New game (to me) brought back from the dead

Robomayhem

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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.
 

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Give it a bath? It looks great! Glad to hear it was simple fixes & nothing major. So is that version actually 3-D or what?
 
Give it a bath? It looks great! Glad to hear it was simple fixes & nothing major. So is that version actually 3-D or what?

It is. It uses liquid crystal shutter glasses. You can turn off the 3D mode with a button on the control panel if you don't like 3D or just don't want to use it.

Cool game. I really need to get the steering wheel fixed on mine. It's missing the tension spring and the optic board is flaky.

The last track, Japan, is really fun because it's long and you pretty much have to go balls out the entire run without hitting anything or slowing down in order to finish. The checkpoint times are that tight. The only saving grace is that Japan is relatively low traffic. There aren't as many other cars in the race. Best part of the game is that you get only one shot at Japan, no continues. Game is over after your one try on that last track, so it's do or die.
 
It is. It uses liquid crystal shutter glasses. You can turn off the 3D mode with a button on the control panel if you don't like 3D or just don't want to use it.

Cool game. I really need to get the steering wheel fixed on mine. It's missing the tension spring and the optic board is flaky.

The last track, Japan, is really fun because it's long and you pretty much have to go balls out the entire run without hitting anything or slowing down in order to finish. The checkpoint times are that tight. The only saving grace is that Japan is relatively low traffic. There aren't as many other cars in the race. Best part of the game is that you get only one shot at Japan, no continues. Game is over after your one try on that last track, so it's do or die.

Yep, just found that out about the Japan track. Went balls out, into a tree haha But no continue.. :004_scry:

Interesting to note the differences between the Japan track (Suzuka) in CC, and the Suzuka track in PPII.
 
OK, here it is quickly wiped down, swept off.

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Some creative work with paint markers, and she'll look nice beside my PPII.

And for sure I was lucky that the fix was simple! :)
 
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