keithsarcade
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Couldnt pass this up. Saw this listing on CL (yes, every game I own I found on CL) for a working DK for $300. 2 hours away but hell, not a bad price. I contact the seller for more photos and details. Game looks great and he informs me that it has a sound issue. He claims it would crackle after a few minutes of play and then lose sound completely. Well after hearing that I was able to talk him down to $260 and I'm heading towards KC to pick this thing up.
Get there and sure enough, no sound. Everything else checks out aside from no marquee lamp (of course) and a missing monitor bracket. DK goes in the Saturn and its another 2 hours back home.
Rain lets up long enough for me to get it inside. I find that the sound wire had been cut and stripped, not connected to anything. Tap it in and it sounds beautiful. Played it for an hour last night, its been on most of the day and it still sounds great. I can only guess that the guy had this wire stuffed into the connector and had a bad connection. $15 dollars in parts for a new marquee lamp assembly and misc. hardware for a proper monitor mount. So $275 total plus gas and MB has some company now. Wish they were all this cheap & easy.
Has minor glitches (which Ill address later) but looks, plays and sound great (even got a bottle of touch up paint which has already come into play). Also has an 8-way joystick (yuck), well be replacing that pretty soon.
Somewhere down the road, I'd like to find an economical way to have this play both DK and DK Jr., any ideas?
Get there and sure enough, no sound. Everything else checks out aside from no marquee lamp (of course) and a missing monitor bracket. DK goes in the Saturn and its another 2 hours back home.
Rain lets up long enough for me to get it inside. I find that the sound wire had been cut and stripped, not connected to anything. Tap it in and it sounds beautiful. Played it for an hour last night, its been on most of the day and it still sounds great. I can only guess that the guy had this wire stuffed into the connector and had a bad connection. $15 dollars in parts for a new marquee lamp assembly and misc. hardware for a proper monitor mount. So $275 total plus gas and MB has some company now. Wish they were all this cheap & easy.
Has minor glitches (which Ill address later) but looks, plays and sound great (even got a bottle of touch up paint which has already come into play). Also has an 8-way joystick (yuck), well be replacing that pretty soon.
Somewhere down the road, I'd like to find an economical way to have this play both DK and DK Jr., any ideas?


