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Galaga Cocktail Restoration (was: Great score today!)

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protokatie:

--- Quote ---Think one of the roms might be corrupted?
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Possibly, but at the same time think of all of the electrolytic components on the boards. Those things have a life span, and are very temp/moisture sensitive. You might need to break out the multimeter and a soldering iron...

SirPeale:
Look inside the coin door.  There may be an interlock switch there.  Attempt to pull it out to get it to run with the door open.

Also, it seems to be stating a RAM issue, and telling you which RAM may be at fault.  Check the RAMs to see if they're socketed.  If they are, *gently* push down on them (and any other socketed chips) they may have "creeped" from their sockets due to temperature fluctuations.  If you hear them crack slightly they're going back down into their sockets.

Then fire it up again.  You might get extra lucky.

vidmouse:
Not sure why this thread was moved, but whatever...

Guess I'm EXTRA lucky:


YES!!!!   :applaud:

I did have to remove the board and one of the roms, then
reinserted it, then cycled power a few times.  Now it comes
up as it should EVERY time on plug-in.

Played it a few times already, it kicks all sorts over what I can
do in MAME, never realized what I was missing before!  Both
P1 and P2 controls work and the flaky sound also cleared up too.
Maybe it just needed a little love and time to warm up.

Good thing I saved it yesterday too, because today it RAINED
all day and this thing would've been sitting outside in that.

I toggled the dipswitches off free play and the coin mech
switches appear to work (by manually triggering them), but
for some reason dropping quarters into it isn't tripping the switch.
Guess I wouldn't mind leaving it on free play all the time but
I'd prefer to use the coin slots/mechs if I can.

Also, heh, I found another 4 quarters in the machine's cab
once I looked more closely.  Ka-ching!

Guess I'll be getting into restoration on this sooner than I thought,
since it should be a lot simpler now (hopefully).

Any more suggestions on how to handle the wood and glass would be
appreciated.  I guess I can start a project thread for this (although
since it's a restoration and not a scratch-build or MAME conversion,
is that appropriate?)

Cheers...

protokatie:

--- Quote ---I guess I can start a project thread for this (although
since it's a restoration and not a scratch-build or MAME conversion,
is that appropriate?
--- End quote ---

I HIGHLY doubt anyone would mind. (Read: you HAVE to start that thread!!!)

Also: Awesome luck for you. Never really played that game (a little before my time) but I always like seeing a cocktail cabinet being worked on or made or whatever. There arent enough threads with cocktails in them here.... It seems the big push is for uprights as that is what most of us played back in the day.

Conformity be damned!

GAJoe:
Heh, you'll have to let your neighbor know you got it working by reseating the chips on the PCB.    Once again, I envy your awesome streak of luck.  Now that I have a lot of neighbors in this apartment complex, maybe someone will put a cool arcade cabinet out on their patio for me.

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