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Arcade Collecting => Restorations & repair => Topic started by: Jaseguges on March 12, 2022, 06:48:13 pm
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Hello, I picked up my first vintage arcade cabinet last week and I couldn't be more excited. It is a 1979 Atari Asteroids Cabinet and it's in decent shape. Unfortunately, something is wrong with the PCB and the game does not boot. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions regarding a replacement for the PCB... I'd prefer if it was something that takes advantage of the Vector monitor but I am open to suggestions. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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I know the PCB is faulty because the previous owner would swap the PCB out with a working one and the cabinet would work fine.
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Might wanna head over to KLOV, there are more experts on original hardware over there.
To the best of my knowledge though, there are no easy modern plug and play B/W vector products at this time (yet). Arcade Jason has shown a number of tests for FPGA products that would plug right into an Asteroids or Asteroids Deluxe harness and play either games.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/multi-vector-games.489092/post-4347603
In the meantime, I'd say get the original PCB repaired. It's a well documented game and lots of people out there with knowledge on how to fix.
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Here's a brand new reproduction Asteroids board for sale. https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/asteroids-pcb-reproduction.503635/