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markronz:
A friend of mine's mom just gave me their old Ms Pacman machine from their basement!  It's in pretty good shape actually.  Currently it doesn't work however, but did a few years ago.  Nothing occurred in between that would explain why it broke.  It sat in the basement untouched during that time.   So I am hoping it will be something I am able to figure out, but I guess we'll see.    Despite having built two MAME arcade machines, I don't really know much about real arcade machines.   So fixing it up will certainly be a learning experience.  Here's a few pictures of it.
















And you can go on over to my official restoration log to see more pictures, and track my progress if you'd like.

First things first, never messed with an arcade monitor before.  I'm told they can be quite dangerous.  Can someone tell me which part of it that I should NOT touch? Below is a picture of the back of the monitor.


Thanks!

Nephasth:
Congrats! :applaud:

I wonder what that extra button is for on the CP? Credit button maybe? Is a different game is inside maybe?

thatpurplestuff:

--- Quote from: Nephasth on February 22, 2013, 03:20:06 pm ---Congrats! :applaud:

I wonder what that extra button is for on the CP? Credit button maybe? Is a different game is inside maybe?

--- End quote ---

I was wondering the same thing... I would guess credit button but who knows.

I'm jealous markronz... that's a nice looking machine!  Good luck with getting it running.

markronz:
It was a friend's mom who gave the cabinet to me.  Unfortunately, I haven't gotten to really talk to my friend about it much yet, only her Mom who didn't know much.  But I do know that it is a Ms Pacman in there.   And it's been in there basement for at least 15 years, because that's the first time I went over there.

The extra button appears to have the word "zoom" written on it (very slightly, almost unreadable).    My suspicion is that someone installed that cheat chip into it at some point.   I don't know a lot about this stuff yet, but I have read things about some sort of chip that will allow you to cheat and speed up Ms Pacman so she moves quicker.  Since it doesn't work yet, I haven't been able to confirm, but that's my guess so far as to what the button does!

DaOld Man:
What a stroke of luck!
Is there a switch inside the cab? Make sure it is turned on.
Someone gave me a "Lucky 8 Lines" once that didnt work.
I found the label on the power switch was on backwards. Off was really On.
Turned it on and everything worked, but the monitor had serious screen burn.
And speaking of the monitor, you can discharge it, check out the monitor forum for how to do that.
As far as touching things, I wouldnt touch anything unless you know for sure it is not live.

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