Asteroids Deluxe (Jamma)

[kayoteq]

A picture is a thousand words, they say..

With a homebrew support for the crt, hardly a trace of the original Atari remains.. other than what may be under the control panel, but unlike my other obsession, (the Centipede Restoration) this one's being left as-is (except to remove the control panel instrucitons for SF 2 and MAME'd.  since it has a complete Jamma harness hooked up with the lone exception of a PCB , and re-use the Trivia Whiz buttons on the coin door area for those special buttons like coin, reset etc.

 I'd rather not work out the wonders of vector monitors just yet.
Those letters are just stuck on there, but I plan to put some sort of marquee art on there.

 maaaybe Asteroids Deluxe, maybe Spaceballs: The Video Game.

I think 3 games are my limit for now. Why didn't anyone warn me about this?

[Namco]

I like SF2 as much as the next guy, but that conversion is just a crime. Man, that thing is fugly. Good luck making it a Mame cab, it looks to be in pretty good shape.

[ChadTower]

That thing almost ruined my morning.  Ew.

Try the vector emulator that is in the Software forum right now... it's getting great reviews, works on a raster.

[kayoteq]

I like SF2 as much as the next guy, but that conversion is just a crime. Man, that thing is fugly. Good luck making it a Mame cab, it looks to be in pretty good shape.

Oh yeah. It was the definite ugly duckling of of the auction, other than the pinball machine that lost it's head in transit. ("Somewhere on highway 81", the seller was overheard saying.)

Took me awhile to even figure out what it _was_ having not memorized the varied cabs. I just knew it was somehow familiar. My clue was a 1981 date stamp on one of the interior panels. (some Stargates use the same shape, thought I had one of those..)

As for lunch-losing, I will be merciful and not put up a picture of the controls. I think somebody destroyed a SF2 cabinet and they put what remained into this. Already did a switch-test while watching Mythbusters, only one micro-switch had a problem and a swap of the NO/NC pins somehow fixed it.

This is my 'victim cab', specific to making something weird and MAME.. Sorry folks, I keep trying to find something generic and end up with some big-name victim of conversion.. so this is my limit, my friend who is letting me store these things threatened to start charging rent if I get any more.

As far as ugly goes, I may have succeded in topping that. This is concept 1 for the finished product..

 with a hacked dragon's lair video using Spaceballs clips as one of the games. Yes, that is a plaid bezel.

Aint' I a stinker?

Just finished refurbing together two old '98 Mac clones running OS 9 as the source for the beeping icons. One as the  decent machine and the other as the wiring experiment victim to find the best setup.

They're the old 'mac-only' video type, before they joined the rest of the world with SVGA etc. plus a few video cards I had lying around that really are not useful with the current OSX.. out of all the signals the thing will be putting out, one of them is bound to match the monitor.. hmm. guess I need to figure out what it is.

Good computers, lousy monitor boards, about as reliable as the first run of Star Wars vectors..
about every one of them is sitting around because the monitor part went bad eventually..

bzzt!

[kayoteq]

It's Alive, Alive I tells ya!


Got in my 48-in-1 jamma board (vertical) and had to test out the AD stuff with it.. A bit challenging learning the 48's interface, but that cheesy music was a definite motivator to figure it out.

So.. diagnosis: The jamma harness is mostly intact. Still have some coin box wiring issues, but that's because they'd taken the coin mechs off the door and  it fell around pulling some wires loose. Had no P1 up for a bit, but the connector had popped loose in the molex connector. pop it back, P1 up.

Well, sideways. it is a vertical games PCB, after all. But I has power, sound, video (after adjustment) and free play for now till I get the switches worked out..

Next step is putting in the Xbox jamma thingie and playing games proper. The 48 is destined for the galaxian sitdown after I undo all that Trivia whiz..

Just happy everything works. I still can't succeed in getting a 'parts' machine.. I keep putting them back together. not that plugging in a pcb and tweaking knobs is much work, but I had no idea whether everything worked on this. Happily it does..
Next part to fix is the missing grounding plug the rest of wires are there..

[WaRpEd]

Hate it when my ship goes plaid.
But when your surrounded by  :censored:sholes that happens.
Actually I find the idea of a Spaceballs cab pretty funny.

Just don't get caught playing with your dolls.





Again!!

[TOK]

I always thought the profile of Asteroids Deluxe gave it a really top heavy look. Since it's already been converted, I'd probably cut the front sides on it to give it a more traditional marquee area that sticks out a bit.

[ChadTower]

I always thought the profile of Asteroids Deluxe gave it a really top heavy look. Since it's already been converted, I'd probably cut the front sides on it to give it a more traditional marquee area that sticks out a bit.

Hell no.  Don't listen to him.  AD is awesome.

[blueznl]

I like that SpaceBalls theme. But then again, I'm all pro hotrodding cabs, so I might be expelled just because of that 

[shilmover]

It's Alive, Alive I tells ya!

Got in my 48-in-1 jamma board (vertical) and had to test out the AD stuff with it.. A bit challenging learning the 48's interface, but that cheesy music was a definite motivator to figure it out.

Yeah, what is with that music?!?  Fingers on a chaulk board!!   

Well, sideways. it is a vertical games PCB, after all. But I has power, sound, video (after adjustment) and free play for now till I get the switches worked out..

How did you get the video working?  On mine, the games are fine, but the selection screen is terrible.  Greenish background and for most of the games, i cannot even make out what they are (luckily I recognize them, but my kids have no idea).  Horrible!