hard to find pinouts.

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pinouts im looking for :

damn it i have looked and looked and looked.

space attack 2 - Zenitone-Microsec Ltd./Video Games (UK) LTD
cosmic monsters - universal
cosmic critters - universal / artic ATW

am also looking for IREM board M10 and M15 hardware pinouts

these boards are used for the following games :

Andromeda 55
Green Beret
Head On
IPM Invader
Sky Chuter
Space Beam

am happy to purchase any original pinout sheets too.
 
I would start with the Cosmic Guerilla manual, available at crazykong.com, the guerilla and monsters were from the same year, likely sharing the same pinout...

best of luck,

paris
 
He's a skim reader. :D

Your post wasn't very clear to start...I had to read it twice.

No help on the pinouts, sorry.
 
i have no idea why modessitt posted green beret and head on / invinco pinouts ?

ughhhh.. totally different boards.

Sorry. Wasn't aware that those pinouts weren't the same as the IREM pinouts you were looking for...
 
not really :(
space attack and space attack 2 are two different boards lol

but the schematics will help me with other boards thou :)

space attack is made by sega
space attack 2 is made by Zenitone-Microsec Ltd./Video Games (UK) LTD
 
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anyone got Cosmic Guerilla pinouts ? i cant find them on google anywhere.

man this is so frustrating , im starting to slowly understand why so many people give up.

there just isnt enough information on a global scale due to the fact prob less then 1 out of 50 arcade collectors dont use klov or prob the internet making it harder to source needed info.
then you have those who prob have the needed info but cant be assed getting them lol

i have over 300 original pinout sheets , if anyone has been looking for a particular game hit me up.. i will go over them tonight and list what i have to help others out.
 
Are any of these boards vector (aka X/Y) boards? If not you should be able to figure them out yourself fairly easy. GND and +5 are the first two really easy pins to figure out. +12 would be next. GND is pretty obvious and +5 is usually the last pin on most of the TTL IC's on your boards.

What I used to do when I didnt know a boards pinout (been doing this since WAY before the internet was any help) was to connect the board to GND and +5 to get it operating. With a monitor near by I'd figure out where the color outputs from the board were by touching the red input wire from the monitor to each pin until I found one that was generating a picture. Once you have all of the color outputs attached finding the sync is easy. After you have the monitor up and running take a piece of wire and attach it to ground and attach the other end to a 555 or 194 light bulb. With the other end of the light bulb tap each pin on the edge connector to see what it does (when you find the coin pin and player start pins things get easy). The light bulb will keep you from frying your board.

Cross the amplifier IC online to find which pin is +12 and trace it back to the edge connector. The other pin(s) that run from the amp IC to the edge will be the speaker output.

The same applies to black and white games but I think you have to do something like tie one color together with the sync wire to get it to sync up. Its been 20+ years since I had to figure out a B/W board so I may not be remembering this correctly.
 
wiring up color games is easy , yeah i know about finding the ground and 5 volt rails then using my multi meter to find the RGB and sync.

these are all B & W games thou.. a bit more tricky and i dont really want to second guess.

finding the ground on older B&W boards is easy but can be tricky when trying to located the +5.. and even more tricky tryiong to find the -5

on some B&W games not having the -5 can do damage.
 
space attack is made by sega
space attack 2 is made by Zenitone-Microsec Ltd./Video Games (UK) LTD

The manual on the link I posted is not Space Attack by Sega, it's Space Attack by Video Games GmbH.
 
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