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Thanks for the Welcome. After browsing a bit...I feel old. =D

It seems that the hobby has moved forward a bit since my time. I love the classics. Still the games that are being focused on were actually new and in play when I worked full time in the industry. (I used to run an arcade, and I worked as a bench tech for a distributor.)

Most of the time, the things I was focused on we a touch er, um...older.

Still, I am pretty adept at Vector monitors, Pinball, and stuff all the way into the very early 2000's.

But if I give anyone a deer-in-headlights stare, or seem to ask dumb questions, just understand that my modern repair experience dropped out of favor about the time the Naomi came out, lol.

-Dan
 
would you know what came inside a Wizard of Wor cabinet and a hyper sports? They don't have the original stuff anymore.
 
Not sure I understand the question, exactly. As to what hardware came in them, Wizard of Wor was it's own animal. There was something about Wizard of Wor mods, back in the day, but it was a long time ago.

I've never seen a Hyper Sports.

-Dan
 
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Welcome aboard. I always appreciate older veterans in the hobby.
 
Gonna get my feet wet on restoring cabinets. The Wizard of wor got turned to a Street Fighter 2. Pretty beat up so it's a perfect candidate.
 
I like using formica on my cab sides. It goes on smooth and covers a multitude of sins. Age being one of them. I've done that to a couple of restorations before applying new sideart.

(But I may be annoying the purists.)

-Dan

BTW, anybody got a Pigskin 621 for sale? I wish I'd never let this one go.
 

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Jamma is not the issue. Plenty of Jamma boards have crossed my path. It's just that at some point,(The late 90's? early 2000's?) we went from serviceable boards to throw them away and start over. I've been tinkering with these games since about 1993-94. Back then, all us broke teenagers could lay our hands on was the older classics, as they were considered junk by everyone. So we tried to make the junk live. My first pinball cost me $10 broken at a game auction. My first Arcade games (Rush'n Attack and Tempest) cost me $30 and $25 (also broken) respectively at the very next auction. Forunately, I was working drivethru in those days, and had my own money. (glorioski!)

I committed some sins in my youth that would cause collectors to scream! My most heinous crime was picking up a TRON cocktail for cheap, (broken) and because I had not one ounce of understanding at the time about the MCR system, I converted it to a Ms. Pacman (what I wanted at the time) I then sold it after I got tired of it. My only hope is that someone down the road recognized it for what it was, and returned it to it's former glory, God rest its Digital Soul.

I'm interested in the desuicides for CPS 1, and 2. That is something I haven't tried yet. I have plenty of boards floating around here, (I never throw anything away.)

I also have Konami TMNT and Asterix pcb's on my bench right now, awaiting parts. But I'm a hardware junkie, I never really touched anything that involved software. Never even programmed my own roms. (Always passed the job off to someone else.) It might seem strange to some, but all I really have is field experience : it was my hobby from when I was a teenager, I got good enough to be hired by local ops, then ran an arcade, then worked for a distributor. I never went to school for it, so I only learned as I went. And software wasn't my area of interest.

Although I think I'm going to try my hand at building one of Eduardo's Kubuki reprogrammers. That seems pretty easy, and I doubt he has any more. I have a bunch of dead CPS1's around here anyway.

This post was longer then expected...but I'm feeling nostalgic.

-Dan
 
I was asking because we all have some non-working JAMMA pcbs but the amount of people who will fix them has dwindled to just a few and they often are so busy they won't take new work. So I was wondering if that's something you might want to help the community with.
 
I might be able to help, but I just started on a tear of fixing a bunch of my own PCB's that have been piling up / are still piled up...lol.

PM me with the titles and as much info about their relative condition that you can and I'll see what I can accomplish.


-Dan
 
That would be awesome, we need to get some PCB repairs pro services going. I have few boards that need some fixing.
 
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