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Friday, June 4, 2010
Kozmic Krooz'r Operational
I got this Kozmic Krooz'r a year or two ago in Savannah GA. The boardset had been taken out for safekeeping since the cabinet was falling apart. It was also missing the monitor. The fellow who sold it to me also sold me a fully working Wacko with a brand new Happ Vision Pro. I thought it would be cool to have a Wacko and a Kozmic Krooz'r. And what luck to find them both in one lot, and for a terrific price.
I took the Wacko back home immediately and proceded to replace the bottom. Both cabinets had been in a flood so the bottoms were deteriorating. The Kozmic Krooz'r eventually sat in my Mom's storage place for a year or two. I finally took it back home and mended the bottom, put the boardset back in, installed a Happ Vision Pro.
Powered the Krooz'r up and the background colors changed randomly, which I suspected was not normal. Also, the colors on the letters looked funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5iBTnfOsPo
I installed an Arcadeshop MCRII switching power supply kit and here is video of that. The background colors only change when the level is finished now. The video looks a bit more stable too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3LbQWZ9IE
I took the Wacko back home immediately and proceded to replace the bottom. Both cabinets had been in a flood so the bottoms were deteriorating. The Kozmic Krooz'r eventually sat in my Mom's storage place for a year or two. I finally took it back home and mended the bottom, put the boardset back in, installed a Happ Vision Pro.
Powered the Krooz'r up and the background colors changed randomly, which I suspected was not normal. Also, the colors on the letters looked funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5iBTnfOsPo
I installed an Arcadeshop MCRII switching power supply kit and here is video of that. The background colors only change when the level is finished now. The video looks a bit more stable too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3LbQWZ9IE
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Ms Pacman Rescue
Rescued these two ladies from a laundrymat in South Atlanta.
The person who had them told me that one quit working, so the owner bought another Ms Pac for parts to repair the old one.
After about a minute or so, I diagnosed that the old one was in test mode and plays blind.
The second one, well, all it needed was a fuse... literally... here's my fix. Temporarily, of course:
The person who had them told me that one quit working, so the owner bought another Ms Pac for parts to repair the old one.
After about a minute or so, I diagnosed that the old one was in test mode and plays blind.
The second one, well, all it needed was a fuse... literally... here's my fix. Temporarily, of course:
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
DK-Regulus-Galaga
I got this cabinet as a trade. It was a DK, then a Regulus, then a Galaga... with an inkjet marquee...
Poor cabinet has had a rough life:
Bezel turned inside-out. Control panel molested several times...
Spray painted black, and white iron-on edging glued on.
Inkjet Galaga marquee... with electrical tape...
Sir Hacks-a-Lot spares no boardsets...
Not even monitor frames...
This story does have a happy ending though. Here is the cabinet after I rehabilitated it:
Re-painted cabinet with correct Nintendo T-molding.
New control panel, overlay, and instruction card.
Virgin Asahi-Seiko coin mechs.
Poor cabinet has had a rough life:
Bezel turned inside-out. Control panel molested several times...
Spray painted black, and white iron-on edging glued on.
Inkjet Galaga marquee... with electrical tape...
Sir Hacks-a-Lot spares no boardsets...
Not even monitor frames...
This story does have a happy ending though. Here is the cabinet after I rehabilitated it:
Re-painted cabinet with correct Nintendo T-molding.
New control panel, overlay, and instruction card.
Virgin Asahi-Seiko coin mechs.
Donkey Kong Lives!!!
Space Invaders Multi
2/6/2010... I think...
Got my Space Invaders back from Melinda's. The cabinet is in really good shape.
I went ahead and replaced the ailing fluorescent fixture with an under-the-cabinet fixture and put the blacklight bulb back in. Looks awesome.
Got my Space Invaders back from Melinda's. The cabinet is in really good shape.
I went ahead and replaced the ailing fluorescent fixture with an under-the-cabinet fixture and put the blacklight bulb back in. Looks awesome.
Testing Power Supplies...
I got this Topower Zumax power supply at Microcenter. I usually run a burn-in test on new power supplies.
First I have to jumper pin 13 and 14 using the paper clip trick so that it will turn on when it is plugged in. I load one of the molex connectors with an old hard drive. Once it has run for a few hours, I clip and crimp the wires for pins 13 and 14.
Then I attach some right angle brackets for mounting into the cabinet.
I just use 1/2" hex screws and 51 cent brackets. I don't drill all the way through, just a little divot, and then power in the hex screw right in.
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First I have to jumper pin 13 and 14 using the paper clip trick so that it will turn on when it is plugged in. I load one of the molex connectors with an old hard drive. Once it has run for a few hours, I clip and crimp the wires for pins 13 and 14.
Then I attach some right angle brackets for mounting into the cabinet.
I just use 1/2" hex screws and 51 cent brackets. I don't drill all the way through, just a little divot, and then power in the hex screw right in.
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