Mystery Cab: "Turbo Star", Novomatic

[vernimark]

I have this cab.
It is IMOLA GP produced by Angelo Arena (AA as on your board). Angelo Arena is a company that distributed arcades in 80s located in Imola
cabinet is almost the same of yours and the PCB is very similar.

Game is not working but when I tested it I could see it is a clone of MONACO GP.

Sorry I haven't any other info but I can say that our cabs are brothers for sure

[nilfisk]

Great - part of the mystery solved .  Thanks for your efforts and the hint!

I will definitely try to fix this one, I'll post updates here once there's any progress.

Martin

[kos71]

during a road trip we found that



style of the cab look similar to that one .

Do you know this cab ? is it a clone of this cab ?

[vernimark]

Definitely no.
What you found is MONZA GP by Olympia. PCB is completely different. Although this game is CPU based has a lot of similarities to the original MONACO GP.
It is quite rare; here my restoration
http://www.vernimark.com/?cat=40

[kos71]

thanks for the info .

I had a look at the vid you made and game look fun but hard
I have to speak with the guys but if we have place we may load it

[P-man]

I just wanted to give an update on the restoration progress..

The game pcb appears to have been soaked in WD40 in the past (a really bad thing for electronics in general), but most shockingly (literally) i believe that when the high voltage went out on the monitor, it may have arced across to the game pcb. This would explain why every single 4116 ram (16 of them) and every single 2708 eprom (12 of them) plus both CPU's, PIA and AY3-8910 sound chips were all stone dead, with many of the eproms and rams burning hot and shorting all sorts of pins horribly.

After replacing everything that needed it, the game can be seen to play the attract mode, but it still has some major colour and graphics problems. here's a screenshot update :



There's still more work to go, but its good to have something happening onscreen finally.

[vernimark]

 

[nilfisk]

Thanks for the great progress report!

but most shockingly (literally) i believe that when the high voltage went out on the monitor, it may have arced across to the game pcb.

That wouldn't surprise me, given the monitors initial state, e.g. a melted down flyback.



I've since replaced it and got the monitor working again for now.

Martin

[synonym9]

I am very curious of the final result, you will have a super rare cabinet once its done....

[vernimark]

After years I started to restore my Imola GP. Game is in same conditions of yours; more or less I've the same result on the screen.

Thanks to your scans I can check some "missing" chips. I dunno if they are really missing or not, anyway I'll socket the empty places.

What about yours?