Finally Picked up Another DK Cocktail!

Maybe it's a regional thing but I feel like DK cocktails are one of the most commonly available games of all time.

There has almost never been a time when I'm looking for a game that one isn't available.

In fact *checks FB marketplace* yep, there is one for sale 45 minutes from my house right now as I write this. LOL.
Well, lookie here. Right after I buy this one, two more Nintendo cocktails pop up in the Minneapolis area. I wouldn't pay these prices, but at least they're both on marketplace at the same time. Crazy.
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OK looking at braze's site, it looks like 3P on the 2 board stack is actually 5K on the video board of the 4 board stack. I will clean and reseat that one and see what happens.
 
OK looking at braze's site, it looks like 3P on the 2 board stack is actually 5K on the video board of the 4 board stack. I will clean and reseat that one and see what happens.
Cleaned it and reseated it and man was it dusty. The chip, the socket, everything. In fact, this whole board was covered in a layer of dust, mostly on everything that was facing up, but there's also sections of the board that just seem to be absolutely covered in dust. Must be from the internal fan. I also forgot how many damn little connectors there are. It'll be a wonder if I can find them all and get them all reconnected when I put it back in.
 
No, that is the CPU board. The video board is below the CLK board.
Right, as you can see from the posts afterward, I figured that out. When I was first looking, this was the only 3P I could find. Then I went back to braze's site and cross referenced the two board chips to the four board chips. It's 5K that I'm looking at.
 
Cleaned it and reseated it and man was it dusty. The chip, the socket, everything. In fact, this whole board was covered in a layer of dust, mostly on everything that was facing up, but there's also sections of the board that just seem to be absolutely covered in dust. Must be from the internal fan. I also forgot how many damn little connectors there are. It'll be a wonder if I can find them all and get them all reconnected when I put it back in.
I'm betting in my brain that this just might fix your issue. Seems to be the case often enough.
 
I'm betting in my brain that this just might fix your issue. Seems to be the case often enough.
I hope so. But having owned three or four of these four board stacks in the past, I would actually love to get this thing bulletproofed so I don't have to worry about random sounds playing, booting issues, graphics glitches and the screen freezing up, etc.
 
OK, so I pulled both chips on the video board, cleaned the sockets, cleaned the chip legs, replaced them, plugged everything back in and this is the screen I get.

IMG_3036.jpegSo looks like I'll need a new chip at least. And if anybody's got a picture of how the wiring all routes inside the cocktail cabinet that would be awesome. It just seems like a fucking rats nest right now and I'm trying to figure out where all this wiring should go. At least the game is working fine and so is the sound.
 
Oh, and when the game is playing and in the intermission scenes, this is exactly what it looks like except the colors on donkey Kong himself (on the intermission screen) look inverted.

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Cleaned it and reseated it and man was it dusty. The chip, the socket, everything. In fact, this whole board was covered in a layer of dust, mostly on everything that was facing up, but there's also sections of the board that just seem to be absolutely covered in dust. Must be from the internal fan. I also forgot how many damn little connectors there are. It'll be a wonder if I can find them all and get them all reconnected when I put it back in.
All four board stacks are cursed in my opinion. Wait until you get the shakes, unresolvable. Believe me I sent my board back to Mike 2-3 times, he replaced the video board entirely and it still does it. Tried hooking the game up to a pvm and other monitors to rule out the monitor, it's literally unfixable though. Tried different power supplies and power wires. Not bad potentiometers, holds can be adjusted perfect and it'll do it. Sometimes it'll be worse than others, sometimes it'll get better temporarily if you play with vr1 and 2 on the pcb but it always comes back once you get it. You can replace vr 1 and 2 but it does nothing. There's some kind of bad chip messing with the sync but it's beyond my level of comprehension to figure out. Mike replaced all the rams, still did it and he got frustrated I think and replaced the whole video board for it still to do it. You'll get this one running again though with some new data roms.
If someone can figure this out I'll buy you a beer "metaphorically" though
 
Does anybody know what key opens the coin box? The Takigen 2150 key fits but it won't turn. Not sure what the hell is going on here. But I'd like to get these quarters out so I can play some horse races with my kids.
 
I love seeing those Nintendo white-tops getting some love.

Also, I don't understand the wrist pain stuff with this. Are people really trying to rest their palms flat on these? You gotta hold the joystick different.
I generally just put the thin part of joystick in between the knuckles of my pointer and middle finger with palm facing the ground and let the weight of my hand sorta rest on the joystick ball. Works fine for me and my wrist.
 
So I sent a message to @mhcapps but haven't heard anything back. I just need two chips burned for positions 5H and 5K on the four board stack video board.
 
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