Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Centipede Mini Restoration
SirPeale:
So far I've only done it the once. I did have one kid that said "I've been trick-or-treating for like seven years, and this is the coolest house I've ever been to". That made the whole thing worth it.
Last year I was going to do it, but things came up and I couldn't. This year I hope will be different.
Level42:
So you give tokens instead of treats ;)
SirPeale:
Nope - everything set to free play.
And treats too.
Level42:
You're too kind ;)
Regretfully we don't celebrate Halloween here although there are certain things (like parties) coming up now.
By the way, here's how NOT to treat a Centipede Mini.
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Poor little fellow. Weird, not a single bid yet at 300 Euro's ! (Paid that for my upright !!) Some people really over estimate what they can get for it overhere.
SirPeale:
Dammit...
Pulled the board, cut off the offending RAM @ K5. Unsoldered the pins, lifting a trace as I did so. Fixed the trace, was more careful with the remaining pins. Cleaned the holes out.
I have an old Merit board that has sockets of the correct size. Got my blowtorch out and pulled it out.
Soldered the socket in place. Pulled a 2101 out of a Galaxian board I have in the attic. The ending numbers are slightly different from what was in there, but I suspect that's a manufacturing code, not anything to do with the chip itself.
Popped the board back in the machine...still coming up with RAM K5 error.
Okay...let's do the basics first...let's resolder the pins on the socket, put the RAM back in, and fire it up.
This time, partial success. Boots to text garbage, but the sprites are mostly okay. Figured "what the heck, I'll play a quick game even though it's mostly garbage"
Got about a minute into the game when it freaked out again. Put it in test mode and...you guessed it...K5 bad.
So what's toasting my RAM?
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