New Restoration

[toolaa]

I picked up this Super Sprint Cabinet from coinopwarehouse today.  I thought it would make a great MAME cabinet, but when I looked closer inside when I got it home it looks like it's in really good shape.  It has all the boards and the board led's come on when powered up.  The screen looks in great shape and it's a medium res monitor with no burn-in.  However it does not show any signs of life and there is no sound when I hit the coin buttons.

Before I choose a direction I would like some opinions.

1) Any quick way to isolate the problem to either the monitor or the boards?

2) If I wanted to use it as a MAME machine, is there any way to use all three optical wheels to play Super Sprint in MAME?

3) If I can get the actual Super Sprint board working does anyone have any ideas to actually create some switch to change between MAME and the existing board?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

John

[toolaa]

OK after about 30min of looking arround I found a loose wire going to one of the boards.  I turned it back on and I'll be damn the thing works.  Holy $h!T 

Looks like there are still a few gremlins somewhere because the monitor flickers and seems a bit on the dull side and the controllers seem to be a bit jittery.

I'm still wondering if there would be some way to add a PC inside and switch easily back and forth between MAME and the origonal board. 

[Bones]

That's a great find and it sounds like you are sorting out the issues. I would get it going and keep it original and find another el'cheapo to mame.

[Fig]

My son would LOVE to have a game like that. Good find keep it original 

[xonix_digital]

Wicked Mint!

-=XD=-

[toolaa]

As much as I want to play badlands or demolition derby head to head, I agree it would be a shame to mess with it. 

As I go through this thing however I see some evidence of a major electrical problem at one time.  Some of the spade connectors on the main board show signs of arc burns.  Insulation on the wires looks ok however.  I need to do more research.

[RayB]

Atari boards have alot of problems with burns. They designed the power supplies to increase voltage if it thinks it's too low. Unfortunately that means sometimes it would send TOO MUCH voltage, causing burning.