Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: vernimark on November 24, 2015, 05:05:30 PM
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THanks to Xadhoom and indirectly to Spectoman, I have a Zac Dodgem in my hands.
Not in so bad conditions but in any case I needed to work a little bit on it.
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem001.jpg)
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First of all I worked on the CP
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem011.jpg)
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(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem016.jpg)
Spraying the wood and rebuilding the missing colors on the overlay
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem013.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem018.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem019.jpg)
Then I worked on the Joystick
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem021b.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem022.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem025.jpg)
I've to say with a discrete result...
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem027.jpg)
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(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem030.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem032.jpg)
and the I passed to the coin door
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem037.jpg)
I'll skip some steps I don't want to bore you :)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem040.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem042.jpg)
Cabinet base was missing so I used the scratch of EYES to rebuild it. Measures were not the same so I misured my Astro Wars base to reproduce it.
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem047.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem046.jpg)
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem048.jpg)
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(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem050b.jpg)
THen I refurbished the electrical parts. I recapped the PSB replacing all regulators too
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem054.jpg)
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this is the result
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dodgem059.jpg)
Now I'm working on the TV
I recapped it and after I changed all power transistors it gave some signs of life.
Not enough because the resistor on the power section becomes immediately incandescent and the screen begins to vibrate.
Board doesn't work but we will talk about that in the next days :D
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Nice find! Looks complete & original.
Paul.
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I have a joystick like that in pretty good condition, let me know if you want it
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I'm definitively a huge fan of your 'Indiana Jones like' arcade book! :) :spaceace:
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I have a joystick like that in pretty good condition, let me know if you want it
Let me be 2nd in the row, if Marco does not interested in it. ;)
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Cool
In got it off the zaxxon
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Hi anunaki, thank you for the offer but after the cleaning mine work fine :P so, Paul, you can go for it.
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So it's yours Bela
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Sorry I confused the avatars :lol:
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Lol, thanks. ;)
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good job !
you work too fast, next time I'll add more dust ;D
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ahah
i need space in my garage because in 2016 I want to open my cine-resto project
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Now the game works :)
Powering on I could see the game in reset mode
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem071.jpg)
looking at the schematics...
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem072.jpg)
I bypassed the reset through J13
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem073.jpg)
So I could see board had graphic problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAFgd3QXj7g
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem074.jpg)
replacing some RAMs I understood I was on the right way
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem075.jpg)
nce all RAMs were replaced I had a good screen but I though the game reset again after drawing the maze. Running the game on MAME I understood this game hasn’t an attract mode so I mounted the PCB in its cabinet in order to test I/O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqw3-dKDqBQ
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem076.jpg)
now it works...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7S8nFktFkw
Now some pages from my notebook :D
CP wiring and board connections
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem077.jpg)
Swithces on board
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem078.jpg)
Additional switches
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem079.jpg)
:pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac:
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:spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Nice! Glad you got it working.
Paul.
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There I was....thinking BUMPer cars are _supposed_ to BUMP.....LOL
Then I remembered a very tiny fun-fair in a tiny Walon town in the late 70's during a holiday there.
In The Netherlands we used (and use) bumper cars for what they were built for: BUMP. That's the whole idea right ?
Overthere though, after mindlessly bumping away agains the other drivers, the owner ran out furiously to me and yelled in French (which I couldn't understand a word of) but in the end he made it clear that I was supposed to drive neatly in circles, while trying to avoid any BUMPing, like everybody else....WTF ?!?!?
Great work :)
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Last pics
(http://www.vernimark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dodgem081.jpg)
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nice work,
This Dodgem look nice, I don't reconize it :)
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Nice work :spaceace:
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thank you|
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Love it!!!!!!
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No.1., congrats! :spaceace:
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Awesome !
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Real nice!