Blue Screen Of Death for Cabinet

[fastredpacman]

When I first got the cab it didn

[GameDork]

What kind of cab. is it? Pics?

[DarkKobold]

The next step is research:

www.klov.com

[fastredpacman]

Here are some pics.

[fastredpacman]

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[DarkKobold]

Wow. I'm sorry, I think that is a first.

You can't learn basically anything from those pictures! (not your fault).... Really, who names a video game "Video Game"

Unfortuantely, this isn't really the place to restore video games. I'd register over at KLOV and see if they can identify the machine. The real question is, are you trying to restore it or MAME it?

If you are trying to MAME it, than the internal workings aren't going to help much. If you are trying to restore it, read KLOV message boards or rec.games.video.collecting (if you are new, go through google's free newsgroup service)

[DarkKobold]

Also, those people MAY (key word) find it to be a rarity, and want to pay you mucho bucks to buy it, and also give you a cab worthy of MAMING. It appears to be an original whatever the frig it is. Crazy cab.

[JoyMonkey]

Photos of the PCB might help. Take a look at the PCB (the original game's circuit board that is causing these 'purple screens of death') and try and find some markings by the manufacturer. The manufacturers name and some sort of serial number will usually be on there.
Also, most original PCBs will have markings on their ROM chips that correspond to the roms that Mame uses (inside the zip file).

[RayB]

It can be anything..... Maybe the game circuit board is bad and it's outputting nothing but blue. On the other hand, the monitor itself might be shot and is displaying nothing but blue...

[paigeoliver]

Dude, keep the repair thread about this game to one thread. I already ID'd the dang thing in the other thread. Now this thread just starts the whole thing all over again.

For everyone else. It is a chinese bootleg cabinet, an Artic (ATW) cabinet. It could have originally been sold without game, otherwise it was probably a bootleg Scramble or other space game. Artic (ATW) cabinets are not collectable unless they are dedicated minis that Todd at TNT amusements doesn't have, in which case he will pay nicely for them (the reason I mention that is because there are like 6 different types of ATW mini, and there were like 10 games that could have been "dedicated" in them). But that isn't a mini.

Now please do what I said and get a multimeter, you aren't going to be able to do any real testing without one.

[fastredpacman]

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[fastredpacman]

Hey paigeoliver. Cut me some slack alright. All I wanted to do was get the stupid thing working. No need to get your panties in a bunch. Now having said that. I do appreciate the help you gave me I got the multimeter and ran some tests.

[paigeoliver]

No, it was advice, my panties weren't in a bunch!   I have so many people ask me questions (I get a lot of messages) that I find it hard to keep track of all this stuff. I simply can't remember every detail of everyone elses cabinet problems, and neither can most other people, which is why it is important to keep this stuff to one thread per issue, otherwise information gets lost.

Now why did you remove the post that said you got it working? =)

[fastredpacman]

I

[DarkKobold]

I can almost guarentee that hasn't been dumped. Good for you fastredpacman!
Where'd you find the thing?

[JoyMonkey]

Junior King was added to Mame in July 2001 (version 37b16)
http://www.mame.net/wip0106.html

It was probably removed when they cleaned all the hacked clones out of Mame.
It might still be in No Name Mame.