Arcade Projects
April 19th, 2007
Someone wants the cab, for $15 I should hope so, it is a deal. I am so happy, and it is a load off. I had Justin strip all of the parts yesterday in prep for brining them down. I finally decided to put the parts in either the Robotron cabinet I have, or the empty Pac-man. I would strip the paint and clean either one of them before I did so, but either was a better option in terms of looks than the one we had.
Looking into Pengo PCB Repair
Was in communication today with a guy Alex Yeckley recommended that could possibly repair my Pengo board. In anticipation of that, I thought I would finally get those photos online tonight what I was seeing on screen.
Replacing more caps on the EZ-20 monitor
Got outside today and took off about 5-6 more caps from the monitor. But, for now, I am not rushing, because yesterday at the
Indianapolis USAmusements I bought a nice working Dig Dug that hopefully I can use to trade. Kind of weird having two of them now, after so much time and work, and now I have two. But it is nice to have another working machine that I can play, even if it is a game that I am not crazy about.
April 14th, 2007
A lot of time had passed, and planned weekends didn’t work out. But finally, the third weekend of April Justin was coming down. I finally decided that I should try to sell the cab for really cheap so he didn’t have to haul the stupid thing down here and then have me try to sell it, or give it away. I have had some call backs from my multiple posts, but no one has committed to buying it yet.
Pengo at Bidding At Auction in Grand Rapids
I haven’t done a lot with this game since I had problems with it over a month ago. I got the game working for the most part, but it was really loud. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get the volume turned down low enough so that it didn’t hurt my ears.
But, when I would move the coin door, I would get some static noise. The next time I turned the game on, I got garbage on the screen.
So this week, I was looking at an auction site in Grand Rapids, and they have a working Pengo! I was pretty pumped about that. It doesn’t have the sideart, and plays the same stupid soundtrack mine does (Justin went and checked it out), but it would be sweet to get it for cheap and combine the two to get one working one without having to troubleshoot mine. But I also know a good friend of mine wants one too, and he is not too far away, so he may just bid on it as well.
So, I went downstairs and took some photos of the screen I am seeing. I also did some checking with Elektron Forge and Alex to see if he would repair a board, if that was what the problem is. He said he doesn’t work on those boards, so I will have to look somewhere else I guess.
With the auction going down tomorrow, and I without any news answers for my game, and the potential costs to fix it, I will just have to play it by ear. There are a ton of great trade game auctions on ebay right now, and an original Jr. Pac, so I have to just be smart and see if it makes sense.
Discharged the EZ-20 monitor
Got out today, discharged the monitor, and redid two of the caps.
Installing a new Dig Dug harness
Got out in the garage today and started putting in the new harness. I got most of it in, and took out the old one completely. I just braved it and assumed I could find all of the correct connections for each of the molex connectors. That is the great thing about this harness, there are no solder points, all plug and play. I think I figured out today though that I will probably need a connector for the coin door, the old one was cut off completely. Here are photos of the male end that I have on the harness.
I am also starting to think that there is an audio board that needs to go with this, which really pisses me off that I am figuring this out now. I have to try to find out which one.
