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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #80 on: June 10, 2015, 06:54:39 pm »
Nice. Where do you put the switch? I was thinking of putting it behind the coin door. I didn't necessarily want it easily switched.


I put the switch under the control panel where it's hidden and won't get accidentally pressed...





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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #81 on: June 10, 2015, 07:40:06 pm »
That's a nice looking cabinet.  The split t-molding is sweet. 

Nice. Where do you put the switch? I was thinking of putting it behind the coin door. I didn't necessarily want it easily switched.


I put the switch under the control panel where it's hidden and won't get accidentally pressed...







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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #82 on: June 10, 2015, 07:52:45 pm »
That's a nice looking cabinet.  The split t-molding is sweet. 

Thanks. The green side is all TMNT art. The purple side is all TIT art...







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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #83 on: June 11, 2015, 09:04:18 am »
Nice!  I thought about making a duel marquee for mine.  Going all-out with the side-art is pretty impressive.

That's a nice looking cabinet.  The split t-molding is sweet. 

Thanks. The green side is all TMNT art. The purple side is all TIT art...







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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #84 on: June 11, 2015, 10:26:02 am »
Nice!  I thought about making a duel marquee for mine.  Going all-out with the side-art is pretty impressive.

I like what MK3FAN did with this cab. I've decided mine is going to stay NBA Jam (even though I have a feeling eventually it's going to have NBA Maximum Hangtime and NHL Open Ice in it when all is said and done).
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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #85 on: June 25, 2015, 10:09:42 pm »
A couple of interesting developments tonight.  I cleaned the edge connector on the PCB as well as the pins going to/from the sound card.  Now the Total Carnage PCB is playing 100% with sound.   :cheers:

Also I was Binging for some images of Total Carnage (to help me put her back together  ;D) and ran across this.



I'm 99.568% sure this is my cabinet from a Des Moines auction from two years ago.

http://coinop411.web44.net/auc.php?evnt=212&page=3&qty=50&sort=Name

I bid on the cabinet until it was too rich for my blood but had always regretted not buying it.   Somehow this makes having this particular cabinet even more fun.

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #86 on: June 25, 2015, 10:21:18 pm »
Before I picked up this cabinet I was planning a 4-player MAME cabinet with a control panel similar to Malenko's Open Ice.  The goal was to let my son play NFL Blitz/NBA Jam and me play Smash TV/Total Carnage.  For that project I had stock-piled 4 8-way Wico leaf sticks.  Total Carnage uses microswitch joysticks and to be honest I like the feel of them.  Even when I had the JROK card plugged in I liked the feel of these joysticks playing Robotron.

So now I'm thinking about scrapping the Wico plan as sacrilegious as that may sound.  I would like to swap out the handles for new shiny ones though.

Does this look like a Happ Competition handle?



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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #87 on: June 26, 2015, 11:51:14 am »
I'm 99.568% sure this is my cabinet from a Des Moines auction from two years ago.

I bid on the cabinet until it was too rich for my blood but had always regretted not buying it.   Somehow this makes having this particular cabinet even more fun.

 :lol I love that. Makes me feel better about the After Burner I passed up.

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #88 on: June 26, 2015, 12:01:27 pm »
I'm 99.568% sure this is my cabinet from a Des Moines auction from two years ago.

I bid on the cabinet until it was too rich for my blood but had always regretted not buying it.   Somehow this makes having this particular cabinet even more fun.

 :lol I love that. Makes me feel better about the After Burner I passed up.

After Burner is another one I'd like to have.   :cheers:

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #89 on: June 26, 2015, 12:10:09 pm »
After Burner is another one I'd like to have.   :cheers:

Me too!

And what, no "I cleaned my edge connector and now everything works!!!1!" announcement in the Summer of Chuff thread?
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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #90 on: June 26, 2015, 12:12:44 pm »
After Burner is another one I'd like to have.   :cheers:

Me too!

And what, no "I cleaned my edge connector and now everything works!!!1!" announcement in the Summer of Chuff thread?

Good point!

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #91 on: June 27, 2015, 07:26:04 pm »
I might have jumped the gun a little on the PCB.  The board will play fine for 15-20 minutes and then I lose video.  I'm starting to think this game had issues (beyond the sound) when I bought it. 

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #92 on: June 27, 2015, 07:44:38 pm »
That sounds like a heat issue.  You got a laser thermometer?  Start probing around on chips and see if anything is overheating.

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #93 on: June 27, 2015, 07:51:31 pm »
That sounds like a heat issue.  You got a laser thermometer?  Start probing around on chips and see if anything is overheating.

Yotsuya had suggested that might be the problem earlier.  I do not have a laser thermometer.  Assuming I get one what is the cause/remedy for that issue?

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #95 on: June 27, 2015, 09:25:31 pm »
Yeah, that would work.  I wouldn't pay that much though.  You can get in the $10 dollar range if you dig around. Harbor Freight, etc.  But you basically just run the machine and start shooting components and noting the temps.  Temps will go up over time and level off - normally.  The bad component will keep rising till the machine goes bonkers.  Once you "think" you know where the fault it - get a can of air duster and blast the component - that will drop the temp of the component, if stuff returns to normal, that's the bad part.

Careful about cooling the part to quickly though - you don't want to thermal shock stuff and watch it explode.

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #96 on: June 27, 2015, 09:27:53 pm »
Awesome. Thank you very much SlippyBlade!

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« Reply #97 on: June 27, 2015, 09:31:05 pm »
You have a built-in thermal thermometer in your fingertips.
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« Reply #98 on: June 27, 2015, 09:32:35 pm »
You have a built-in thermal thermometer in your fingertips.

Ha ha!  What's the fun in that. I want a new tool.

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« Reply #99 on: June 28, 2015, 02:59:37 pm »
You have a built-in thermal thermometer in your fingertips.

A thermal thermometer?  Is that like a velocity speedometer?  or an altitude altimeter?  :p

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« Reply #100 on: June 28, 2015, 03:37:18 pm »
You have a built-in thermal thermometer in your fingertips.

A thermal thermometer?  Is that like a velocity speedometer?  or an altitude altimeter? 
Hush, you! Or I'm going to double the price of that cocktail!
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« Reply #101 on: June 28, 2015, 03:46:38 pm »
Hush, you! Or I'm going to double the price of that cocktail!

It'd still be a decent price, but I'm shutting up now.

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #102 on: June 28, 2015, 05:34:25 pm »
Haha!  Actually, do you still want it? Now that I have the Ms Pac-Man, I don't need it anymore. Let me know.
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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #103 on: June 28, 2015, 06:42:48 pm »
Get a room you two!  We are trying to preserve arcade history here.   ;D


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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #104 on: June 28, 2015, 07:07:15 pm »
Cosmetics are almost done.  When putting it back together I realized I forgot to paint what I thought was the back side of this bracket.  Turns out it is the front-side.  I'll be painting that tonight.   :banghead:


It turns out 6-1/2 speakers will fit these cabinets just fine.  On Friday night I accidentally shoved a screwdriver through the woofer of my $8 Amazon speaker.  A Saturday morning run to Walmart fixed that problem.  I haven't shopped for car stereo equipment in years and found it odd how few stores there are nowadays. Seems like back in the day you could go anywhere and pick up some speakers.


The blue of the tweeter/midrange was showing through to the Total Carnage logo so I used some speaker grill felt to hide it.  I also use the felt to hide the hole where the 4" "tweeter" was originally.



This made me laugh while I was working.  How many of you end up putting tools on another cabinet while you are working?



Here are some shots of the finished cabinet.











I'm real happy with it so far.  Magic Eraser really is magic.  I used it on the side-art and CPO.  It really made the colors on the CPO pop.  There was also a lot of paint overspray (from the previous owner) on the CPO and front of the CP.  Magic Eraser took it right off. 

The only issues I have left cosmetically are minor will have to wait until I have less projects in the que.  The side-art pealing looks much worse with the rest of the cabinet done.  I may need to take Malenko's suggestion at some point and clean up the edges.  The glass bezel also has some scratches in it and I may possibly replace it at some point.

My next steps are to get the PCB situation squared around and install some Any Coin mechs so this bad boy can take some tokens!

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Re: Total Carnage! I love it!
« Reply #105 on: July 06, 2015, 11:28:02 pm »
My Any Coin's came in today and I got them installed.  To add to that I bought a new coin box from Twisted Quarter.  Being able to drop tokens into my own game is priceless.

More information on the Any Coins can be found here.  I highly recommend them.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,144539.0.html



The good news is that Twisted Quarter has replacement handles for $4 each.  The bad news is they didn't fit.




I may just clean up the ones I have for now.

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« Reply #106 on: July 06, 2015, 11:38:31 pm »
I put blue ones in my Ms. Pac. Any Coin Mechs are awesome.

My Any Coin's came in today and I got them installed.  To add to that I bought a new coin box from Twisted Quarter.  Being able to drop tokens into my own game is priceless.

More information on the Any Coins can be found here.  I highly recommend them.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,144539.0.html



The good news is that Twisted Quarter has replacement handles for $4 each.  The bad news is they didn't fit.




I may just clean up the ones I have for now.
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