Hail to Galaxian... by Namco!

[level42]

It can stay in my garage (for the next 40 years) 

No buddy, you were out of space

[Superully]

fabulous, andré, gotta love the artwork!!! i've been thinking about that damaged button, i have the same problem on my deco cab where the buttons were horribly damaged by cigarettes. i've bought some stuff which allows you to reconstruct plastic pieces, but i haven't tried it yet. perhaps that would be an option ...

oh, one more thing, what's up with the "untitled" under each of your pics? i'm using flickr as well and mine are not untitled

[level42]

Mmm, I'm too lazy to name them

[DarthNuno]

Rhhâââââ! I'm so in love, this cab' is simply perfect!

I also vote for a world record attempt on this Japanese baby at the next 'cade meeting! 

 

(topic moved to the right section)

[level42]

Well maybe, in the future, but not in 2013.

[DarthNuno]

Well maybe, in the future, but not in 2013.

Aart not available, or not sure to fix that cab before the meeting?

[Superully]

Mmm, I'm too lazy to name them

your pictures must have a name, at least a number. i don't name my pictures either, i'm crazy, but not stupid!

[level42]

Regretfully Aart can't make it this time at least not for a WR attempt...we do hope very much that he can make it as our guest though !

[Belike]

Really nice, can't wait to see it running with a Namco pcb.

[anunaki]

I am in love with this piece of artwork



I want a poster of this or something.... it absolutely amazing

[level42]

I think I know someone who has a great scanner ........

We owe it to arcade history to save this artwork !

Well...I figured I'd try to fire the baby up....and let's see what I got....

Poor P1 button....I actually think this isn't a cigarette burn, it looks like there was some acid thrown over it !!!


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr

The P2 button looks better already....I really like the back-lit effect.....and the Japanese characters ! :


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr

Well at least those work

When I looked at the screen I saw a lot of garble....I powered it down and up again and next I adjusted the sync a bit on the monitor and:


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr

Not bad, not bad....there is some life in this baby !

Some obvious graphics errors so I check the +5V. It's too low. Way too low so I adjust it up and things improve a bit.

When I push the P2 button I get credits, then I push P1 the game starts...nice hack

I still have graphics errors.

One of them is no visible shots from my ship.

I re-seat all EPROMS and all the other chips that are socketed and the external board. It helps a bit:


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr

Well at least the board(set) is running !
 
The sound is non present, I only here a lot of steady noise from the speaker.

I am also able to ID this game now.... it seems to be Galaxy X


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr

I made a short video which I'm uploading right now...

More good news: the marquee lighting works


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr


Untitled by Level_42, on Flickr




I freaking LOVE it

[DarthNuno]

GalaxiaN Rulez... in every way! 

[ckong]

I am in love with this piece of artwork



I want a poster of this or something.... it absolutely amazing

There is some artwork available at vectorlib. Don´t know about the quality level though.

[level42]

Yes but there are plenty of differences.

compare:



- Colors are different (this is a difference between the original Italian and Japanese, probably not a fault in the art)
- Wings have light green color instead of white
- the Bertolino text under the NAMCO logo

Also, the artwork of the Japanese marquee is incorrect. This was scanned from Bela's marquee (see file name) but Bela mentioned it was a repro. The most important error is that the black needs to be dark blue (see my picture).

Last, the kick plate art has the "hole" for the Euro coin door which is much wider than the Japanese one.

So, all in all a good basis to work with, but still plenty of reasons to scan this baby

[level42]

...