DART STAR 2000 help

CougarKev

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Hi everyone. Just picked up a nice 1995 Dart Star 2000. I was all excited to play today when I got it home but it is not working right. First the bullseye is not registering at all and when I hit 17, it registers 19. I took the back off and there is a rubber mat and behind it a plastic matrix type thing. Do you think that is bad? I cleaned it really good but it is still not working right. The serial # is 3211 T. Same as the monitor. Everything else seems to work fine. I did a search for this machine and very little came up. The guys at Medalist in Pacific, WA do not carry part for this old of machine. Let me know if there is something else I can try or a place I might be able to buy this plastic matrix. Thanks.

Kevin
 
Not sure

Hi Ken, not sure what I am supposed to do with this. I tinkered with it some more and now only the bullseye is not working. It seems to press in and out ok but nothing registers. You think a DIP setting is off? Thanks

Kevin
 
Make sure the particular brand of target head installed in your machine matches the dip switch settings.

Be sure the target head has been properly disassembled, cleaned, broken dart tips removed, cracked segments replaced, and reassembled.
 
Uho

I tried changing the DIP setting on a couple of them and now the machine won't come on at all. Monitor just shows a white screen. I put the DIP back to where it was and still nothing. What happened to it?
 
Nothing

Checked it out and everything is plugged in. The lights on the side come on and the monitor comes on but it is blank. Why would changing 1 pin do this and changing it back it won't go back to working? I hate electronics. ;-). Might have to go get a blackboard and keep track of our own scoring. Thanks
 
Weird

Here is something weird. I pulled out the buttons plug (p1,p2,p3, etc) and the monitor came on. I then plugged it back in and it made a loud humming noise. When I pull it out partially it tries to work. Do you think that little flat plug is going bad?
 
I' don't know where to post but I would like to upgrade or improve a dart star 2000. Any help would be great.
 
I don't know where to post, but I would like to upgrade or improve a Dart Star 2000. Any help would be great.

Well, originally the factory shipped them with 12" amber screened monochrome monitors. The gameboard does generate full color graphics and you can use a color monitor or tv set with a composite video input jack. If you use the RCA video output jack you can feed the signal to a tv set's video input jack or to a color security camera monitor. With an appropriate adapter cable made, you can feed the video output from the special Molex .100 video output connector at the bottom of the gameboard to either a CGA computer monitor or to a regular arcade monitor that accepts positive sync.

In all cases where you want color video output, you must set the gameboard dip switches for "color" AND move a jumper to "color" to get full color graphics.
 
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