Williams (Euro) Joust: a close encounter with the Flying Elite

[Superully]

I have no more resources, maybe i should "surrender to the dark side of the (MAME) force"

you can always send the board off to someone for repairs!

[baritonomarchetto]

In the last month i have worked hard on my Joust: it's time to play now!

No, no, i have not fixed the original PCB (even if this board testify that i tryed, at least), but i connected a MAME PC on it. No frontend, fast load (i used advanceCD installed on a 1Gb HDD on my pentium 3 400 MhZ with Joust running before the frontend loads)... i also could install Joust 2, but it's not as good as the first one is (no offence Ully, i am kidding : Joust 2 is a great game, but i wanted the game to load authomatically). The process was very fast (i put a Jamma harness on my harness-less machine: this lets me use an original board, with an interface harness i prepared, or a MAME PC interchangebly).

And here is a short video of the cabinet up and running (obviously, waiting for the original PCB to be repaired by me or substituted... damn, i was so close)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ONSEBT9mqk

[Belike]

Looks cool!
Btw. can you measure the marquee, the bezel and the cpo dimensions for me, I'm just curious if it fits with my strange Joust.

[DarthNuno]

Yes!!! At least you can enjoy the game and take some fun with it 
Advance Mame rulez for such purpose 

 

[scr33n]

Yes!!! At least you can enjoy the game and take some fun with it 
Advance Mame rulez for such purpose 

+1 

[baritonomarchetto]

Btw. can you measure the marquee, the bezel and the cpo dimensions for me, I'm just curious if it fits with my strange Joust.

Sure i can dude: the marquee is 58x15 cm, the bezel is approx 58x52. Obviously the cpo is 58 cm large

[Belike]

Btw. can you measure the marquee, the bezel and the cpo dimensions for me, I'm just curious if it fits with my strange Joust.

Sure i can dude: the marquee is 58x15 cm, the bezel is approx 58x52. Obviously the cpo is 58 cm large

Thanks a lot!

[baritonomarchetto]

4 month have passed since my last post on this topic... in these months i have tried to resurrect my original PCB in the Joust cab without success... UNTILL TODAY! Yea baby yea! The game now plays it's original PCB and i am proud of it 

This goal required substituting some bad component, battery mod(s), recrimping of all sort, resoldering of lost connections, reseating of chips, reburning of ROMs, substitution of CMOS... in addition i had some prolem with the monitor (also solved today with a brand new filtering big capatior) aaaaaaaand... it was worth it!

OK, i will turn my telephone off for some days... i NEED to play NOW 

[Superully]

great news! if only i could get the speech problem on my J2 solved ...

[level42]

Wow that's what I call dedication !!!

Does the sound work 100% too ?

If not: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=165326

[baritonomarchetto]

Wow that's what I call dedication !!!

Does the sound work 100% too ?

If not: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=165326

Sure, everithing works 100%