Initial picture. The bezel is missing the upper left hand corner. It’s in the bottom of the cab. Otherwise it’s near flawless. 🙁 The good news is the plan is to turn it into a Donkey Kong 2, so I’ll get a brandy-new one. The bad news is the art […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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I’ve been getting pieces for this here and there. eBay is good for Williams parts. Installed the marquee. That’s the extent of the work done so far. Before: After: edit: I just realized I uploaded the wrong image. I’ll fix it later.
Went out to the storage area today to take some stuff home with me, and take some stuff there to install. Opened my toolkit (which contains a 1/4″ driver with bits) and found the driver missing. I’d left it home on my bench. So I was unable to remove the […]
I’ve actually started sourcing parts for this beastie. Bought a Stargate ROM board off eBay yesterday.
The marquee fixture worked just fine with a bit of adjustment. Bulb is a bit dark at one end, but I’ll worry about that later. Stripped and repainted the coin door. Tidied up the wiring a bit. The JAMMA harness had it’s wires every which way. Whoever converted this cabinet […]
Vacuumed it out a couple days ago. It was filled with mouse nests. Gross. Replaced a couple of the T nuts on the bottom with new leveler mounting plates, as well as the levelers. All of them had holes thru them. The power cord had its end torn right off. […]
Guy I know calls me at noon and says “hey man, there’s a yard sale about a mile from you…they’ve got a game out front. Something called ‘Nova 2001’. Thought you might be interested.” I check it out in Mame…meh, it’s okay. But with all the games I’ve got that […]
Nothing to report much. It’s filty – filled with mouse nests. K4600 that badly needs a cap kit. Board that produces garbage. Needs a back door. But at least it’s at my house where I can work on it.