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Taito Ice Cold Beer Inoperable, repair thread, but backlogged. Roughly a year of backlog…

So I'm making an Ice Cold Beer repair thread. I acquired one for myself, my brother also acquired one around the same time. My brothers functions but has a couple bugs during gameplay, it will randomly freeze and needs to be reset. Being a good brother I agreed to figure out the issue with his game as well.

I have at this point electrically repaired both machines and have fully cosmetically restored one of them. I also made some upgrades to the PCB to include a switchable free-play mode and normal game play mode, via a hacked EEPROM chip with a custom PCB daughter board.

I'm working on the 2nd restoration. The 2nd will be faster and easier as it was not in as terrible of shape physically, even though it looks like someone may have hit it with a baseball bat. So the following will be a chronicle of that work. First electrical restoration, then cosmetic. I will unfortunately be missing many pictures I took of the electrical restoration as my phone, which had all of the photos on it, was stolen. So I apologize for any lack of electrical photos but most of this will be evident from the schematics in the owners manual.

As I began my journey down this rabbit hole, maybe rabbit hole is not accurate, black hole may be more accurate. Anyways, I found the below thread incredibly helpful to better understand this machine.

It chronicles the journey from completely inoperable to fully functional of an ICB machine. I learned quite a bit from it but my issues were spread across two different machines.

The following posts will be a backlog of posts that I meant to make but didn't, over the last year. The goal here is so you can gain some Dos, Don'ts and some confidence to go from zero experience in this field to doing board repairs, cosmetic repairs and the such. This post will be a work in progress that I hope to write fully over the course of the next month or so. So I'm going to keep at it until it's done.
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