Galaga - explosions only

[texasmame]

+1 to this.

- James

Agreed. I contacted him before I even started this thread but haven't heard. He's not logged on today as of yet, so just in a holding pattern now. Yeah, on the boardset that came with the game, it had a couple of legs broken off some chips and someone had attempted at repairing those legs. I left those chips alone and cleaned the rest - breaking off legs of some of the other chips in the process! I thought that was pretty odd since I've never broken a leg before but, now that you say these chips are pretty crappy, makes perfect sense.

 

[That80sGuy]

If you have a good chip puller and can be careful .. its not that hard to pull clean and reseat socketed chips.

 

[channelmanic]

If you have a good chip puller and can be careful .. its not that hard to pull clean and reseat socketed chips.

They will still break. Galaga, Pole Position (and PP II), Dig Dug, Bosconian, and all the other games that use those crappy Namco custom chips are WELL known for this.

It's the same thing with those crappy General Instruments mask ROMs on Galaxian, Pac Man, and Rally-X that have the same types of chip legs except that with those mask ROMs you can replace them with EPROMs. You can't replace the customs with anything else but other customs - hopefully the type without the silver plated legs but those are only found on other boards that need repairs too.

RJ

 

[That80sGuy]

I've taken a Galaga board and removed, cleaned and reseated all the socketed chips. Not one got bent or broken. If you take your time and are very careful it can be done.

 

[channelmanic]

I've taken a Galaga board and removed, cleaned and reseated all the socketed chips. Not one got bent or broken. If you take your time and are very careful it can be done.

So have I, but the norm is that legs break. I don't want to get a n00b's hopes up.

 

[texasmame]

Well, I haven't done a thing to the board yet, rather than curse it.

Been in touch with the seller and are discussing options.

Thx for all the input here!

 

[kb0jjn]

I've taken a Galaga board and removed, cleaned and reseated all the socketed chips. Not one got bent or broken. If you take your time and are very careful it can be done.

I have limited luck with this but many time when I remove the chips from the old sockets the pins break. The two worst are the 51xx chip with lots of fragile pins and the sometimes repairable 07xx chip.