Some days the stars align

YellowDog

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Today was one of those days. First I got a call from a guy that expressed interest in a multicade that has been cluttering my garage for a while. I needed to put a new control panel overlay on it and put the control panel back together. That actually worked first try without screwing up the overlay or breaking any buttons. I wasn't happy with the picture so i pulled the chassis and it was some Chinese knockoff (Hsinga, IIRC). Well, I actually had all of the capacitors that tested bad :eek: I swapped them in, put the chassis back and it looks f*ing amazing. I attached some pics (so it really did happen).

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It is either a 25" or 27" monitor and looks amazing now.

So when you get something fixed, you keep rolling despite the 90+ degree, 140% humidity heat. I decided to tackle the Donkey Kong cocktail. This was the POS I rescued from the falling down warehouse earlier this year (http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=217776 and http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=220030 and http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=224584). Well I finally burned the video ROM (just before my computer atached to my ROM burner crashed) a couple of weeks ago, so it was time to put it in. Of course, the old chip left 6 pins in the socket when I pulled it. It took an hour to tease them out of the socket. But I got them out and seated the new ROM.

The video worked fine. But the sound was gone. Aaargh. So I pulled the boards, carefully checked all the connections and put them back, plugged and prayed. I was rewarded with the power up sound and crisp clean video. I toggled a coin in (does anybody know how to put it into free play?) and played a game. Well I am no Steve W. but it looked good and sounded perfect.

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It is time to quit while I am ahead. It is time for some brisket and beer.

ken
 

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BOOYAH!!!!! Another working DK! Way to go, can you make my player 1 CP work all the time on my DK CT????
 
So, in your multicade pics I see both Pengo and 1942. Which one won't your buyer be able to play correctly?
 
They stopped over to look at it tonight. Apparently all she was concerned about is that "the screen doesn't lay flat like the old MS Pacman used to" and "does it do the fast version of Ms Pacman?".

Nothing I can do about the monitor (it is a 25" mounted vertically in a SF3 cabinet).

I showed them how to set Ms Pac to the fast setting as well as taking it out of free play (she wants to charge her kids to play??!??). Unfortunately, I screwed up and didn't save the Fast setting so it didn't show up when I rebooted (can anybody say rookie mistake?). I'll know in the next couple of days. I can tell he wants it, he just has to get his balls from the drawer she keeps them in before he can buy it.

BTW. Thanks to Mod & everybody else that patiently explained why Nintendo pulled a bonehead move and didn't add free play. I guess I need to add a coin up button somewhere. Maybe an nice unobtrusive lighted button centered in the lower coin door. Anybody know where I can get a 50W lighted button? Preferably one that color cycles. ;)

ken
 
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