Ks Arcade

[DanP]

EDOT isn't particularly unreliable or (well so far) difficult to fix. It does have a lot of things do go wrong though, so seeing a fully working (all the lights, flashers, etc) one is pretty rare. Mine is all working bar one blacklight (just cos it's so hard to get at), which took a fair bit of effor to achieve I must admit. Since it's been working it's been rock solid - there that's jinxed it!

K's arcade - great collection, so have you got two Star Riders now or did I misread that?

Dan

P.S Please sort out that Tempest control panel!!!DanP2011-03-18 10:05:27

 

[guddler]

As far as I remember the running lights are meant to pop for a pass time (did in the arcades) but once you upgrade all the transistors on the little pcb, either to or from TIP122? it should stay fixed after that vi did Bruces for him years ago.

And the pcbs are ok, so I agree, EDIT is unfair to include as one of the most unreliable games going.

 

[guddler]

Bloody spell checker!!!

 

[karlcdoe]

So, I finally got round to fixing this:

I ended up fixing the boardset that died at the meet of 2003; Turns out the constant boot to garbage / resetting was caused by corrosion and presumably my aggressive gaming style snapping the leg off the T-11 processor....

in belated answer to earlier questions I do have two star riders and no I haven't fixed the CPO on the Tempest yet

 

[frothmeister]

Wow a 720.

Very jealous dude, that's an awesome machine.

I can't believe this one completely passed me by. There was never one of these in my home town arcades despite there being about big 10ish ones with pretty much every other game you could think of at the time.

I was well into skateboarding back then too, it would probably have taken all my spare cash if there was one.

 

[karlcdoe]

This was my 1st or 2nd dedicated cab as I could no longer find one at the arcades or fairgrounds to play. I seem to remember making my brother drive to great yarmouth in a Bedford Midi to pick this one up as I was too young to hire a van at the time....

 

[DanP]

I'm sure I played that 720 when I stopped by your gameroom a couple of years ago. If it died in 2003 I guess that means it was at least EIGHT years ago!?!? Gulp!

Dan

 

[Alpha1]

I want your 720.

 

[karlcdoe]

I'm sure I played that 720 when I stopped by your gameroom a couple of years ago. If it died in 2003 I guess that means it was at least EIGHT years ago!?!? Gulp!

Dan

Nope, it was working more recently than that but the boarset that died in 2003 was 'fixed' by Chris Toseland supplying a set of untested boards which were swapped about until we found the two halves of one good set. But that set died too and this one was the easiest to repair

 

[karlcdoe]

I want your 720.

I'm surprised you haven't got one by now, you seem to have pretty much everything else made by Atari

 

[d-type]

What is it with the 720? I had one of those about 10 years ago and couldn't sell it for toffee. In the end I swapped it with XY-Man for an oscilloscope and some biscuits. It was top condition too. Still have the 'scope tho.

 

[karlcdoe]

What is it with the 720? I had one of those about 10 years ago and couldn't sell it for toffee. In the end I swapped it with XY-Man for an oscilloscope and some biscuits. It was top condition too. Still have the 'scope tho.

It's a great game, with a pretty impressive array on soundtracks for it's day and age. I've always been a fan but maybe it's not to everyones taste or non skaters are put off by the skating theme (my mate was a skate fanatic which helped). The controller is a pig to get used to for some people but I'd already got used to thrashing the hell out of it at the travelling fairground that used to come to Dorking when I was a kid (those were the days eh?).

 

[Space Ace]

Fantastic collection, wonderful stuff.

The Galaxy Ranger and Space Ace uprights I am extremely jealous of and appear to be in great order. Love the old Laserdisc games.

 

[stevearcade]

Good stuff man, lovely selection of machines you've got.

 

[karlcdoe]

Ta. The Space Ace has typical chunks missing out of the bottom and a pal disc with rot and 3x knackared phillips players (which are pretty sh*te players and I got fed up with fixing them) I have it hooked upto EuroDL and a Sony player but haven't managed to persuade it to produce colour output. I also have the parts to run it as a DL.

I guess the Aston belt is almost new inside, the player was NOS when I got it but it's currently running Super Don Quixote I can't get to it at the moment as there is another cab in front of it (doh!)

 

[gridrunner]

Some beautiful games here. I noticed a VP931 nestling inside some bubble wrap. Those players need exorcising, not fixing. I nurse a hatred of those things I'll take with me to my grave

Mind you it could be a pioneer - but I shuddered when I saw it, even inside the bubble wrap - so my money's on the Philips

 

[Alpha1]

Some beautiful games here. I noticed a VP931 nestling inside some bubble wrap. Those players need exorcising, not fixing. I nurse a hatred of those things I'll take with me to my grave

Mind you it could be a pioneer - but I shuddered when I saw it, even inside the bubble wrap - so my money's on the Philips

I have a loft full of VP931 and VP932 players.

 

[gridrunner]

Nuke the loft from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...

 

[Alpha1]

I kind of got given them, and to be fair they were at the time useful for Firefox/DL/SA etc. But since some of these new conversion kits have come out they are just really JUNK. I'll probably chuck them at some point (i'll check to see if they have discs first

)

 

[karlcdoe]

I have Phillips, Sony, and Pioneer players and yes, the Phillips players are pretty awful. I have managed to fix two of them in the past but I'm not that keen on exposing my eyes to lasers and having looked inside the player the servo mechanisms are pretty awful and the seek times on the DL player seem slow. I'd never throw them away unless I completely ran out of space though as they are part of the original cabinet and would go with it should I ever sell it. If nothing else you could stick the whole thing in a museum with the Phillips alongside titled 'where it all went wrong'

Also, my experience so far with alternate players is pretty suspect, it seems some of the later Sony players output a signal that the PAL SA/DL PCB doesn't seem to like syncing in colour. That's not cool.
The Pioneer players are generally pretty good and the servo assembly is much better.