Another (rare) Craigslist Success Story

[Malenko]

saw a ms.pac about 45 minutes away, emailed the guy, he said it was first come first serve, so I started driving


this was the cab as it sat at his house, when I got there:


and here it is in my garage:


It does NOT work, monitor has power but there are some issues with the board. I emailed 2 bits and they replied within minutes (seriously) said if I sent the 2 bits parts, they'd check it out and replace the broken parts for $22. I replied back asking if I could just send them the whole board in case, they gave me the green light, said they'd replace the 2 bits parts and call me if more stuff is wrong.

daughter board pin header: (pin 20? is broken)


and the game rom is missing a leg:


the neat thing about the ABC kit is it lets you play PacMan and MsPacMan (with optional speed hack). Still $250 is a steal for this cab, even if the side art is vinyl and not painted

[brad808]

That looks awesome, good grab. Why don't you solder a wire from the broken pin onto the pcb trace and see if it works!

[Nephasth]

Hoarder!

[yotsuya]

Beautiful cab. Good for you!

[Malenko]

That looks awesome, good grab. Why don't you solder a wire from the broken pin onto the pcb trace and see if it works!

thought about it, but Id rather not start hacking at this otherwise pristine board. I need to take a picture of it before I ship it off, its a legit midway board, but it has a sticker that says PACKMAN. I have faith that 2bits can fix it at a reasonable price

[HaRuMaN]

 

[Malenko]

Why didn't you buy the pinball machine?

He said if he ever sells the joker poker he'll let me know. It had 2 broken drop targets, but they can be replaced.

[Gray_Area]

Great looking cab.

[Malenko]

so after poking around with it for a couple days, and sending my board off to 2 bits, I got it working. What do you think the issue really was?

This:

2 of them to be exact. 5Amp fuses in a 7AMP fuse holder. I replaced them with 7.5AMP fuses

This popped up:

and Haruman told me it was the test switch in the coin door, and it was. +fu for figuring it out in 3 seconds.

and here she is:

game is way too easy and not fun with the speed up hack, Ive contacted 2bits about it , since they reburnt the rom for me

more to come on twobits if they ever return my last email

[vanrose72]

Jealous! What a great find!

[Malenko]

so twobits ended up over charging me $22 , finally got it straightened out today. They are going to ship me a slow mspacman and a slow pacman rom to make up for the error, hopefully a rom puller too.

[Gray_Area]

Yeah, speed hack blows. Nice.

[Yenome]

yea my gf aunt has mc pacman with speed hack in it. was way too easy shame it didnt have a restrictor 4way on hers made me miss a few ups and downs. tho her cab is in good condition save for the black painted sides so sad to see art work hidden by paint. now that you got that working send it my way i need a pacman