A belated hello....

[kevwolf69]

Sorry to have posted this a little late but circumstances got me all excited and i started posting straight into the tech and repair forum. Search my posts and you'll see my point. Anyways takes a deep breath and bows humbly to my fellow retro arcade game junkies. I've never been a forum kinda guy but i can see that in this situation being part of a knowledge base is very very beneficial.

I don't have the dosh or space to own a garage/summerhouse arcade but i do love owning my single full size Battlezone. In the few month i have had her i can safely say that i have learned a lot and have gotten back into reading schematics and firing up my soldering iron. Its been a blast....like i said follow my posts and you'll see why.

I hope i can bring something to the forum and am looking forward to learning even more.

Regards....

Kev.

 

[Alpha1]

Welcome to UKVAC dude!

 

[forcefulfil]

Hi Kev,
its nice to see a fellow Battlezone collector on UKVAC!

You shud post your high score table up,so we can have a bit more competition

just remembered i have the high score save kit on mine

forcefulfil2013-08-13 17:02:52

 

[kevwolf69]

Hi Kev,
its nice to see a fellow Battlezone collector on UKVAC!

You shud post your high score table up,so we can have a bit more competition

just remembered i have the high score save kit on mine

High score save kit?......my interest is peaked!!!! I can almost feel my fingers googling this phraze as i type this. lol. Alas my high score at the moment is a measly 62 thou but this in part to mainly playing with silence till just a week ago when i solved my audio issue. Plus those damn missiles still scare the poop out of me even more so than when i was 14!

 

[kevwolf69]

Are Braze the only guys selling this add-on? I am so getting this!!!!! Cheers for the heads up.

 

[Alpha1]

Are Braze the only guys selling this add-on? I am so getting this!!!!! Cheers for the heads up.

Yep! The kit also removes the need for the roms I think and possibly something else - meaning a more reliable pcb too.

 

[kevwolf69]

Are Braze the only guys selling this add-on? I am so getting this!!!!! Cheers for the heads up.

Yep! The kit also removes the need for the roms I think and possibly something else - meaning a more reliable pcb too.

That's what i call a no brainer. Am order this pronto! love it.....!

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Welcome aboard dude

 

[Muppz]

Welcome and I totally agree on the reliability of the Braze kits, I bought a hiscore kit for my asteroids over 10 years ago now and it's never even reset the scores on me, rock solid.

 

[kevwolf69]

I'm waiting for Scott to get back to me to verify its still 25 bucks for postage to the UK....as soon as i get the nod i'll be ordering one of these gems.

 

[RGP]

Hey, welcome to UKVAC, as you know i'm also a Battlezone fan.

Regrettably I had my parcel go missing from Braze coming into the UK, got stung with a £12 customs charge for it but no parcel has ever arrived - standard runaround off Royal Fail nowadays "it's not a tracked service but we can ask your collection office to redeliver it".

For the $25 shipping cost you can actually get 4 kits in the postal box he uses, i'd ordered a BZ and Multipede kit.

Scott is working with me to replace them and send me some more stuff but we're looking into a proper courier instead of USPS / RM like DHL, UPS, FedEx etc so at least it'll get tracked properly.

 

[TonyElyod]

B A T T L E ZONE !!!!

 

[kevwolf69]

Hey, welcome to UKVAC, as you know i'm also a Battlezone fan.

Regrettably I had my parcel go missing from Braze coming into the UK, got stung with a £12 customs charge for it but no parcel has ever arrived - standard runaround off Royal Fail nowadays "it's not a tracked service but we can ask your collection office to redeliver it".

For the $25 shipping cost you can actually get 4 kits in the postal box he uses, i'd ordered a BZ and Multipede kit.

Scott is working with me to replace them and send me some more stuff but we're looking into a proper courier instead of USPS / RM like DHL, UPS, FedEx etc so at least it'll get tracked properly.

That old chest nut eh?.....GGRRRR i wish i had a tenner for every time i got stung with import charges from the US.....robbing b**tards. My plan was to ask Scott to tag the price lower so it crept under the 40 quid threshold. Anyways when i have been stung i usually go to the sorting office and pay the fee's in person so at least there's no danger of it getting lost in the last 6 mile of its journey. Cheers for the info.......(let me know if you want me to stick those components in the post)

kevwolf692013-08-14 17:59:06

 

[kevwolf69]

B A T T L E ZONE !!!!

Yup that's exactly my reaction every time i fire her up.....is it wrong of me?