Hail to Galaxian... by Namco!

[level42]

AH.......uhhh......pffff....o well, Bally-Midway is going in anyway

During RGE/Eurocade people really shoudn't give me tiny parts when I'm in a hotel for 4 days and in a public/semi-public building trying to get/keep the show running....but that's just disorganised me I guess....

I lost an iPad charger too in those days....

Hopefully the joystick part is still in some box somewhere here.

[Etienne MacGyver]

Did some scanning today..



While i was doing that i had an idea for the silverisch border, and started an experiment:




Here some detail pics, a bit blurry, but its dificult to photograph through glass..

backside:


frontside:


not too bad, but i don't know if its worth the trouble on a complete bezel..

Maybe better just use some grayscale in there..  or....

cutout the vinyl, mask the monitor part and spray it with "Action silver paint" 

The scanning through glass is not succesfull as i already expected..







Some parts are worse than others due to the fact that this bezel has damage in the form of bended and cracked plexi.
thats why i could not "flat scan" some parts.

Its not the scanner, its scanning through plexi / glass.

I scanned some other work today, and thats just fine, no "jailbars" :



Anyway, i have the physical bezel here so i can measure and build it up like i did with the Monaco gp steeringwheel decal.




its going to take a while, but the start is made  

[level42]

You ROCK !!!!

By the way, I found back the "missing" part of the original joystick. 

[Etienne MacGyver]

I knew that i gave it back to you, Happy you found it ! 

[synonym9]

While i was doing that i had an idea for the silverisch border, and started an experiment:

As I stated before (also supported a link) silver, gold and chrom CAN be printed.

[Etienne MacGyver]

A little tribute to Galaxian 

[Franzy21]

Ah ah!!!
I love it!! 

[synonym9]

Whats new in that project, Andre and Etienne?

[Etienne MacGyver]

I have scanned the bezel, now i need to find time to vector it, but i would still investigate the option to restore the original bezel.

[level42]

Awesome !!

Yes I agree about trying to give it a go !

In fact: Maybe you remember I posted the "order of restoration" for my cabs and when Q*bert is finished the MB/DK conversion would be next, but for some quite exciting reason I moved the Namco Galaxian to that spot.

I want that baby on Eurocade 

[level42]

While waiting for Q*bert parts to arrive/be done....I decided to do some prescanning of the Namco Galaxian PCB that was so kindly donated by Alpha1 (Thanks Oll, I'll buy you a good number of beers at the bar )

This baby was converted to.........uhmmmm, I forgot I did read one of the EPROMs and found out what game it was but I just forgot

Sadly the conversion took quite a few hardware hacks and we're going to have to reverse all that shit

It may actually look worse than it is.

The one thing that bugs me though: should I already undo all the obvious things (remove piggy-backend chips, remove all The extra wires, repair The old connections, reprogram the (correct) ROMs etc.

orrrrrrrrr

Should we check If inthe board works like it is now first ?

[level42]

So let's see:

1)
Here's the whole PCB. By the way Erik, I'd love to have a high-res picture of your's. The one's I can find on-line or either Midway or bad quality or also converted...

2)
Spots 4F and 5F are empty. Schematics say 2101 RAMs need to go here. Hope I have some. 9101 should be the same.

[level42]

1)
This little extra board does not belong there...easy to remove, but have to put in the right chips in the sockets of course.

2)
and this large extra board does not belong there either. That's a nice thing, I'll have some extra EPROMs after the job is done

[level42]

1)
Some minor extra wiring

2)
Some major extra wiring and piggy-backed 74LSxxx chip

[level42]

1)
And some more piggy-backs and extra wires

2) and this seems a supply voltage mod or something (bridge ?)