JonathanClayton
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I collected my next project this morning, a lovely HeliFire cocktail cab from Nintendo. I picked this up from Duncan (jengineer) this morning and transported it back over the Pennines.
Id already told myself that I wasn't to touch this until I'd finished the Donkey Kong 3 cab, but as weather has been hindering my painting time, I used that excuse to start having a look at HeliFire.
So on the outset, the normal will need looking at (veneer, glass top, artwork, maybe powder coat the tub and legs), but the first hurdle will be getting it working. From reading Olly's (muddymusic) thread, I have more life in mine than his, but still nothing workable, so board fix needs to happen first. I (like Olly) want to keep the cab as original as possible, so I'm a bit worried about the PSU (although from scouting pictures online, it appears that it uses the same PSU as the Space Fever cabs...)
Both control panels are complete and in really nice nick (aside from the ball top on CP1 that'll need replacing, and a small scuff as well).
Original coin mech is here along with a relatively tidy coin door (just a small bend on the lip):
Tucked away in that last picture we can see the credit count, which on this one is showing a nice low number:
The instruction sheets are still stapled (albeit a rusty set of staples) to the inside of the lid:
The lid itself will need some work as it's gained a few additional screws over the years, that I'll replace with headless nails and gorilla glue!
The monitor is in lovely condition with zero burn (not surprising with the low play count):
And to match Olly's thread, a pic of the serial number (oddly, the next sequential number):
It looks the same as Olly's inside so I won't bother posting those pics (until I've got a comparison shot atleast), but it'll put a couple up of the boards. It appears that one of the boards gained some damaged traces at some point:
Which explains the additional green wire fixes on the reverse of this board:
There's also what appears to be an empty IC socket???
That's about as far as I'm going to get for now. I don't really want to start doing any major cabinet work whilst I have an upright Nintendo in pieces in my kitchen, so I'll start by finding someone to see if they can fix the board and get the game running.
Id already told myself that I wasn't to touch this until I'd finished the Donkey Kong 3 cab, but as weather has been hindering my painting time, I used that excuse to start having a look at HeliFire.
So on the outset, the normal will need looking at (veneer, glass top, artwork, maybe powder coat the tub and legs), but the first hurdle will be getting it working. From reading Olly's (muddymusic) thread, I have more life in mine than his, but still nothing workable, so board fix needs to happen first. I (like Olly) want to keep the cab as original as possible, so I'm a bit worried about the PSU (although from scouting pictures online, it appears that it uses the same PSU as the Space Fever cabs...)
Both control panels are complete and in really nice nick (aside from the ball top on CP1 that'll need replacing, and a small scuff as well).
Original coin mech is here along with a relatively tidy coin door (just a small bend on the lip):
Tucked away in that last picture we can see the credit count, which on this one is showing a nice low number:
The instruction sheets are still stapled (albeit a rusty set of staples) to the inside of the lid:
The lid itself will need some work as it's gained a few additional screws over the years, that I'll replace with headless nails and gorilla glue!
The monitor is in lovely condition with zero burn (not surprising with the low play count):
And to match Olly's thread, a pic of the serial number (oddly, the next sequential number):
It looks the same as Olly's inside so I won't bother posting those pics (until I've got a comparison shot atleast), but it'll put a couple up of the boards. It appears that one of the boards gained some damaged traces at some point:
Which explains the additional green wire fixes on the reverse of this board:
There's also what appears to be an empty IC socket???
That's about as far as I'm going to get for now. I don't really want to start doing any major cabinet work whilst I have an upright Nintendo in pieces in my kitchen, so I'll start by finding someone to see if they can fix the board and get the game running.
