Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
CHICKEN RESTORE LIKE A ROBOT (Berzerk) *IT LIVES*
ChadTower:
Damn, just hours after swapping those connectors, I finally find the right one thanks to KeyLayton.
For future reference, Stern used the Commercial AMP Mate N Locks:
Mouser part # 571-14802750, manufacturer part # 1-480275-0
ChadTower:
W00t!
Wired up a matching 15" harness for the CP... connected that to the IPAC4... works exactly as it should. I'll get some pics up shortly. I only wish I had the right color wires to match the CP harness, all I had was a lot of black, but this will have to do. I'm taking the CP apart now to clean everything up. The buttons may have to be replaced just because they're so beaten up.
The cool part about this configuration is that when I get the boards fixed I can just take the Ipac out and reconnect the main cab harness without hassle. :cheers:
Ipac to CP wire harness - the black wires
ChadTower:
Last night and this morning took the CP apart and gave it a good cleaning. Buttons scrubbed, joystick dismantled and cleaned, carriage bolts got the Dremel wire wheel. The CP appears to have been clearcoated at some point in the past - not sure if it came from the factory like that or if someone did that to try and save cracking paint. The clearcoat is now cracked since I don't think it was supposed to be used on metal. Overall it is probably better off for having had the clearcoat than it otherwise would have been. Buttons came out a little better than expected. I'll still replace them eventually but it's no hurry. The right fire switch was pretty grungy and had not been working until cleaned.
Dirty CP w/buttons removed
Clean CP - full working setup on bench
ChadTower:
I had been experiencing intermittent boot failures... it would get to a certain point, showing a MAME splash screen, and then just freeze. A ctrl-alt-del brought me back to the cmdline with what appeared to be a C floating point error. No way that should be happening intermittently. Then I noticed that the OS wasn't keeping the time. It was always 1980 in this machine. That usually means a dead motherboard battery. This mobo takes a CR2032 which miraculously I had a couple on hand because the Sega Saturn also uses them.
Replaced that and it appears that about 5 odd errors I had occasionally been getting went away. Let's hope it stays that way. :cheers:
ChadTower:
Installed arcmon.sys, hooked it up to the cab monitor via the VGA cable I hacked... no dice. Scrambled screen even after full boot. No adjustments bring it into sync. Maybe my cable hack is wrong but I'm not sure at this point how to verify that.
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