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Title: Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: AlanS17 on June 28, 2004, 07:02:33 pm

I've seen arcade manuals on CD advertised, and I think that's probably what I'm looking for. I'll restoring several games, and would like wiring diagrams, etc. for them.

Can anybody point me in the right direction? Does anybody have one of these CD's? The games I need are:

Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man
Galaga/Galaxian
Joust
Defender
Dig Dug
Zookeeper

... or Taito games for the generic green cab or anything else that used one of the cabinets listed above.

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: SirPeale on June 28, 2004, 07:03:31 pm

Check KLOV.  Some of the games have PDF links to their manuals.

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: saint on June 28, 2004, 09:33:18 pm

Uploading to here now:

http://www.arcadecontrols.net/Files/Manuals

http://www.arcadecontrols.net/Files/Pinouts

http://www.arcadecontrols.net/Files/Switch-Settings

Various bits of stuff I've collected in all three directories.

It's 9:30 Eastern right now, give it till 10:00 PM Eastern...

Cheers!

--- saint

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: JoyMonkey on June 28, 2004, 09:57:41 pm

Not to mention here:
http://arcarc.xmission.com/

I think it's the biggest collection of manual PDFs that I've seen.

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: XtraSmiley on June 28, 2004, 11:19:45 pm

If anyone can track down an Atar Space Lords manual online or upload it, I would be very greatful!

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: AlanS17 on June 28, 2004, 11:21:25 pm

Quote from: saint on June 28, 2004, 09:33:18 pm

Uploading to here now:

http://www.arcadecontrols.net/Files/Manuals

http://www.arcadecontrols.net/Files/Pinouts

http://www.arcadecontrols.net/Files/Switch-Settings

Various bits of stuff I've collected in all three directories.

It's 9:30 Eastern right now, give it till 10:00 PM Eastern...

Cheers!

--- saint

You're just way to cool for words!!! That's EXACTLY what I was looking for!!!  ;D

Here's a slightly harder task, though... Anybody know where to get a manual for a sit-down version of Super Hang-On?

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: SaiNRuB on June 29, 2004, 12:05:31 am

Word around the grapevine is you scored big on a lil warehouse action buddy. Lets see the loot you scored, I love that sh^t!



Edit: Found it and loving it, way to go!

------->Link (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=20860;start=msg171521#msg171521)

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: eb on June 29, 2004, 01:26:54 am

Rather than kill the xmission site's bandwidth, you can download those arcade manuals in a torrent...

http://www.hqscansorg.org/

Just a thought :)

Anyone stumbled across the NBA Jam manual + extras? Hard one to find it seems :(

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: JoyMonkey on June 29, 2004, 07:01:47 am

Quote from: eb on June 29, 2004, 01:26:54 am

Rather than kill the xmission site's bandwidth, you can download those arcade manuals in a torrent...
http://www.hqscansorg.org/

My bad, I found that (directory) address through Google, not realizing it was attached to a site. I'll change the link I posted...

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: Jakobud on June 29, 2004, 02:05:14 pm

These are kind of tricky to find on arcadedocs.com, but here are my results:

http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/P/Pac-Man.pdf
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/P/Pac-MsPac-ts-p2.pdf
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/G/Galaga.pdf
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/D/DefenderSetupBookletUSA.pdf
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/D/Defender-Later-Series-Setup-Booklet.pdf
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/D/defender-theory-of-operation-early-pcbs.pdf
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/D/DigDug.pdf
http://www.arcadedocs.com/vidmanuals/Z/Zookeeper.pdf

Title: Re:Where can I find arcade manuals for cheap/free for restoring purposes?
Post by: eb on June 30, 2004, 09:05:33 pm

Months of searching later... it exists!  ;D

http://www.crazykong.com/manuals/manuals%20h-q/page2.html