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Zaccaria Puckman
« on: October 16, 2017, 02:53:30 PM »
Finally I could make my gameroom complete with a dot eater game. ;D
I saw a few Pacmans and Ms.Pacmans for sale in the past few years, but my dream was a Zaccaria of course. :D
Paul had a spare cab in the UK and he was so kind and sent it to me to Budapest. ;D ;)
It was untested and there was no pcb in it, but I had all the necessary parts, to make it complete.
At some point, the cab was stored in a not completely dry place, I used a simple fan for a day to solve this problem,



Checked the voltages, everything seemed ok.


I checked the edge connector pinout, but it did not match to any known Pacman or Puckman pcbs.
A few years back, I bought a Puckman pcb with a Zaccaria serial sticker , the pinout is the reverse of Crazy Kong and the main screen shows Namco, so I modified the edge connector to this pinout.

Fired up the cab with this setup, I had massive neckglow on the Philips chassis, but there was just a blurry pic without sync.

My friend, the technician of the Hungarian Pinball museum helped me to recap the whole chassis.




And voila, the pic is almost perfect, just a very minor vibration in the middle right part of the maze, we couldn't solve this.




There was no NEON tube inside, fixed that also. :D




Result










Forgot to take a pic from the beautiful sidearts, this was made by Paul. :D



Huge thanks to Paul, for helping my dream come true. :spaceace:
« Last Edit: September 28, 2019, 06:41:16 PM by Belike »

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2017, 03:41:59 PM »
Great report and ZZZ collection.

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2017, 06:20:26 PM »
Wow, this is great!!! congratulations Bela.  :spaceace:

One thing can't be correct though, your gameroom is complete now???  :)

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2017, 07:40:40 PM »
That turned out really nice!
Paul.
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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2017, 07:56:51 PM »
Wow, this is great!!! congratulations Bela.  :spaceace:

One thing can't be correct though, your gameroom is complete now???  :)
Complete means full. ;D
If I want more Zaccs, I have to sell the non-Zacc classics. :-\

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2017, 09:33:20 PM »
it look fantastic:)

I have the same space problem, for a new cab a zacc has to go:(
Or for a missing zacc an atari has to go:(

now I need mord room....
zacc pac&paint, jump bug, frogger are outside, and need to be in my place..
Searching Zaccaria Stuff: Zaxxon CPO, JumpBug CPO or CPO Repro
next project: assemble Zaccaria Vanguard.

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2017, 08:40:09 AM »
Yeah, space is the biggest problem for most of us. :-\
Pics here in smaller version.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QskjWQsGkMI2ouLO2

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2017, 02:59:17 PM »
doesn't look too bad - for a zaccaria. i'm really happy for you, bela!  :)
all i need is ... PONG - and a select few others: TOUCH ME, DRAGON'S LAIR, JOUST, ROBOTRON, MR DO, SAN FRANCISCO RUSH THE ROCK!!!

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2017, 03:54:09 PM »

If I want more Zaccs, I have to sell the non-Zacc classics. :-\

A man has got to do what a man has got to do  ;) ;D ;D

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2017, 07:04:54 PM »
Great piece :spaceace:

We were talking about the Zaccaria puckman with John last weekend. He made a pic of it at the Play Expo

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2017, 08:36:06 AM »
Thanks for your nice comments, 2 of my classics were already sold to make some space for the Zaccs. :D

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2017, 05:10:12 PM »
Great job! Very cool and uncommon cab...congrats :)

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2017, 10:27:11 PM »
Incredible collection.....
 :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:

I really would like to visit you Bela!

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2017, 09:49:39 AM »
Great job!  ;)

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Re: Zaccaria Puckman
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2017, 11:42:23 PM »
Great Bela :)
Really nice cab you have there