Ok, to begin with, I definitely do not deserve the awesome friend/tech support that Brien/Arcadenut is... The man is just plain awesome. Thanks a ton, Brien.
Ok, lips now off of B's behind, I picked up an el cheapo JAMMA Aliens game tonight off of Craigslist. The people listed it as nonworking, no pictures, and wanted $120 for it. I almost blew it off, but I had seen it on there for a while, almost a month... So I looked it up on KLOV and remembered playing it BITD. So I shot them a text and planned on meeting them after I got off work.
Got there and almost ran out the door. It had no sideart and looked pretty awful. Then she began telling me how it worked until it just started "smoking." So I plugged it in, and heard sounds. So it was playing blind, no neck glow, no monitor, but marquee lights, coindoor lights, etc.
Then I smelled the evil smoke. Holy hell. And it kept playing blind, despite the fact that I could see that the isolation transformer connected to the power supply was puffing smoke like a stoner on a joint. After disconnecting the power cable, it continued to crackle and smoke for, I swear to God, another 5 minutes. No fuses have popped since I've had it.
At this point, not being that interested in the game, I called Brien and asked a few questions, and then tried looking up the transformer online. (No luck, that's my first question, can anyone help me source it?) and explained a few ideas to her and her husband. I tried talking them into fixing it up, but I guess he was not comfortable messing with solder or electronics, and didn't have time. So I tried to leave, but they really wanted to get rid of it. So I offered them $50. They were like, "Take it."
So, I couldn't pass it up for that, the parts are worth that, and the cab is decently solid, just ugly. So I brought it home.

Ok, lips now off of B's behind, I picked up an el cheapo JAMMA Aliens game tonight off of Craigslist. The people listed it as nonworking, no pictures, and wanted $120 for it. I almost blew it off, but I had seen it on there for a while, almost a month... So I looked it up on KLOV and remembered playing it BITD. So I shot them a text and planned on meeting them after I got off work.
Got there and almost ran out the door. It had no sideart and looked pretty awful. Then she began telling me how it worked until it just started "smoking." So I plugged it in, and heard sounds. So it was playing blind, no neck glow, no monitor, but marquee lights, coindoor lights, etc.
Then I smelled the evil smoke. Holy hell. And it kept playing blind, despite the fact that I could see that the isolation transformer connected to the power supply was puffing smoke like a stoner on a joint. After disconnecting the power cable, it continued to crackle and smoke for, I swear to God, another 5 minutes. No fuses have popped since I've had it.
At this point, not being that interested in the game, I called Brien and asked a few questions, and then tried looking up the transformer online. (No luck, that's my first question, can anyone help me source it?) and explained a few ideas to her and her husband. I tried talking them into fixing it up, but I guess he was not comfortable messing with solder or electronics, and didn't have time. So I tried to leave, but they really wanted to get rid of it. So I offered them $50. They were like, "Take it."
So, I couldn't pass it up for that, the parts are worth that, and the cab is decently solid, just ugly. So I brought it home.
- Isolation transformer - where get?
- If I replace that, hopefully that fixes it, but if not... Would putting a new or replacement transformer be stupid before doing something else?
- Need to check monitor. Standard res WG 7000 series in a JAMMA cab, so hopefully not too hard to pull off.
- If I wanted a different JAMMA game to put in it, what is everyone's favorite? I am so unfamiliar with what's JAMMA...? It has 2 8-way leaf joysticks and 2 leaf buttons per player.




