I'm Quite Chuffed...

[yotsuya]

Thanks, Rick.

This is what I started with:

[CoryBee]

I like the theme of this thread

 

[yotsuya]

Guess which ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- is quite chuffed tonight? This one! 

[Rick]

Guess which ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- is quite chuffed tonight? This one! 

And why?

[yotsuya]

Ha! Thanks for the reminder, Rick!

This ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- be quite chuffed because his Centipede is now a real boy!

Lemme explain...

Last year a local collector gave me a Centipede cabinet that needed a TON of repair. The top was shredding, the bottoms were just as bad, and the front part where the control panel goes was busted off. Through care and tiny bit of love, I rebuilt and restored the cabinet. I got a Centipede panel with trackball to replace the Swiss cheese one it came with (which a year later went towards Macross - these cabs are intertwined, as you will see), obtained an WG monitor, wired it up for JAMMA, got a Centipede board and a JAMMA adapter, and lo and behold, I had a Centipede!

That frizzed out in December... 

Part of me wasn't happy doing the JAMMA thing. Sure, it worked, but it just never worked EXACTLY like a Centipede should. The LEDs, for one, never worked the way they were supposed to. I like the little touches to work on the games I love. Plus, my board started to freak the freak out.

So, come this February, I bought a similar condition Centipede for $50 to turn into Macross. The guy threw in the internals, which included the Atari Power Brick, an AR-II, and the wiring harness. I put those aside as I worked on Macross, and now that it's just about done, I got to tinkering with Centipede. I picked up a working Centipede board on KLOV from a great user there, this this weekend I took out all the JAMMA stuff from Centipede and wired in all the stuff I got from Macross. Once I was done, I had an untested setup.

I had to wait for some fuses to come in for the power brick, and they showed up yesterday. I installed my graphical glitchy board because it works and that way I knew I could at least test the components. Fired it up, and all looked well! I put in my good board.... and now I'm one chuffed mofo. I have a real Centipede now. 

Tonight I'm building the control panel harness, but that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---'s fun for me. So, all in all, it's been good so far.

[Rick]

Tonight I'm building the control panel harness, but that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---'s fun for me. So, all in all, it's been good so far.

Noice.

[yotsuya]

Tonight I'm building the control panel harness, but that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---'s fun for me. So, all in all, it's been good so far.

Noice.

Just finished the control panel wiring. All finished! Just waiting for a coin door part from Bob Roberts so I can build the coin harness, but the game is on free play and totally playable. 

[ark_ader]

Tonight I'm building the control panel harness, but that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---'s fun for me. So, all in all, it's been good so far.

Noice.

Just finished the control panel wiring. All finished! Just waiting for a coin door part from Bob Roberts so I can build the coin harness, but the game is on free play and totally playable. 

Which keyboard are you going to hack next when your centipede board takes a dive? 

[yotsuya]

Which keyboard are you going to hack next when your centipede board takes a dive? 

Your momma's.

[Rick]

[ark_ader]

Which keyboard are you going to hack next when your centipede board takes a dive? 

Your momma's.

O I ?   

[yotsuya]

OK, the Bob Roberts order came in, the door harness has been constructed... and she lives! Very proud of this restoration, considering where the cab was when I got it. 

Now just waiting on some control panel parts to finalize Macross... ZapCon is next week!