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General Chat => Technical Area => Topic started by: Bomjac on December 04, 2013, 12:51:08 PM

Title: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: Bomjac on December 04, 2013, 12:51:08 PM

Somehow I ended up with 2 non-working Defender cocktails.  A complete NW from Coinopwarehouse, shipped via the ever reliable Love, ChrisChris & Martin the deliveryman and one from a UK collector.  Finally got round to looking at these yesterday.

Machine 1 - some dodgy connections on the power loom to the PCB (need to repair at a later date but it will work with a little wiggling) and a ROM board that did not work. Swapped ROM board out from other machine and bingo. Tested CPU PCB from machine #2 - this is showing RAM fault, that is for another day.

Machine 2 - No power. Original US style lead / plug broken, so cut back to a working part and new plug fitted. Power at the machine but 12V LED missing. Replaced fuse and all voltages correct. Fitted the now working PCB set from other machine and it also fired up.  Currently machine has PCB showing RAM error and ROM board that boots to Rug screen.

In the interests of QC, I played a few games on each of them. Other than the PCB issues both are fully working. Damn is the cocktail version hard to play.

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Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: Wurstkopp on December 04, 2013, 03:19:59 PM

Very nice table. :)

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: Vond on December 04, 2013, 03:30:37 PM

Very cool! I love the Williams cocktails.

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: Q*ris on December 04, 2013, 03:58:42 PM

It was so worth bringing it safely to UK 'cause you brought it back to life!
Such a hard game...

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: vernimark on December 04, 2013, 05:59:27 PM

wow, very cool!!

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: Belike on December 04, 2013, 06:11:37 PM

Well done Dave, Defender rocks! ;)

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: level42 on December 06, 2013, 05:35:48 PM

Hate Defender. Controls are insane. Cocktail has to be even worse.









 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Nice work Bom !!!

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: Muerto on December 06, 2013, 06:14:37 PM

Regarding Defender, Im In the same boat as André, but nice work!!! :spaceace:

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: Tyrem on December 06, 2013, 07:13:49 PM

Quote from: Muerto on December 06, 2013, 06:14:37 PM

Regarding Defender, Im In the same boat as André, but nice work!!! :spaceace:

i find it strange. i never had any problems with the game untill i thought about how hard it might be. ever since than i totally suck. played it again at brunos and now i also own one... but it is just freakin hard. i still like it though. :)

Title: Re: Defender Cocktail(s) are alive !
Post by: level42 on December 06, 2013, 07:26:23 PM

Well, I "blame" two reasons for my dislike of it:

1) Never played it BITD. The first time I touched an original machine was my 2nd time at Funspot

2) Having played Dropzone on the A8 so much.... it's very similar to Defender, but it accomplishes the same thing with just a joystick and (admittedly) the space bar on the keyboard for the smart bombs.....
Anyway that "image" can only print in my brain WHY WHY WHY did they go with this insane control scheme ? I don't like stuff that is made complicated just because of making it complicated....