Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Who needs Asteroids when you can get a ...... Meteor !!
Level42:
Hey strange, the buttons are a bit different from the usual "Happ/Suzo" button we all know. The "lip" seems to be a bit thicker and higher. Overall the button looks a bit bulkier....the pic doesn't really show it very well:
Looks like the TL tube is still the original.....
Weird starter ! Looks like a regular light-bulb....
Checked it a bit and Nintendo used these too, so must be a Japanese thing...
Sigh.......the marquee is glued to the metal retainers.....won't help when scanning it :(
OK, we all agree that the sides are dull. Is this a bit better ? :laugh2:
Mmmmm, this doesn't look like it should look. I unsoldered one leg cause it's a filtering cap only. No difference. The boards keeps getting resets.
Level42:
I am going to need a good guide on restoring metal panels that have their artwork directly silk-screened.
I guess I will have to scan it first. Than I see no other option to sand the whole thing to the bare metal, 'cause that rust is hurting your hands ! But than....how do I get back the art ? In this case I could maybe stencil it ?
Spaced Ace:
Level42, youre too much man. You leaving the control panel as is or you thinking about putting a spinner or trackball in there or something? Figure since its an Astroids clone, why not beef it up a little and update the controls... If you keep it as is, yes it would be an original Meteor, and thats cool and all, but if your going to have Astroids, just buy Astroids.
I'd modernize it if it were me and ditch the Astroid buttons.... but thats just my opinion....
Level42:
A spinner on an Asteroids (clone) ? ? ? ? How do you suppose that would be interfaced to the game PCB ?
This section is about restorations my friend, not about conversions..... :D
An update: in the weekend of the picking up of the MC cabaret, we also visited Andreas from www.andysarcades.de
It was a great visit, will report about it in a separate thread but to go short: Andreas has a working Meteor PCB. He repaired it and made an adapter to run it on his Asteroids cocktail table. He told me to bring my defective Meteor PCB set and promised to have a look at it. He just mailed me and he has done some amazing work. A LOT of IC's needed replacement ! The game is now running and sound is OK. There's one minor issue still. I'm positive I never would have been able to find all these defective chips....so a very big thanks to Andreas ! :applaud:
Level42:
Just got another mail from Andy, and the PCB is 100% working OK now !!! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
It really needed a lot of work and new IC's but now it's alive again ! :)
Andy will be shipping out the board this weekend......can't wait. Andy suggested to replace all the remaining IC sockets and caps which I will do of course. Can't wait to try it on the cab again, what an amazing feeling that will be.
I completely got hooked on Andy's Asteroids cockpit table so I know I am going to LOVE this Meteor ! :D
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