The CP was pretty rusted, and as such was horribly pitted. On any other CP I wouldn’t care so much because the overlay covers blemishes. On Galaxian, however, the CPO only covers a small part of the top. Pits will stick out like a sore thumb. Glazing putty to the […]
Galaxian
I’ve never had to do this on a CP before, but I’m going to have to fill in the rust pits with Bondo. Most other CPs are completely covered with the CPO so you don’t see any blemishes. Galaxian CPO only covers a small part of the CP. At least […]
Even with my logic probe I really don’t have the equipment necessary to properly diagnose the problems with my broken boards. While at an “arcade party” down in Western MA I was introduced to a guy named Adam who does Z80 and 6502 based repairs, and he’s only a hop, […]
Another day of work on the beastie. The electrolysis made the rust come off very easily, so I was able to strip down both marquee retainers, the coin door frame and whatever that metal piece is that sits in the back of the cab in no time flat. Primed and […]
Rebuilt the K4600 today after my Mouser order showed up. Box was mangled, and I was pissed, but the contents were fine. It was thrashed – broken solder joints on the card connectors, dirty, rusty and of course original caps, I was surprised it actually worked. I haven’t fired it […]
The labels for the fuses were brown after 30 years. So I scanned them in and cleaned up the images. Looked really good, and I printed them out. Unfortunately my printer missed a couple dots here and there and needed to be reprinted. For some odd reason, I closed the […]
I’ve got a lot to do on this. 99.99% of it is cleaning. * strip down all metal parts of rust and refinish * clean the outside, esp the artwork * rebuild the CP * rewire harness for 4 way joystick * repair the wiring, it’s been badly hacked in […]
Finally, some pictures. Start off with left, front, right and rear shots before I’ve done anything to this unit. A shot of the bezel and coin door/kickplate. A shot after I stripped all the wiring and the wooden mounting plate from the bottom and before I sanded/cleaned/vacuumed. I touched up […]
The cabinet is still in storage, but since I knew the board has issues I brought it home to repair here in my spare time. Luckily the Galaxian cab conversion in my boys room still has the factory Galaxian harness in it. All I had to do was populate the […]
I swiped the 486 out a while ago for an eMachines Delhi III board. It has a 500MHz chip, that I can unfortunately only get up to 450 MHz. 200MB drive with ArcadeOS and Mame .98. Galaga doesn’t run full framerate (59/60 FPS) but with a frameskip of 1, it’s […]