Hello All !

[TheDaddy]

Hi Everyone. Just thought I would say ' Hello ' As new to the forum. I have been repairing arcade PCB's for about 12 months but have always been interested in arcade machines as I grew up in the fantastic 80's. My aim is to purchase as many broken games so they can be restored to there former glory for everyone to play and enjoy. The way it was meant to be. I am currently a technical engineer in the casino industry repairing faulty parts for all sorts of machine including fruit machine, Bill accepters ect ( Very boring ! ). I also do a lot of programming and am currently working on repair software for arcade PCB's so I can keep all information in one place for furfure reference. Hopefully this will help me and others in the future. I am looking forward to helping other on the forums and hopefully getting some help back. I currently have a Bootleg Street Fighter 2 that has been on and off the repair bench for 6 months and cant seem to crack it - Will post for help at some point. One more thing My favourite games are :-

1) Wonder boy

2) Donkey Kong

3) Ultimate Tennis ( I know a newer game but its so much fun ! )

4) Golden Axe

5) Aliens

The List could go on and on so I will end it here !!

Anyway thanks for reading,

Dave.

 

[DanP]

Welcome to the forum Dave, look forward to hearing more about your repair software

 

[Isgoed]

Welcome!

The members on this forum are very helpful, so this might be THE forum for you

 

[AnDyC]

Welcome aboard

 

[Ropi Jo]

Sounds like a job to envy. Do you reprogram coin mechs by any chance?

Welcome, BTW.

 

[TheDaddy]

Thanks for all your welcomes. Software I am writing is only in the very early stages, Although everything works but need to add & delete things. Sort the GUI out so its nice. A pic below of it so far - PLEASE NOTE IT DOESNT LOOK GREAT YET, NOT GOT TO GRAPHICAL BITS YET !. I will hope to get it finished in the next few months. I haven't programmed coin mechs for a good while, What type of mecs are they ?? The ones I deal with now are all Note acceptors, Not that much different and easy if you have the software.

 

[Flinnster]

Welcome. I approve of your #1 game choice

 

[TheDaddy]

Thanks Flinnster - My score was around number 6 in the world ( 10 odd years ago now ) Sadly on MAME though as I have not managed to bag myself a Wonderboy board yet. I say yet I WILL get one at some point . I Have just refurbished my MAME cabinet and am going to start playing it again soon.

 

[Ropi Jo]

I Have just refurbished my MAME cabinet and am going to start playing it again soon.

Refurbing mine at the mo. Feel like somethings missing with no Mame.

The coin mechs I'm thinking about are SR5 as found in Barcrest fruities.

Had 2 reprogrammed for new coinage. No probs with coins but the routing is all wrong on one of them. Instead of routing to the hopper it routes to the cashbox.

Guy who did the job was ok but just a bit hard to communicate with so looking for somebody to sort it. Happy to pay.

 

[TheDaddy]

Yeh you cant beat a good Mame machine , Built mine from scratch 15 odd years ago. Had access to a wood workshop and all the tools I needed back then. Many things to do yet , Just purchased 2 guns and popped in a decent I5 cpu ect. Running well now, Sill loads to do. Repaired monitor, New Fans,New lighting ect ect ect. Stuck a decent Solid State in there and loads games very very fast. Still prefer to play games on the real Jamma boards but its not possible to own all the games I like playing. Still keep looking though ! I also wrote my own front end as I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted.

Anyway back to the coin Mech, The SR5 are a good mech they are one of the few that you can program without the need of a programmer and access to the updated software. As far as the sorting is concerned there is a few ways - You can program the EPROM if you want 8 way sorting or you can use the ' Sorter Overrides '. I haven't done any of these for ages and only ever done a few as far as I can remember. I would do it for you but I need a fruit machine to be able to program and test them and unfortunately I don't have one. I have dug out the manual that tells you how to do this if its any good to you ?? Failing that I would be tempted to send them back to whoever re-programmed them for you and explain what's happening. I am sure he would sort it for you, Shame communication is not great with them. Not sure hoe people still make money from doing jobs when they don't communicate , But still.

Hope this helps,

Dave.

P.S sorry to waffle on !

 

[Ropi Jo]

Hi Dave the daddy. Sorry I missed your reply.

If you've got any info on SR5 you can email to me that would be great. I'll shoot you over my email addy by PM.

Cheers.