Dragon's Lair 866 found! Well It was a DL :)

I think your right! When I get home I'll try them all. Ha. It sure plays good right now. But I haven't tried all the roms. It always starts with him running into the castle. Haven't even tried space ace that much yet. I was focused I beating dragons lair.
 
I can't wait to get mine fixed up. I'm working on parts now, Shawn has helped me out a lot already.I'm hoping with what I have already in the cab that I can get it going by this summer. DL is one of my all time favorite games and I never thought I'd actually be able to own one...so I'm just super excited to get it fixed up. My goal this year is to complete resto of at least 4 machines by the end of summer.
 
Ok this is what I found.


On the LaserDisc, there are a few unused scenes, like the drawbridge scene that every home port has included since then, that were only used in the European EEPROM board. The US ROM board never used these rooms, so America only got about 3/4ths of the bargain that Europe got. The cabinets differ as well. In the US cabinet, the score/lives P1/lives P2 is constantly displayed on a LCD numerical display in the cabinet. The European cabinet from Atari moved this to a separate screen after each level. Mirrored levels also occur more often in the US board on the account of the unused scenes needing to be replaced.
Revisional Differences

In later releases of the game's EEPROM board, the US version would eventually get the drawbridge scene by revision E. Revisions A-D all removed the drawbridge scene from the beginning and started the game with Dirk entering the castle. Revision F had the scenes all in one set order to avoid LaserDisc players being ruined by the constant skipping needed for the game's random scene orders seen in earlier revisions. However, the unused rooms that eventually would become used by the PC-DVD port of Dragon's Lair in 1997 are still on the laserdisc, but placed at the end of the laserdisc to avoid the game skipping said unused scene before going to the next used one, making the game seem both fluent and constant.
 
I have the the Merlin board just like you, but after watching your video I see the difference. I use the Enhanced option in the menu. Same with Space Ace. When I tried it your way, it skips the drawbridge! Space Ace plays the same either way.
 
Cool. I haven't tried that yet. Just having so much fun I haven't tried anything else yet. Just about have it ready to sell. Then I'm going to make one more some day.
 
You're going to SELL IT??

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Now that's funny. Well I have been saving parts for over 10 years now, so I have extra boards and parts. Enough to build one more. And I have a second Dragons lair cab, that's not as nice as this one I'm selling. But it's a dragons lair one cabinet playing dragon's lair 2. So to be honest with you I kind of look forward to making at least one more. Hey I like building games. I haven't applied the side art yet, so I can sell it as a Dragons Lair or it would give someone the option to make it a space ace. Dragon's lair is my grail game. It's the one game I always looked for in any arcade when I was a kid. I don't mind sticking one out into the world that I brought back to life. Best part is if I don't get what I want for it I can just keep it. Plus I have always wanted a Starship troopers pinball game. This might be my way to get it.
 
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