Zaccaria Scorpion

[Belike]

As most of you know, Scorpion was the most wanted Zacc for me in the past few years, I had some non-working boards, but never saw a dedicated cab for sale.
This story started with a post on jamma+ with this pic:

I started some negotiations with the owner for the cp, marquee and pcb and after almost half a year, we could made a deal.
The parts arrived after a "while", unfortunately the marquee was cracked, but it is not so bad.

All of the parts were extremly dirty, I had to clean everything very carefully




There was also a 10 p coin insert glued to the top of the cpo

[Belike]

Meanwhile I also gave a try to the pcb with a Konami to jamma adapter

Yeah, it is working, but no sounds.
It was time to do the second half of the job, I have a second Space Station cab with a Scramble pcb and a Starsplash marquee, the plan is to translpant the parts to this.

As you can see, the sides have some scratches, but I can live with those

[Belike]

After removing all the stuff from the cab, I realized, that the tube holder is completely missing from this one

Fortunately I had some spare holders, just they were a bit narrow for Zacc cabinets.
My first thought was to glue some wood to each sides, but at the end I found a really funny solution with some metal stuff.



Installed a plug from a broken hairdryer

And fired it up

[Belike]

Then came the horror, the plug was too big for the Zacc connector

Fortunately I found a smaller plug and installed it, it worked great.

Installed the cp and the working pcb from Thomas (Love) and I thought the time has come to play Scorpion, but I only saw this

Inspired by Etienne's nice tutorial, removed the psu and measured the rusty 7805 +5V regulator, there was only 4.5 V and I also realized that CN1 female connector is missing, the wires were soldered directly to the pcb.




I started to look after a 8 pin connector, but finally there was only a 6 pin one from a broken tube and as this psu only uses 6 wires, I hacked that.

[Belike]

Advised by my old friend, replaced the 7805 regulator with an LM323K and fired up the cab again. (please turn up the volume)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atHxHtuPlx8
Yeeeeeahhhhhhhhhhh baby, I have a working Scorpion!!

[Belike]

Pics also uploaded to Klov, let's hope Muerto make them published.

[SeTTleR]

Yeah congrats! What a nice catch! Have fun playing (and learning ) the game.

[Belike]

Yeah congrats! What a nice catch! Have fun playing (and learning ) the game.

Try it out with hand.

[level42]

GREAT !!!!

That socket is typical Italian, middle pin is earth and the pins will only accept the smaller flat plugs. Don't forget to hook up the earth of the metal to a ground somewhere for your safety.

Love the voice, sounds very clear, it sounds like a Speak & Spell so I guess it's a TI voice synth.

Game looks very interesting and challenging !!

[Robinholland]

WOW a working scorpion 
Do you sale the scramble cp ?

[Etienne MacGyver]

I totally love it !

Very creative on the PS connector and the Marquee light  

Love MacGyver style solutions !

Is there no dedicated bezel for scorpion ?

I am off to give it a try in mame, it looks like a nice space shooter !

Eurocade Material ?? 

[Muerto]

Very nice Bela! good job in getting it working!!!!!
As for pictures on KLOV i gave up hope some time ago, and started something else... 

[Etienne MacGyver]

Looks like you need to swap the bezel for a spacestation model...

Pic on klov:

[DarthNuno]

AWESOME!

I finally have the name of that game : SCORPION!
I had memories of that game I used to play in Italy long long long time ago.
That game was located in the only pub of the small village 'Poggio Picenze' (L'Aquila).
Almost every day, most of the the villagers were in this pub for watching TV together, player cards games, eating ice cream (Italian ones are the best in the world, no doubt about it), ... and of course they was a video game. Guess what I was doing at this pub all the day during my holiday there? mhhhu  
I had memories about a ship, flying in the middle of spider webs... but also mountains. So since them, I though my memories about this games was wrong... I was just playing Super Cobra, or Scramble, or a boot ... but NO! It was SCORPION!!! 100% sure... SCORPION!

Thanks Thanks Thanks Bela!!! You make my day!  

 

[ckong]

Great Bela, I'm very happy for you. And the game looks cool too, but you need to practice a bit more 

I love the voice, is that done by a special speech syntheziser chip?