GORGEOUS! I'm still the same commenter viewer, new nick and avatar, but this channel luckily never changes always provides top notch quality videos! Keep up the great work, it's always a pleasure learning something new every time! Thank you!
Had a thought about the back glass paint thing. How about using an airbrush to paint? Thin even coats? Mix up your paint as close as possible and spray it up. ✌️
Before I was able to airbrush the way I would get similar results was by simply thinning out paint and using many thin layers using a brush. Really thinned out paint won't show brush strokes as much, and if you start lighter you can always add layer after layer until it matches the original darkness
Thanks as always for another interesting video. Would love to see you repair one of those EM shooting games that are behind the current job. Thanks anyway!
Seconded! I’d also like to see one of those older rifle games come back to life with your help Ronnie. Or, dare I say it… One of the bingo tables! Regards
That fancy Fluke multimeter you have is capable of testing those capacitors out of circuit. Sometimes in circuit but the readings may be thrown off by the other circuits. You can confirm that those capacitors are bad before going to the trouble of ordering them. It's a good supposition they are bad by being next to a heat source.
I had a fun problem once on an Attack from Mars. It passed all self tests, but in game play only showed a single static screen image, no animations. After a bunch of probing and circuit tracing I found that the FIRQ signal from the CPU wasn't making it from the front of the board to the back through a thru-hole. Soldered a little jumper wire through the hole and the game was fixed. The game software loads multiple screen pages in memory and uses the FIRQ signal to rapidly advance through them, creating the animations. Thus no FIRQ meant you only ever saw screen 0 ... :-)
Hey Ron...just in case you haven't been introduced to them...Energizer has their Ultimate Lithium series of AA and AAA batteries. If you have a system where the battery holder hasn't been corroded by leakage, instead of changing to a coin battery, you could use the Ultimate Lithiums. They have all of the advantage of lithium batteries (since they are) but without having to do the surgery of changing sockets/board modifications. They are pricey batteries but over the cost of the whole job, they'll probably save you time/money, in the long run.
They are still just 1.5 cells (well, 1.8V due to their chemical make up). It is Duracell where you have to worry about explosions. The Energizer Ultimate Lithiums have a shelf life of something like 20-25-years and I've seen them in use with low current draw for well over a decade and measure like new (for things like BIOS/Clock on computers). They are currently knocking around $3/battery though so they are not cheap. But compared to changing out the battery holder for a coin type...which is also lithium, they are no more dangerous.
The most common screw you with this machine was the sound board would produce sound but still give a error code even though there's nothing wrong with it. It's a weird game
As long as those RAM chips are, they might be static RAM, particularly at the latency specified (old DRAMs took longer from 70 ns as about the old fastest for a while and as slow as 300+ ns. With nanosecond numbers, you can divide that into 1000 to convert to MHz. So 45ns should be about 22.2 MHz, and you'd want to leave a margin. So 35ns should be good up to 28.5 MHz. So -45 is a little slower than -35, but it may still work.
Cool game but not my style. They seem to have nailed it for a basketball fan! That music would drive me crazy. Cool for a couple minutes but ... not sure if I could handle it all the time. great video!
It’s always a problem when the wires are hanging loose. ….. Great progress on this game. I can sense that Joey will be doing his work on the playfield real soon….. Is amateur repair time still cookin’? ….It’s been quiet of late…just wondering.
Funny the background audio music is similar to that in 'The Fifth Element' on planet Fhloston, with flamboyant talk-show host Ruby Rhod. Wonder if they ever made a Fifth Element pinball? maybe there is a VPX of it The Fifth Element Pinball VPX
Also, as a FYI - the ROMs on that board only drive the sound section. Display has no ROMs - it's entirely driven as a state machine from CPU data. The ripple you're seeing is indeed two bad filter caps on the AV board in the HV power supply.
There was a time when you'd find NBAs with their AV board robbed as doners for more popular WPC95 games. This was due to no supply of the ASICs which was the kiss of death. Seeing that being the only board pulled from the game makes wonder if this game had a similar fate and the operator put a swapped bad board in the bottom thinking it was an ASIC problem. It took a few years before they produced replacement ASICs.
Dude the soundtrack on this thing SLAPS!!
GORGEOUS! I'm still the same commenter viewer, new nick and avatar, but this channel luckily never changes always provides top notch quality videos! Keep up the great work, it's always a pleasure learning something new every time! Thank you!
Had a thought about the back glass paint thing. How about using an airbrush to paint? Thin even coats? Mix up your paint as close as possible and spray it up. ✌️
Before I was able to airbrush the way I would get similar results was by simply thinning out paint and using many thin layers using a brush. Really thinned out paint won't show brush strokes as much, and if you start lighter you can always add layer after layer until it matches the original darkness
That Tamiya paint is really good to go on top of a shiny base. People who paint Hot Wheels often use that paint
Thanks as always for another interesting video. Would love to see you repair one of those EM shooting games that are behind the current job. Thanks anyway!
Seconded! I’d also like to see one of those older rifle games come back to life with your help Ronnie. Or, dare I say it… One of the bingo tables! Regards
Tamiya does make some really nice hobby paint
That fancy Fluke multimeter you have is capable of testing those capacitors out of circuit. Sometimes in circuit but the readings may be thrown off by the other circuits. You can confirm that those capacitors are bad before going to the trouble of ordering them. It's a good supposition they are bad by being next to a heat source.
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I had a fun problem once on an Attack from Mars. It passed all self tests, but in game play only showed a single static screen image, no animations.
After a bunch of probing and circuit tracing I found that the FIRQ signal from the CPU wasn't making it from the front of the board to the back through a thru-hole. Soldered a little jumper wire through the hole and the game was fixed.
The game software loads multiple screen pages in memory and uses the FIRQ signal to rapidly advance through them, creating the animations.
Thus no FIRQ meant you only ever saw screen 0 ... :-)
On the thing you were trying to remember with the jukebox...'Optical encoder wheel' perhaps?
Hey Ron...just in case you haven't been introduced to them...Energizer has their Ultimate Lithium series of AA and AAA batteries. If you have a system where the battery holder hasn't been corroded by leakage, instead of changing to a coin battery, you could use the Ultimate Lithiums. They have all of the advantage of lithium batteries (since they are) but without having to do the surgery of changing sockets/board modifications. They are pricey batteries but over the cost of the whole job, they'll probably save you time/money, in the long run.
How many years before the battery explodes/lithium battery fire
I think I would trust the old ones more than lithium lol
They are still just 1.5 cells (well, 1.8V due to their chemical make up). It is Duracell where you have to worry about explosions. The Energizer Ultimate Lithiums have a shelf life of something like 20-25-years and I've seen them in use with low current draw for well over a decade and measure like new (for things like BIOS/Clock on computers).
They are currently knocking around $3/battery though so they are not cheap. But compared to changing out the battery holder for a coin type...which is also lithium, they are no more dangerous.
I have my "Good tune, man!" comment ready while you're reading your mail. Nice transparent colors!
Thanks dude; God bless.
The most common screw you with this machine was the sound board would produce sound but still give a error code even though there's nothing wrong with it. It's a weird game
Very cool game!!
very gooooooood my friend erick fron brasil
Need to get that Battlezone out next, Fun game, should be an easy sell.
That announcer in the game sounds like you Ron😂
As long as those RAM chips are, they might be static RAM, particularly at the latency specified (old DRAMs took longer from 70 ns as about the old fastest for a while and as slow as 300+ ns. With nanosecond numbers, you can divide that into 1000 to convert to MHz. So 45ns should be about 22.2 MHz, and you'd want to leave a margin. So 35ns should be good up to 28.5 MHz. So -45 is a little slower than -35, but it may still work.
Cool game but not my style. They seem to have nailed it for a basketball fan! That music would drive me crazy. Cool for a couple minutes but ... not sure if I could handle it all the time. great video!
It’s always a problem when the wires are hanging loose. ….. Great progress on this game. I can sense that Joey will be doing his work on the playfield real soon….. Is amateur repair time still cookin’? ….It’s been quiet of late…just wondering.
Coming soon! Thanks for watching Mark, Hope everything is well over there!
as always very interesting.
Funny the background audio music is similar to that in 'The Fifth Element' on planet Fhloston, with flamboyant talk-show host Ruby Rhod.
Wonder if they ever made a Fifth Element pinball? maybe there is a VPX of it
The Fifth Element Pinball VPX
Great it's alive 😎👍
Also, as a FYI - the ROMs on that board only drive the sound section.
Display has no ROMs - it's entirely driven as a state machine from CPU data.
The ripple you're seeing is indeed two bad filter caps on the AV board in the HV power supply.
There was a time when you'd find NBAs with their AV board robbed as doners for more popular WPC95 games. This was due to no supply of the ASICs which was the kiss of death. Seeing that being the only board pulled from the game makes wonder if this game had a similar fate and the operator put a swapped bad board in the bottom thinking it was an ASIC problem. It took a few years before they produced replacement ASICs.
Whew! No score reels to clean!
Hey Ron!!
Ah. Too Bad. No match. Nice work.
A+++++
put a tape over the window of the eeprom!
*dark tape
@@swk38 or silver, any color. As long it blocks light (specialy the UV light)
@@a68k_de you mean that Christmas wrapping paper tape will not work? or double sided clear scotch tape will not work? well clutch my pearls
It's made it this long without tape over the window, I wonder why the company so recklessly did that??!!!??? HOW DANGEROUS!!!!
@@LyonsArcade 8track or cassette, maybe reel to reel?
There's a setting on NBA Fastbreak to shoot the ball with the flippers if that center button on the lockdown bar is broken
Thank you Phillip, I didn't realize that but it makes sense!
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