Indeed, I bought this game, non-working, over a year ago. It has seen 3 different locations, yet never made a peep; literally.
So yesterday, a fellow Klover came here and picked up the PP machine I had for sale, and that gave me some inspiration. Add to the fact that I had never dropped a quarter into this title, nor saw it being played, I felt it was finally time to fix it.
Upon looking over all the connections, it seemed that everything was hooked up properly, so I flipped the switch; the marquee light lit up, and there was a glow at the neck of the WG 4900, but that was it.
Upon prodding around with a DMM, it seemed that the switching PS was putting out some bogus numbers; furthermore I noticed that the red light indicating that the PS was getting power was not lit. So I verified that it indeed was getting 115 +/- volts, then ran to my house and got a new switcher.
Installed the new piece, and it came to life! But there was no audio and red seemed to be missing from the monitor. Started re-seating connections, and wala! It made noise and the monitor colors were correct!
I let the game run about 4 hours last night, playing it intermittently and nary a problem. The handling of the car sorta reminds me of Outrun, though it has been a while since I have played that game. The pit stop element is cool - kinda sweet doing 300+ kpm while on fire!!
And one thing I have noticed, 9 times out of 10, it rains while racing at Monaco.....
Now it's time to give it a bath, and then try to find space at my house for it! ha ha ha
Oh yea, the game is Continental Circuit/Circus.
So yesterday, a fellow Klover came here and picked up the PP machine I had for sale, and that gave me some inspiration. Add to the fact that I had never dropped a quarter into this title, nor saw it being played, I felt it was finally time to fix it.
Upon looking over all the connections, it seemed that everything was hooked up properly, so I flipped the switch; the marquee light lit up, and there was a glow at the neck of the WG 4900, but that was it.
Upon prodding around with a DMM, it seemed that the switching PS was putting out some bogus numbers; furthermore I noticed that the red light indicating that the PS was getting power was not lit. So I verified that it indeed was getting 115 +/- volts, then ran to my house and got a new switcher.
Installed the new piece, and it came to life! But there was no audio and red seemed to be missing from the monitor. Started re-seating connections, and wala! It made noise and the monitor colors were correct!
I let the game run about 4 hours last night, playing it intermittently and nary a problem. The handling of the car sorta reminds me of Outrun, though it has been a while since I have played that game. The pit stop element is cool - kinda sweet doing 300+ kpm while on fire!!
And one thing I have noticed, 9 times out of 10, it rains while racing at Monaco.....
Now it's time to give it a bath, and then try to find space at my house for it! ha ha ha
Oh yea, the game is Continental Circuit/Circus.
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