Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
CHICKEN RESTORE LIKE A ROBOT (Berzerk) *IT LIVES*
RetroACTIVE:
Awesome! BERZERK is one of grails as well! I have a Stern Scramble that I want to restore but am having difficulty getting anyone to scan the side art so I can re-stencil. Your artwork looks good! Does it have the original funky joystick?.. I think it was an optical stick but I can't recall.
--- Quote from: 2600 on August 19, 2008, 01:30:52 pm ---I've heard Stern Cabinets are like that. There were a couple Stern Restorations on KLOV and someone talked about that. IIRC, one person used the paint you would put on a truck bed.
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They have horrible paint jobs... artwork is cool but the paint jobs definitely on the mucky side. If I were to restore... I would definitely not want it "that" authentic... I'd opt for the clean route.
BTW you can lightly sand down the texture of the cabinet without damaging the artwork... then lightly touch up with color match since BERZERK is really a simple art. ...Then put a clear coat over it.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: RetroACTIVE on August 20, 2008, 11:22:43 am ---Awesome! BERZERK is one of grails as well! I have a Stern Scramble that I want to restore but am having difficulty getting anyone to scan the side art so I can re-stencil. Your artwork looks good! Does it have the original funky joystick?.. I think it was an optical stick but I can't recall.
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It was an optical stick but they didn't last very long. The IR sensors pointed up and collected dust as the grommet degraded so they would fail quite a bit. Stern sent out balltop leaf replacements pretty quickly. Those original joysticks are really hard to find now but I'm good with the original factory replacement.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 19, 2008, 02:00:46 pm ---Oh God Rabbibob's page is a MAMEd Berzerk and has links to MAMEd Berzerks. It's like an accident scene. :cry:
He even put an XArcade on it.
An Xarcade.
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That was ---smurfing--- hideous. As soon as that guy wrote:
--- Quote ---Unfortunately the bracket connectors on the monitor are slightly smaller than the CRT's, so there are some gaps. Hopefully I can work on this.
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I knew the cabinet was done for.
ChadTower:
Yeah... I wasn't reading too closely and then I saw the pic of an XP desktop coming from the monitor... :P
This game is now officially dead. 14v on the 5v test point, no boot at all. Worked just long enough for the seller to get out the door. I'm going to get this one working fast, though, and reliably.
arcadefever:
Very nice :D can you believed that i never played the game :dunno
good luck for the restoration :cheers:
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