Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
1975 Atari Crash 'N Score Restoration
RetroACTIVE:
Oh man I'd love to refab that thing... I'm diggin' these old B&W's lately!
Cool project!
slasherman:
Is the sideart painted on ? Never tried this game....
Majoraslayer:
Yes, I believe it is painted on.
The power supply does have some surface rust, but hopefully it won't affect the operation of it. I may sand some of that off. Even if it is wearing out, I have a Defender cabinet I made into a MAME cab. It came with the power supply, so hopefully it will have the outputs this board needs. I don't think it will be a problem though.
I do have access to a flatbed scanner. Do I just hold it up to the artwork and go over it? Also, it may be a while before I'm able to scan it; I'm in the process of building a house and am currently living in an apartment. Since this means it will be stored in (or currently next to) my mom's shed, there won't be a computer anywhere near it for a good while. But, after I get moved into my house I'll have a full garage and plenty of room to do whatever with it.
Until then, I plan to remove all of the hardware from it, set it up on a table, and test it all out. The guy I got it from said the keys to it were missing; upon removing the rear panel, I found the keys hanging on the inside. Convenient!
Level42:
Atari silkscreened all the artwork in those days. Sad to see it's in such a bad shape, then again it is really old...if you could restore this it would be great. The PCB seems to have survived pretty well.
You have to put the cab on one side (that is, if that's still possible !) and then put the scanner on it and scan part by part. Make sure there are overlaps. Luckely the side art isn't very big.
If you can't put it on the side, you can still scan it with some tricks, read it here:
http://www.gamoover.net/node/73
Love the 70's games, I hadn't seen this one before.
SirPeale:
You weren't kidding. That's falling apart! You're going to have to make a whole new cab for it.
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