%, need some steering crap and another main pcb would be very nice!

Yes Dave, got this one from Buck, I'd asked him about it a bunch through the years, he finally caved in. I traded maybe $150 or so worth of parts, two Jamma cabs and some boards, and I'm gonna drudge up a Nintendo cabinet for him and bring it out so he can build his Popeye kit. I think he'd finally given up hope of getting it fixed, he's heard about my driving room and I always had to mention to him how much I liked that game as a kid! I always forget how psycho is road is! If shit ain't strapped perfectly it will be destroyed just going up or down the hill! The road does seem to be much better this year, but DAMN, I can't imagine having to do that in the snow to get to the store or work!!

I love going out to Buck's to play his Electro-Mechanical machines... he's got some really cool ones that I wish I had infinity room and money to try to get. He looks and sounds alot healthier than last visit to him, I think the stress was destroying him but he now seems alot more happy and relaxed.

 

[jalpert]

I had the manual pdf, I don't remember where I got it. I was hosting it privately for you via a service called dropbox which is awesome! Since you have the manual I'll probably remove the link.

Thanks for the link to the manual!! Very much appreciated!
What is that page w/ the manual? I couldn't get it to load anything else by deleting part of the url, but I suppose its not the end of the world since I now have the manual I was searching for.
I'm hoping to find some parts for mine to make it working 100%, need some steering crap and another main pcb would be very nice!

Yes Dave, got this one from Buck, I'd asked him about it a bunch through the years, he finally caved in. I traded maybe $150 or so worth of parts, two Jamma cabs and some boards, and I'm gonna drudge up a Nintendo cabinet for him and bring it out so he can build his Popeye kit. I think he'd finally given up hope of getting it fixed, he's heard about my driving room and I always had to mention to him how much I liked that game as a kid! I always forget how psycho is road is! If shit ain't strapped perfectly it will be destroyed just going up or down the hill! The road does seem to be much better this year, but DAMN, I can't imagine having to do that in the snow to get to the store or work!!

I love going out to Buck's to play his Electro-Mechanical machines... he's got some really cool ones that I wish I had infinity room and money to try to get. He looks and sounds alot healthier than last visit to him, I think the stress was destroying him but he now seems alot more happy and relaxed.

 

[FullThrottle]

Nice... thanks again!!