New pickup (Lunar Lander)

Right half of screen collapsed again. Swapped output pairs and it stayed at right half. Pulled boards, tested everything, relflowed headers. Back up, we'll see if it stays up. So the -02 roms are genius, in Free Play it's 900 units of fuel regardless of what you have the value set for. Need to take it out of freeplay to see that it's showing 1800 per coin. :rolleyes:
 
Picked this up yesterday off Craigslist. Got it working this morning. I doubt I'll have room for it long term as I just got a new motorcycle that I need to make room for ... the wife gave me special dispensation to temporarily locate it in the living room so I can play it a bit as I've never played it before.

Only odd thing is why they drilled the hole in the front and relocated the interlock, since the coin door isn't locked. Odd. Other than this it's super clean.

Nice pickup man! Still can't believe that was listed for bill
 
Thanks Iggy. Interesting game. I can see why it wasn't popular in the arcades as it must have been a real quarter muncher. The 50 fuel point bonus isn't anywhere enough to keep the game going, I've not yet been able to get more than 4 consecutive landings on the easy level. it would work better if there were ways to earn more significant fuel bonuses. According to the Operator Manual, 50 is the max. I'm pretty sure it has the V1 roms so I don't have the option of bumping fuel upto 1800 units. I'll burn v2 when I get a chance. It doesn't seem like a game that works great on free play and can see why someone added the front button. Or maybe I'm missing something?

I've never known about ROM differences... but there IS a trick you can do to get more fuel:

(Had to go look at the Dip Settings to make sure I got it right)

Set it for 900 fuel per coin...
Set the RIGHT coin to 6 credits per coin(1 and 2 both OFF)
Use right coin slot only(5400 Fuel).

I discovered this when the machine was still "on location"(before it was mine). I had noticed that putting the quarter/token into the right slot gave much more fuel than the left. I had thought it was a quirk of the game, but it was actually in the settings. I'm not even sure the original owners knew about that.

Right half of screen collapsed again. Swapped output pairs and it stayed at right half. Pulled boards, tested everything, relflowed headers. Back up, we'll see if it stays up. So the -02 roms are genius, in Free Play it's 900 units of fuel regardless of what you have the value set for. Need to take it out of freeplay to see that it's showing 1800 per coin. :rolleyes:

On my "High Score" board, I tell everyone to put 2 coins in, so that the fuel maxes out, and they aren't allowed to "re-up", so that there is a set standard on the amount of fuel available. With the base amount of fuel a constant, high scores are comparably legit.
 
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