What did you do today in the hobby?

[Azatotht]

Upgraded my project Arena, Lightning have a friend now.

[Sparky]

A bit of cleanup yesterday, trying to change the vibe up.

- Brought Spy Hunter downstairs. Christ... heavy beast.
- Brought Lectronamo downstairs for repair for a customer. Needs updating and a good tune-up.
- Tore into my uncle's Laser Ball. The machine was in a basement flood and I need to go over it all. It actually survived well physically, but the electronics didn't like the moisture.

The Spy Hunter has Road Riot 4WD in it. I have everyhting to restore it. But I did get Road Riot to run... so... I do have a cabinet I can transfer the Road Riot gear into. A Jaleco Big Run, that is dead. Road Riot is a fun little driving game. Would be worth saving the gear.

Ian

[Guard]

Picked up a second Incredible Hulk......why??

Because I can't say no????

[Xylog]

finally dug out the beast to attempt once again to get it up & running!

The Beast

Finally got it to boot - dead coil on one of the Game Relays. Huzzah!
Wired up a temporary control panel until my Wood Guy make me a new one. Busy tracking down little gremlins, cleaning & gapping switches, rebuilt the score reels, etc.

The Running Man

Unit works great! Replaced most of the headless players with players from a donor Running Unit. Will have to try printing up new ones. The background also needs some love.

Beautiful machine... eventually.

[semicolin]

ooooooooh that's going to be nice

[Xylog]

Trucking right along...

Reprinted playfield figures & applied with glue stick. Next will be replacing the background.

Headless No More...

Upgraded Batting Unit with more robust version from donor machine

Batter Up!

Larger hole drilled into playfield to accommodate the beefier unit. Added Speed Control for the bat & even saved the label.

Swing & a Hit

Bat looks great. Added a Handle for lifting the playfield. My Wood Guy has made wooden bats for me to tinker with.

Fully working & playable. Now for the ascet... asthethic... the looks.

[Sparky]

Trucking right along...

Reprinted playfield figures & applied with glue stick. Next will be replacing the background.

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Upgraded Batting Unit with more robust version from donor machine

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Larger hole drilled into playfield to accommodate the beefier unit. Added Speed Control for the bat & even saved the label.

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Bat looks great. Added a Handle for lifting the playfield. My Wood Guy has made wooden bats for me to tinker with.

Fully working & playable. Now for the ascet... asthethic... the looks.

Paintshop open for business.

[Mindstorm88]

Received my Black Friday gift, to me from me

Cpr real bg

[targetlaf]

Belle prise Bruno, WOWWWW

[mdeslaur]

Had an issue with SWE1 where I noticed the coin door and start button lights weren't turning on anymore, and was getting a warning that a fuse F111 Lamp Matrix A was blown when going into the service menu.

Pulled the playfield out of the cabinet while still being connected (Pin 2k is so amazing), and the led beside F111 was off. Swapped fuse, instant burn again. Disconnected the Lamp Matrix, and the fuse burned up again, so issue is on the power driver board.

Pulled out the power driver board, and two of the big power rectifying diodes right after F111 were shorted. lifting a leg on each of them identified the shorted one. Didn't have them on hand, so once I received my Digikey order, put in a new diode, and a new fuse, and redid a whole bunch of cold looking solder joints, and game was fixed.

[mdeslaur]

Forgot to mention I had to remove this hairy thing before I could start working. This information may be useful to someone else.

[Mrhide]

(Pin 2k is so amazing)

it sucks big time and killed Williams. Don't even try.

[mdeslaur]

(Pin 2k is so amazing)

it sucks big time and killed Williams. Don't even try.

Hah, it wasn't what killed Williams, nice try though.

I was referring to the whole slew of innovations that went on during that time period that got added to pin2k, including some that haven't been used since, for example the little flap that prevents the balls from dumping out when you lift the playfield. A lot of thought went into improving serviceability. Having the machine tell you what incandescent bulbs were burned out, putting leds beside fuses to show at a glance which ones were open, having a bracket on the open coin door to rest the playfield, t-modling on the front of the cabinet where the playfield scrapes along, adding an extra lock so that locations can take off the glass to remove a stuck ball without having access to the coin box, displaying an image of the playfield to show you where a stuck switch is located, standard ethernet networking for tournaments and leaderboards, a planned barcode reader to identify tournament players, being able to use the translite as a temporary mirrored glass when servicing the playfield, being able to install game updates in the field without swapping roms, etc.

Whether or not you like the two games that ultimately came out, there's no denying a lot of innovation went into them.

[mrmikeman]

No different than the first games of every new controller generation. They got better as they learned how to get the most out of the systems (SS, SYS 6, SYS11, WPC)

[Mrhide]

fair enough totally.