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| Spyridon:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on September 29, 2009, 03:26:06 pm --- I'm so impressed in fact that I wouldn't mind GIVING this to Spyridon if he could restore it again. I'm in NY which isn't too far away from PA. Thoughts? --- End quote --- Thanks for the offer, but I've got one beautiful Gorf in my game room. Don't need another one. Besides, I've got to finish up Pac-man and Centipede. Then I've got Gyruss, Galaga, Satan's Hollow, and Phoenix to get the same treatment. Plenty to keep me busy. |
| Spyridon:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on September 29, 2009, 03:26:06 pm ---Wow. I read through the entire topic and was floored with your attention to detail. Great, great, great work! :notworthy: I have an empty Gorf cab sitting in my garage that I almost MAME'd until I saw this. I have the control panel complete with Joystick and all glass ovelays and such. I probably won't MAME it, but I won't restore it myself either, as my time and budget is too limited. I'm so impressed in fact that I wouldn't mind GIVING this to Spyridon if he could restore it again. I'm in NY which isn't too far away from PA. ** EDIT: Forgot to mention that the Gorf cab doesn't have a monitor or PCB in it. Thoughts? DeLuSioNaL29 --- End quote --- Still have this? I might reconsider doing another one. |
| Silas (son of Silas):
When I die I want to be born again as Spyridon's arcade playing buddy. Failing that, if I come back as an arcade machine I pray that after years of abuse at the hands of teenagers I end up in his basement. |
| Spyridon:
If you remember back to after the painting was completed, I installed everything back together but the game wouldn't work. I had a problem with the boardset. I purchased a working boardset and replaced the nonworking one and was good to go. Now, I decided I wanted to see what the issue was with the original boards. It's always easier to diagnose problems when you have a working board to compare to. One by one, I swaped each of the 6 boards in the rack to determine which board had the problem. Didn't take long to find this one as the culprit: I reviewd the board for any obvious problems but couldn't find any. I know that heat is a problem with Gorf boards and that is why chips U3 and U15 usually have heatsinks attached to them. Looking at the board, only U15 had a heatsink on it. U3 at the top and U15 with heatsink at the bottom: Thinking this was as good as any place to start, I swapped the know good U3 from the working set in and BINGO! Working Gorf boardset. Now all I need to do is find a replacement chip and I'll have a second working set. Both of these boards only had heatsinks on U15 so maybe they didn't come from the factory with the heatsink on U3? These boards require a unique style heatsink because of the lack of space in the rack system. Doing some research, I was able to find someone that had matched the OEM part and had the heatsinks for sale. I ordered one for each set and had them engraved with the chip location because once installed, you can't easily see the lettering on the PCB. |
| Spyridon:
I just found out that this chip is a Midway custom chip. I'm not going to be able to just order it from any of the typical vendors. I'll need to find one from another Gorf. :hissy: Gorf, Wizard of Wor, Robby Rotto, 10 Pin Deluxe, Professor Pac are a few of the games that used this chip. So...anybody got this chip for sale? |
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