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Todd31

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I sold my soul for this. Tough to get pics where it sits atm but I am so excited I just had to share. I grabbed it from a local collector in a trade for one of my grails. It came with a new cpo, 3d marquee, and bezel. I guess I know what I am doing tomorrow. :)

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Looks good. We need to start a DOT tournament. Is that new marquee NOS or a repro? I need an non-yellow one.



I haven't even unwrapped it yet but it is repro I believe. I don't think I will be tourney ready for a while. I suck at this game.
 
Looks good. We need to start a DOT tournament. Is that new marquee NOS or a repro? I need an non-yellow one.

No one repros the lenticular marquee. Only the glass overlay.

Great score!! LOOKS FANTASTICO! Cool game.
 
Yeah, it was just the glass. :( I would love to see someone take on the marquee in the future, I bet it would cost a lot to make but would also sell for a lot.
 
Congrats on your pickup Todd! I think you know my feelings on this game, it just kicks ass! My EDOT gets a lot of love from visitors and people that aren't in our hobby seem to love the gameplay on this one over some of the others in my collection.

And the upright DOT is the gateway drug to wanting the EDOT :)
 
Congrats on your pickup Todd! I think you know my feelings on this game, it just kicks ass! My EDOT gets a lot of love from visitors and people that aren't in our hobby seem to love the gameplay on this one over some of the others in my collection.

And the upright DOT is the gateway drug to wanting the EDOT :)

Hey thanks. Yeah, if you aren't buried in yours when you die, someday I would love to have yours. Until that day 10 or so years from now, I will have to make due with the awesomeness of the upright. :)

Did anybody ever succeed at a plastic blacklight cover repro plastic?

Thanks
 
Did anybody ever succeed at a plastic blacklight cover repro plastic?

Thanks

Rich made them about a year ago, and mine worked out great! I know there was some bad ones, but the new ones just looked sweet... if they weren't warped (pic before new CPO) :

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Congrats on your pickup Todd! I think you know my feelings on this game, it just kicks ass! My EDOT gets a lot of love from visitors and people that aren't in our hobby seem to love the gameplay on this one over some of the others in my collection.

And the upright DOT is the gateway drug to wanting the EDOT :)

I don't think owning an EDOT is that much of an add if you modifed your DOT and added the speech board. Converting am upright over finding a factory chopped EDOT is a plus as it has the 3d marquee.

if you need the blacklight and cpo cover, email backto80s. He bought a set and has yet to find a cab. Last time I spoke to him, he was thinking of selling them.
 
I don't think owning an EDOT is that much of an add if you modifed your DOT and added the speech board. Converting am upright over finding a factory chopped EDOT is a plus as it has the 3d marquee.

if you need the blacklight and cpo cover, email backto80s. He bought a set and has yet to find a cab. Last time I spoke to him, he was thinking of selling them.

I have sent him a pm. Thanks for the heads up. I am going to have to look into the speech setup for this. I didn't know that was available. I imagine a speech board would be hard to find.
 
I have sent him a pm. Thanks for the heads up. I am going to have to look into the speech setup for this. I didn't know that was available. I imagine a speech board would be hard to find.


yeah, not an easy find. Pretty sure there is info to convert a pinball speech board to work. You will need to change eproms. Not sure if a panning top board is critical. I have never tried it, but I think a few have been able to do it. I was lucky enough to get a water damage EDOT and I gutted it and put it it in by DOT.
 
There's a few threads on here on wiring in a S&T that are pretty thorough, and I was able to wire in a -5V aux board into my UDOT and can do a write up on that if there is interest. With that board, you won't need a switcher.
 
I don't think owning an EDOT is that much of an add if you modifed your DOT and added the speech board. Converting am upright over finding a factory chopped EDOT is a plus as it has the 3d marquee.

The EDOT is a huge difference as it creates an "environment' around the player with chasers and rear speakers.. trust me on this one. It is much more than the speech! With my space limitations, I'd be all over an upright with speech if it provided an even close experience.

I played the EDOT in the arcades back in the 80's and the standard upright just seemed like an oddity to me when I first saw them also. My bet would be that you didn't play the EDOT back in the day...
 
The EDOT is a huge difference as it creates an "environment' around the player with chasers and rear speakers.. trust me on this one. It is much more than the speech! With my space limitations, I'd be all over an upright with speech if it provided an even close experience.

I played the EDOT in the arcades back in the 80's and the standard upright just seemed like an oddity to me when I first saw them also. My bet would be that you didn't play the EDOT back in the day...

Hey, I played both when they were still in the arcades. I don't think its much of a difference. I never got the chaser light thing. They were usually broken and did not add much. Its just like sinistar cockpit, star wars cockpit, and red baron cockpit. the sit in experience is overated. That why I sold/plan to sell mine. Not worth the wasted space. I don't own an omega race cockpit and I passed on a missile command sit in for the same reason. Other than driving games, unless the game added something like motion to afterburner, I don't see the point.

My cab is wired with the rear speakers. I think the best solution would be to put them on poles high and behind the game. The other option, I was thinking of removing the coin door and mounting them there.
 
There's a few threads on here on wiring in a S&T that are pretty thorough, and I was able to wire in a -5V aux board into my UDOT and can do a write up on that if there is interest. With that board, you won't need a switcher.


did you use the pin speech board or did you find an edot one? I think pics and advice would be of interest to quite a few. Especially if you used the pin board.
 
Hey, I played both when they were still in the arcades. I don't think its much of a difference. I never got the chaser light thing. They were usually broken and did not add much. Its just like sinistar cockpit, star wars cockpit, and red baron cockpit. the sit in experience is overated. That why I sold/plan to sell mine. Not worth the wasted space. I don't own an omega race cockpit and I passed on a missile command sit in for the same reason. Other than driving games, unless the game added something like motion to afterburner, I don't see the point.

My cab is wired with the rear speakers. I think the best solution would be to put them on poles high and behind the game. The other option, I was thinking of removing the coin door and mounting them there.

I guess this would be a good thing to feel this way! Man, I'd love to get rid of my Star Wars upright for a 25" cockpit.. but I don't think it will ever happen. I think EDOT and SW are the only 2 cockpits I'd care to own.

I was addicted to DOT back in the day, so to me the nostalgia feeling is more prevalent with the EDOT. But I love the gameplay and had an upright for a while (only until I could land an EDOT which took several years).
 
did you use the pin speech board or did you find an edot one? I think pics and advice would be of interest to quite a few. Especially if you used the pin board.

It's the EDOT one, it was installed before I got the game. I just installed the -5V Aux board to bypass the need for a switcher (which I thought was leading to an excessive hum, but actually wasn't). I just took some pics and found my notes, so I'll start work on my write up.
 
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