jkoolpe
Well-known member
Hey all!
Well, I finally picked up a decent Qbert for myself (yea!). Can't wait to get Mike Doyle's multiboard when it becomes available. I even have some NOS CPO and front panel art to apply.
It does have some issues, but the cabinet is pretty nice. For whatever reason, it appears that the power supply is only putting out +4 volts instead of +5V...the game comes up, but it's now stuck on the opening screen after I hear Qbert's voice (so hopefully this means that the sound board is good
). It won't go into test mode.
I'll get Arcade Shop's replacement power supply regardless.
Anyway, I'll go through it a bit more tomorrow, but I was wondering:
I have an extra Gottlieb CPU/Main board that was from a Mad Planets. Are the Gottlieb main PCB boards interchangeable (between Mad Planets and Qbert with just a ROM swap)?
They sure do look the same...the only difference I could see beyond the ROMs was that the Qbert board had one extra 6116 RAM chip (of which I have plenty so I can easily add it to the empty socket on the MP board).
Thanks!
Jon
Well, I finally picked up a decent Qbert for myself (yea!). Can't wait to get Mike Doyle's multiboard when it becomes available. I even have some NOS CPO and front panel art to apply.
It does have some issues, but the cabinet is pretty nice. For whatever reason, it appears that the power supply is only putting out +4 volts instead of +5V...the game comes up, but it's now stuck on the opening screen after I hear Qbert's voice (so hopefully this means that the sound board is good
I'll get Arcade Shop's replacement power supply regardless.
Anyway, I'll go through it a bit more tomorrow, but I was wondering:
I have an extra Gottlieb CPU/Main board that was from a Mad Planets. Are the Gottlieb main PCB boards interchangeable (between Mad Planets and Qbert with just a ROM swap)?
They sure do look the same...the only difference I could see beyond the ROMs was that the Qbert board had one extra 6116 RAM chip (of which I have plenty so I can easily add it to the empty socket on the MP board).
Thanks!
Jon


