DECO vs Midway BurgerTime Board

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Hello,

I need help figuring out the differences between a midway burgertime pcb and a DECO pcb. Attached is a photo of mine. It have a DECO logo on it but it came out of a midway cab. Does have one have a pic of the two side by side?
 

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Thats the midway board.
I have never seen one in person but I believe the deco set is a card rack system. Can anyone confirm?
 
I think what he is asking is the difference between the pcbs. I think some are labeled deco and some bally/midway that go into the bally/midway cabs.


Yes, deco cabinet pcb is a card cage, dongle, and cassette.
 
Yea I just on unpacked it and the title screen reads "data east manufactured by Bally/Midway.
 
Agreed that is a crazy system. No wonder why they are hard to find.
 
I think what he is asking is the difference between the pcbs. I think some are labeled deco and some bally/midway that go into the bally/midway cabs.


Yes, deco cabinet pcb is a card cage, dongle, and cassette.

Not entirely true, there are some Burgertime PCB's labeled Data East that are not the "Deco" version requiring the cassette. I have one....I have not studied the boards for any differences other than the manufactures name screen printed on the PCB.
 
Every picture of the two board sets like the photo of mine has the DECO logo on each of the board. I think the confusion comes from people calling the two board set a "midway" board but when looking at it the DECO logo is still on the board. The naming convention comes from the cab style or that's what it seems to me anyways because the Data East cab was completely different.
 
You have the Deco. I had a Burgertime that had the Deco PCB in it. I tried a Midway PCB in my cab and the graphics were messed up. The deco has a different video connection. If you notice the two blue wires running to the video pins on the edge connector. The midway pcb doesn't have the two blue wires.
 
http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=913

interesting and ridiculously over-elaborate piece of machinery for its time. lol

they are hard to find due to the poor cassette system.. Ops killed them. Widels multi game kit makes it intersting. Peter peppers ice cream factory as well as a few others owes their existence to the deco system.
 
You have the Deco. I had a Burgertime that had the Deco PCB in it. I tried a Midway PCB in my cab and the graphics were messed up. The deco has a different video connection. If you notice the two blue wires running to the video pins on the edge connector. The midway pcb doesn't have the two blue wires.

Thats a mod to change the type of sync.
 
The DECO (non-tape vesion) and the Midway version PCBs are interchangeable. I use the same bench harness for working on both. I've never picked them apart for the minute differences, but they're pretty much identical.....one has Bally/Midway logo, the other DECO.

The edge connector is slightly "off" in size on one (I can't remember which), so care needs to be taken when plugging them in to a game's harness. It's very easy to be misaligned and you'll end up with garbage on the screen (or worse, a blown motherboard).

Edward
 
The DECO (non-tape vesion) and the Midway version PCBs are interchangeable. I use the same bench harness for working on both. I've never picked them apart for the minute differences, but they're pretty much identical.....one has Bally/Midway logo, the other DECO.

The edge connector is slightly "off" in size on one (I can't remember which), so care needs to be taken when plugging them in to a game's harness. It's very easy to be misaligned and you'll end up with garbage on the screen (or worse, a blown motherboard).

Edward

The DECO (non-tape version) edge connector is just a hair wider.....
 
Ok so I just picked up another board.

The board that was in the cab when I bought it is a DECO branded board with the two "blue wires". The board that I just bought a midway branded board with no "blue wires".

I had to remove one of the keys in the connector so that the midway board would fit but that's all and it works fine.

Just wanted to post this for future BurgerTime restorations and projects.
 
I think it depends on how the monitor sync is wired or what type monitor it is. I tried a board without the mod in my cab and it wouldnt sync. I added the mod and it worked fine.
 
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