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Coor's Lite (Capcom) Bowling in a Jaleco Lo-Pro Universal cabinet (never seen this cabinet type before). I kinda like the style of the cabinet. Has a pretty bad cigarette smoke smell though, so it's gonna be chilling in the garage for a while. Anyone have a recommendation on ways to get rid of the smell?

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And an Arkanoid in a centipede cabinet. Picked it up because it was cheap, and literally right around the corner from me. The guy also had a Simpsons pinball (not SPP), but not for sale. Had already sold his Black Knight pinball and maybe one other.
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Got two extra Arkanoid boards with it, one works, one doesn't. The guy said the non-working board was a tournament board, but it looks exactly like the normal Arkanoid board, though the labeling on some of the chips is different. Tried swapping the chips from the bad board to the good board, it booted up and played normal Arkanoid, but some of the sprites were garbled. What is the big red chip on the right board that the left one is missing?

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I believe the chips are interchangeable between arkanoid and tournament. I purchased an arkanoid board a while back already having a tournament board. I was shocked when I powered it up only to see it as tournament also. Doh!
 
The style cab that Bowling cab is in is popular in Australia, where I think its generically referred to as a Low Boy. I really like those, and you rarely see them in the US.

You can just sit and let the game air out, but if worst comes to worst, you can strip it, wipe the inside out and seal the stink in with Kilz primer... I had a game that was in a bar for years. I actually loved the smell of it, but I was the only one! It stayed in the garage until a bachelor buddy took it.
 
There are several ways to cut those odors down. I am going to share 2-3 of them. I belong to another forum and we were talking about the same topic. Might come back with additional things to try.

1. Ammonia and water. dilute to 10-20% by volume. sponge or cloth apply. Might have to do insides too.

2. Simple Green. Also dilute and test in spot before doing whole cabinet.

3. If you can find it, Murphy's Oil Soap. Good one, but you might have to apply it twice.
 
Coor's Lite (Capcom) Bowling in a Jaleco Lo-Pro Universal cabinet (never seen this cabinet type before). I kinda like the style of the cabinet. Has a pretty bad cigarette smoke smell though, so it's gonna be chilling in the garage for a while. Anyone have a recommendation on ways to get rid of the smell?

Shake baking soda in it and let it sit for a month?
 
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The guy said the non-working board was a tournament board, but it looks exactly like the normal Arkanoid board, though the labeling on some of the chips is different. Tried swapping the chips from the bad board to the good board, it booted up and played normal Arkanoid, but some of the sprites were garbled. What is the big red chip on the right board that the left one is missing?

Yes, Ark and Tourn Ark are identical boards. The only difference is the roms *AND* the special microcontroller chip. Basically a CPU with a tiny amount of PROM memory internal to the core that contains the decrypting bits associated with the roms. Without moving that chip, you won't be able to get Tournament to play. On the right board picture, it's the one with the white mask cover next to the red wafer. It won't have a 27xx number rather an MCxxxx number on it IIRC. Move that and your graphics should decrypt correctly.

Speaking of the red wafer.. yeah, that design sucks putting a SIP mount wide wafer in.. worse than the brittle resitor arrays on Pac/Galaga boards since they break off easily when ops stack or ship these boards. You'll need to find another dead (in different ways) board and then desolder and move that over and I bet it will light up.


To get rid of the cigarette smell:
1) Brute force: disassemble and sand the crap out of the insides
2) Use things like Goof-Off (Xylene based) to quickly scour the outside vinyl -- test in hidden area first, some will melt or discolor, but on older things like Bally/Midway wood grain it doesn't eat it and really cleans off marker and paint and other stuff as well as remove smell
3) Get an ozone generator and set it inside the cab once you've sanded it. Wrap the outsides in plastic and it will help eat it away
4) Go get some of the activated charcoal and other "smell away" canisters. Set inside for a couple weeks. I did this on a Taito SI Trimline and it helped... along with all of the above.. Now 6 months later in the house it doesn't smell bad anymore. I did also paint the insides flat black to seal it all up once I sanded and got the rest of the smell gone first.
 
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Cool, thanks for the info. The labels on some of the chips are different between the boards, I'll have to tinker around with it a bit more later. I just didn't think it was a dead tourney board, since moving all the socketed chips from one board to the other booted up and played the normal arkanoid levels, just with scrambled graphics on the main screen and some scrambled text.


Yes, Ark and Tourn Ark are identical boards. The only difference is the roms *AND* the special microcontroller chip. Basically a CPU with a tiny amount of PROM memory internal to the core that contains the decrypting bits associated with the roms. Without moving that chip, you won't be able to get Tournament to play. On the right board picture, it's the one with the white mask cover next to the red wafer. It won't have a 27xx number rather an MCxxxx number on it IIRC. Move that and your graphics should decrypt correctly.

Speaking of the red wafer.. yeah, that design sucks putting a SIP mount wide wafer in.. worse than the brittle resitor arrays on Pac/Galaga boards since they break off easily when ops stack or ship these boards. You'll need to find another dead (in different ways) board and then desolder and move that over and I bet it will light up.
 
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