Monday haul for Mitsurugi-w

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So Monday I drove a rental truck up to Raleigh to pick up a few machines.

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Two of the machines were at my brother's house. He had been holding the TMNT there for about a year and a half. He picked the Spiderman up for me a few months ago.

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The TMNT works but the CPO was replaced poorly with a repro overlay and is already peeling up. The side art is much more faded than it appears in the photo. All four coin slots are tied together so if the credit up it gives a credit to all of the players. Will fix that first and work on the art later.

The Spiderman had a bad pcb but I have a working one. Someone replaced the marquee with a piece of tinted plexi and the marquee bracket is solder molding of some sort. The control panel overlay is some generic garbage. The art is pretty good. The Sega logo is torn on both sides. The sides are better than they look in the picture. They do need to be cleaned good.

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My friend Joe (Mugicha at the Neo forums) picked up a few black and white cabs for me and had been holding them in his garage for a few weeks.

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The Midway Asteroid is the roughest of the two. They both had some moisture drip on the tops at some time. That's why you see the rust running down the inside of the glass on Asteroid. The top is two different pieces of wood with a metal bar across the top. It leaked a little through the gap between the two pieces. Both could use new bases.

I plugged in the Asteroid and the monitor fired up. No game video or sounds. I will work on it more later on. The Midway TV Basketball is untested and is in storage right now. I'll work on that one after I'm done with Asteroid.

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The stars on the front actually stick out of the cab. So cool and retro...

Yes all of these cabs are dirty and need to be wiped down and cleaned out. :)
 
The last thing I picked up was this change machine:

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I had someone deliver it from Asheboro to Durham at my bros house to save time and money. The fee I paid was less than the gas would have cost me.

It is a Rowe BC-9A. It had some issues but I am slowly working those out. It only has one hopper in it which is ok for my tokens but I do want to get two more hoppers. All of the lights were burned out causing none of the optos to work and register the coins. That's fixed now. Gonna work on the bill acceptor now...

Anyone else have this model? More importantly anyone know where to find the manual?! Can't find one online.
 
I heard those change machines are heavy as all hell. I can't say how many dollars i fed into that model over the years at Time Out.
 
That asteroid is very nice, should be a fun restore. They really spent some time making those cabs look cool back in the day.
 
nice spider-man! wish someone would repro that art and not just the man himself.
 
Man, 4 great games as far as I'm concerned. Cool that somebody who knows how to fix them up got their hands on them, so they'll make it another 30 years. Good stuff, congratulations on the haul!
 
I heard those change machines are heavy as all hell.

You heard correctly. I had to unload all of these by myself. I put two machines in my house, the Asteroid and changer, to work on. I wanted to park the truck where I could just pull the ramp out onto the porch and walk the machines right from the truck in the front door. Some asshole parked their car right in front of my house so I couldn't line the ramp up straight. I had the changer on the handtruck and when I got to the porch one of the wheels came off the side of the ramp since I don't have a big enough porch to pull the machine off the ramp and then straighten out. I was almost certain that changer was going over the side of the porch...

That asteroid is very nice, should be a fun restore. They really spent some time making those cabs look cool back in the day.

They are pretty cool. And they are light as hell!

nice spider-man! wish someone would repro that art and not just the man himself.

I know. They have everything but the sideart. I need the bezel and the CPO.

Man, 4 great games as far as I'm concerned. Cool that somebody who knows how to fix them up got their hands on them, so they'll make it another 30 years. Good stuff, congratulations on the haul!

Thanks! No pressure to get these working! Lol. I will do everything in my power to get them going. They are complete so I have that going for me! I've never worked on a black and white, before. The pcb connector is really weird. I *think* I can replace it with a molex type... These came out in '73 and '74 respectively so its more like 'another 40 years'. :)

That asteroid machine is AWESOME!

It'll be even more awesomer once I get it working!
 
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You'll get them... in a lot of ways, the black and white ones are easier to work on, the schematics are so simple and straight forward a lot of times it's just something obvious, like if the video isn't working, there might be 1 chip that all the video comes out of, swap it out and it fixes it, etc.

I feel ya on the jerk parking in the way. Everytime I get ready to move something somebody takes the wrong parking spot, or something. Grrrrrrr!
 
Basically at a standstill. I rebuilt the monitor on Asteroid and I *think* it is working but there is no life from the pcb. I found someone in Europe that can fix it but money is an issue right now. I owe $12,000 in taxes to Uncle Sam and the State of North Carolina.

None of the other machines can leave storage because my brother blew up the truck combined with the fact that I only have room remaining for 1 project at a time. So if I work on another machine the Asteroid will need to go back into storage and be switched with another.

It would help if anyone in the US would work on the black and white raster game pcbs.
 
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