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Title: ZAXXON So whats a round about value on one of these?
Post by: Hawk Daddy on April 18, 2007, 06:40:07 pm

So I have the opportunity to purchase another $50 cab.  This time it's ZAXXON.  But there is a problem.  Sometimes it plays good other times it comes on and the video it upside down, and will not play at all.  I'm guessing and hopeing that that is just in the board, cause if so then I could use the monitor to put that millipede board in to test, cause I'm not hacking up my galaga just to test a pcb for another game.

What would be the average resale value of one of these things if it was fully working, and in it's current state?

Hawk

Title: Re: ZAXXON Showing upside down?
Post by: FrizzleFried on April 18, 2007, 07:07:40 pm

Sounds to me like it is in COCKTAIL mode...but I am not sure if Zaxxon has cocktail mode.  I sure wish some local friggin' 2nd hand stores around here would get some cabinets...

If it IS running in cocktail mode,  that would explain the flipping and the lack of control... and it would be a matter of a dip switch or jumper setting.

Title: Re: ZAXXON Showing upside down?
Post by: psychotech on April 18, 2007, 07:17:52 pm

It IS in cocktail mode, all right. Just go to the game options (was it TAB or Alt+TAB?) and change the cocktail to upright and you should be OK!

Edit:
..oh shite, "a cab" ..as in an original or..? And here I was just thinking about MAME..

.. :)

Title: Re: ZAXXON Showing upside down?
Post by: SavannahLion on April 18, 2007, 07:25:05 pm

Yeah, according to the manual settings (http://www.crazykong.com/dips/Zaxxon.txt) it has a cocktail mode.

But it's described as if it's intermittent. Maybe a short or a bad solder joint somewhere?

Title: Re: ZAXXON Showing upside down?
Post by: Hawk Daddy on April 18, 2007, 07:52:11 pm

Well he said that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but hopefully I can just flip the dip back to upright.

Hawk

Title: Re: ZAXXON So whats a round about value on one of these?
Post by: Hawk Daddy on April 19, 2007, 12:55:39 am

Anybody, rough estimate?

Hawk

Title: Re: ZAXXON So whats a round about value on one of these?
Post by: ChadTower on April 19, 2007, 09:26:33 am

Zaxxon doesn't have a big resale value for some reason.  Good game, classic IMO, but people just don't have a nostalgia for it.  Still, $50 for a working or nearly working classic is always a great buy.

Title: Re: ZAXXON So whats a round about value on one of these?
Post by: MovingTarget on April 19, 2007, 01:26:18 pm

$250-$500 if you can find a buyer.

Title: Re: ZAXXON So whats a round about value on one of these?
Post by: Hawk Daddy on April 19, 2007, 07:00:06 pm

I know that I'm going to get it, I'm just gonna take the monitor out and replace the one in the millipede and see if thats the problem, and if so then I'll have dedicated millipede, and i'll get the multi-pede kit for it later.

Hawk

Title: Re: ZAXXON So whats a round about value on one of these?
Post by: SavannahLion on April 19, 2007, 07:29:39 pm

Quote from: ChadTower on April 19, 2007, 09:26:33 am

Zaxxon doesn't have a big resale value for some reason.  Good game, classic IMO, but people just don't have a nostalgia for it.

I would bank the 2600 version has a lot to do with it. The 2600 Zaxxon was the first version of this game I encountered and it wasn't a very enjoyable game. So seeing Zaxxon in the arcades, even with the proper isometric view point, wasn't something I wanted to play.