DeLoreanRide
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Galaga or should I say Gallag. Wtf? Oh well new game
Yesterday I went and looked at a Galaga machine and the guy told me the previous owner had replaced the board. This was obvious because of the jamma adapter and the fact the board didn't fit in the original board holder. After some serious haggling I purchased the game for $250 knowing the game would not accept credits (ie couldn't play it).
I fixed it this morning. All that was wrong was the ground wire for coin switches came disconnected)
This was the problem. One of the orange wires was disconnected on the right switch. That wire is the positive wire for both coin switches so neither had power going to them. nice
I hate when people paint over the side art. The vinyl's are there just painted black. I actually tried removing the black paint but it did not work, I pretty much sanded through the colored ink on the white vinyl as well. Oh well new side art in the future. (on the pic on the right, I masked off the vinyl so I wouldn't sand any of the black paint that I wanted to keep)
So hooray, working galaga, or should I say Gallag?
So about these Jamma Galaga Boards... Is there any documentation on this?
Like dip switch settings perhaps? I've tried messing around with them and in some combinations the game doesn't even work! I have searched this forum, google, and any other source I could think and I havn't found anything.
Now I'm pretty sure mine is the one that was made back in 2002 (or somewhere around there)
I just want to know how to change game settings. Also is it for sure that "Free Play" does not work on these boards? I've heard that mentioned.
Also one other question; does anyone know if the easter egg "no more bad guy's shooting at you" works on these boards. I tried it but I couldn't get it to work; maybe I was doing something wrong. Just curious.
Yesterday I went and looked at a Galaga machine and the guy told me the previous owner had replaced the board. This was obvious because of the jamma adapter and the fact the board didn't fit in the original board holder. After some serious haggling I purchased the game for $250 knowing the game would not accept credits (ie couldn't play it).
I fixed it this morning. All that was wrong was the ground wire for coin switches came disconnected)
This was the problem. One of the orange wires was disconnected on the right switch. That wire is the positive wire for both coin switches so neither had power going to them. nice
I hate when people paint over the side art. The vinyl's are there just painted black. I actually tried removing the black paint but it did not work, I pretty much sanded through the colored ink on the white vinyl as well. Oh well new side art in the future. (on the pic on the right, I masked off the vinyl so I wouldn't sand any of the black paint that I wanted to keep)
So hooray, working galaga, or should I say Gallag?
So about these Jamma Galaga Boards... Is there any documentation on this?
Like dip switch settings perhaps? I've tried messing around with them and in some combinations the game doesn't even work! I have searched this forum, google, and any other source I could think and I havn't found anything.
Now I'm pretty sure mine is the one that was made back in 2002 (or somewhere around there)
I just want to know how to change game settings. Also is it for sure that "Free Play" does not work on these boards? I've heard that mentioned.
Also one other question; does anyone know if the easter egg "no more bad guy's shooting at you" works on these boards. I tried it but I couldn't get it to work; maybe I was doing something wrong. Just curious.
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