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Bally home pinball model service information
cheeseviking:
Thanks for all that info. I've seen your name pop up on a few different boards/threads when I was looking for answers. :)
I was following Tony's website and emailed El Dorado games, the company he listed that would sell the board. They told me the project had been dumped off to Marco Specialties, and after an email with them I found out this
"We have spoke with the gentleman who was originally in charge of this project and he was talking about turning it over to us. I believe we have the plans and everything and are working on this board now. It will probably be mid February until we have these available"
They could not tell me anything on price.
I have a Bally Home Fireball. The backglass lights powerup and the flippers work, but that's it. Nothing on the playfield works and no scores are registered. I was hoping this new board would be an easy and not too costly fix.
Ken Layton:
John Robertson in Vancouver, B.C. (Canada) has just announced he has a replacement cpu board available NOW for the Bally home model pinballs Series 2 machines (Series 1 board coming in a couple of months). Here's his announcement:
Finally, after trying to get this off the ground for over ten years I
have a solution to the failing 3850/3870 CPUs and support ICs for the
Bally Home Pinball games.
Just finished the rough test today, and the replacement part covers both
versions of CPU with a PCB needed for the older 3850, and the original
3870 socketed for the second version of the MPU. This uses the later
version software but all of the game functions (including sounds) are
present as per my test machine - a Captain Fantastic (home) machine.
Immediately available for the single chip (3870) series games @ $75USD
plus shipping.
And, in a month or two, I should have something ready that folks can
install for the three chip (3850/51) series games that will cost around
$125.
John :-#)#
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"Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."
ed12:
if john has it
it will be right
there in second thinking here
ed
Ken Layton:
Now posted on youtube is a series of videos from a guy developing new hardware and software to operate the Bally Fireball home pinball. Here is just one of his videos:
Ken Layton:
Here is a video showing how the original Bally Fireball home model pinball plays and sounds.
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