So after a long drive back from middle Washington, I finally got the cabinet home.
The seller seemed really sad to let this baby go, but said he was happy that it's going to a good home. Indeed it is!
The drive was long, and most of it was through a mountainous area.
Beatiful view, what an awesome drive there. But on the way back it rained really hard, and was pretty scary driving down.
The cabinet dimensions are about 5'3" tall, and 2'x2' wide/deep. When we picked it up, my wife couldn't refrain from saying "it's so cute!".
It packed up pretty snug in the SUV. Yay 60/40 split!
Here are couple shots of it in it's new home. I turned it on to see how it ran, with the lights on and off to see how clear and bright the monitor was. It's awesome! No burn in, and nice and sharp!
(Hard to tell, but on the right is a dreamcast sitting on top of a 1084s monitor, rotate on it's side for some
Under Defeat monitor testing
)
The cabinet condition isn't terrible, though the sides are pretty roughed up, and foot base wood will need to be restored. My fear for the need of a repaint is true, so I'll have to see if I can get the paint matched, as well as copy the artwork and stencil it out.
A close-up shot of the top corner:
The CP has a nasty cigarette burn on the right, and will probably have to be replaced. The bezel, and marquee are in pretty good shape, could use a cleaning is all. The t-molding will have to go. The buttons are dirty but have no damage.
From my earlier assumptions, the coin doors are in awesome condition, they're just dirty, and are missing the proper cam-locks. The backdoor is missing a lock as well.
I'll take more pictures tomorrow, my camera battery died after taking a few shots so I need to let it charge.
Played it a little bit after getting it home. The joysticks are a bit loose for my liking, especially the shooting side, but I'm assuming the grommets are just a bit worn down. I was able to strike a deal with a fellow BYOAC'r for some replacement wico assemblies, I'm going to see what i can use to get the feeling a bit more tight in these. They should be arriving soon.
As for the game, after roughly 5 mins of playing the game crashes and resets. I did the initial rom checks, and diagnostics and it all turned out fine. No errors, except for an error 31 - CMOS write error. This makes sense because I didn't have any AA alkaline batteries to put in for the high-score saves. But this shouldn't be making the game crash...
I've read somewhere that it could perhaps be the power supply failing? Does anyone have any experience with their Williams games randomly crashing and resetting to a diagnostic test?
*Edit*: Looks like I can reproduce the crash 100% when it goes to the brain levels, aka Wave 5's. eeek!