Just got my very own baby pac earlier today!! So excited. Definitely plan on reading through this whole forum at some point. As of right now everything basically works which is awesome oh except the coin door lights which is annoying but of all the things I'll take it. Any who so excited to be on team baby pac just have one question... What the heck are the two brackets under the control panel doing that I believe are not connected to anything at all.. Picture provided let me know. Thanks.

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Ok thanks guys, makes so much sense.... I didnt even think about it keeping the playfield down because they wherent twisted at all they where just like sitting there confusing me ha ha.
So keep the lockdown bar (which is operated with the key) far away from the playfield if I have the game powered on then right? if its off I should be able to live my life freely right?
Finally if yours didnt have a lock bar what kept the control panel up so that you could play?... speaking of when you go buck wild on the joystick i feel like the lock bar starts to loosen any advice on that front besides not going buckwild of course?

ok so Im half way through the forum.. take that back, just checked I'm on page 10. Its so fascinating reading through this and I'm not able to play my brand new baby pac so this is curbing that urge a bit...Obviously a bunch of the stuff doesnt make sense to me because Im super new to pinball stuff. I understand arcades a bit and i do have one other pin but in my brain i thought this game would be more arcade and less pin so i thought I would be able to handle it, obviously I was wrong, but luckily its working good for now knock on wood until I need to come back on here and ask you guys all sorts of questions. So ya thanks for all the info on here so far.

oh nice!!! great idea, i will pick some up. i feel like its practically spinning the lock and almost turning the key... maybe I need a new cam lock as well.

I did it, I read all the way through and I'm so scared for when something goes wrong with my cab, because Im afraid I will have a super hard time fixing it if i ever can, but in the meantime while its practically working perfectly can you guys help me with something very tiny... coin return lights don't work, not the bulb, read through this whole thing and the whole manual and I couldn't find anything that pointed to it, strained my eyes on the manual, it might and probably is on there but I couldn't find it. is it a fuse down at the bottom of the cabinet floor?

Also I saw a section on here about a tinted piece of glass that is between the monitor and the glass marque, is that standard? because mine didn't have that and honestly don't know if it it even needs it. thanks guys

Where is this bottom coil you speak of?

Oh ya I saw your post actually, but thanks for referring to it again so I don't have to go back. Sadly my monitor doesn't have the brackets for the plexi like some other people have posted on here, didn't realize it until I opened it up the other day.

normally i like all original but that looks super cool!!! if you end up figuring out the extra things needed I may end up copying you

oh question guys, Im guessing my cabinet has been altered but are your front and back leg levelers the same size? and if so, are they smaller than the standard pinball and arcade levelers or are they the same?

The back two on my cabinet use the standard size pinball levelers, but the front are smaller and the pinball ones wont fit and Ive had trouble finding smaller levelers...thought maybe it was a standard baby pacman thing.

what material is on the wood for this cabinet? its not just a normal vinyl sticker right? that yellow feels super cool and different than all my other cabs.

oh good enough, let me know if you recall anything more, because ya this laminate is significantly different than anything on any of my other arcades.

your a good guy man, poor dog. thanks for the link. and if and when you do decide to give this a whirl, let me know how its goes. my cabinet is still in super good shape except the very bottom is pretty water damaged all the way around, even prevents the t molding from staying put and that bums me out. the last guy had nailed it in which also bummed me out but i now see why he did it.

Baby pacman people need your help. Had to move my machine into a storage container. Just got it out and it booted right up thank God! But all 5 of the targets at the top all keep going up and down over and over again whether I'm in pinball mode or arcade mode non stop. I've done everything I know how to do which is remove all the connectors and plug them back in on all the boards on the back ha ha. What should I try next to fix this problem?

and how does one test those? Is that something that's fairly easy to explain or should I be doing some googling?

oh nice! like an arcade game. I was afraid it would be much more pinbally. thank you sir, i will check that out and see.

Sent into the service mode and went to switch test and nothing was on, when I pressed joystick to a direction it popped up on the screen but that was pretty much it. Now when I went to solenoid test and it cycled through all the solenoids, 1 of the solenoids made all the top targets tingle, and then the next made the 1st target tingle and so on but target number 2 which I believe is solenoid number 4 nothing happened and then again for solenoid number 6 which is target 4 I believe nothing happened. Does this mean something?

will give this a try sir, thank you. so not solenoid mode? Switch test mode I thought was odd, because the pinball buttons two on top and two on the sides all didnt register as switches, but now that im writing it maybe they arent considered switches at all.

As usual people on here are smart and I am dumb. There was a bar that basically came loose, how did I not notice this well like I said dumb. So once I actually lifted up the pinball board instead of sticking my head upside down inside the cabinet it was very easy to see ha ha. So now my question is where does one get super little c clips? I've only ever seen the bigger ones that come on joysticks. I temporally put it back together without c clamp and it works great. Thanks so much for the info.

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I dont have an extra one sorry, but I do the SAME THING with the whole spare parts and other misc stuff, Ive actually sadly sold a machine or two and forgot to look in the coin door and sold off a bunch of items that had nothin to do with the machine, it was very sad. its a great place to put stuff, but also very easy to forget.

I moved my baby pacman and now the coloring is all wrong. There's really no yellow and no blue. The ghosts are all red and green and everything is basically red ish and greenish, I can add a picture later but I don't think that'll really offer up any needed info. I'm guessing something came loose or needs to be reseated. This happened in the past and after a few plays the correct colors randomly came back. That doesn't seem to be happening this time around. Any ideas?

First off love the topper a whole bunch! Second off my machine came on looking beautiful today and then just randomly lost its colors after about 10 minutes of being on. Tried to figure out what cause it back there just by looking and touching and no easy signs. Haven't had time to dive in yet, really trying to avoid soldering. Here's what it looks like.

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So I was messing with things and I got my colors back and my screen looking good but now no sound... Or actually super duper crazy small very tiny sound if you really put your ear to the vidiot board. Speaking of, where should the sound actually be coming from.. Where are the speakers on this thing? And is this what happened to you? Lights all still blinking good, tried turning r5 and turning volume pot at coin door and ya nothing helps.

Sold out sadly

There are pentimoters at the coin door? Anyway to test pentimoters without removing them from the board?

Very worth a try! Will do. Thanks.

https://twistywristarcade.com/potentiometers/970-baby-pac-vidiot-pcb-potentiometer-kit.html

But sadly sold out

The or part always confuses me. Which one should I get? The slighty more expensive version?

Speaker wire was soldered and the solder came loose. Great save. I keep thinking Every time I have a problem it's something serious and Every time it ends up being small ha ha. Thanks again guys. Hopefully the easy fix streak will continue!

went to the website, seemed like they where still selling stuff, sadly they are all out of my sync one though the 10k. so I put my email in and hopefully they will email me when back in stock, anyone know any other place to get them in the meantime? My machine plays fine but then after awhile the screen starts to sag, and then the screen full on goes diagonal and blurry. I think i just need to replace the sync guy... fingers crossed.

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bummer ok thank you

is this the 10k one i need for the sync? will this size fit?

i have not sadly, but i almost purchased them as well!

if you are getting an entire baby pacman cabinet like the whole thing for 300 dollars then wow best deal ever!!!! and I would buy it instantly without even thinking about it. like you said you can get a replacemnt mpu board which is what I did and that works perfectly and then you can find working vidiot boards on ebay and klov every once in a while. last time I looked ebay i believe had 3 of them available all for under 500 bucks which is expensive of course but compared to a baby pacman machine.... 2500 not too shabby or of course there are people who do the repairs as well. I also purchased a power board from someone on klov because I thought mine was dead but it ended up being another issue and that board was a hundred i think. so ya most things can be replaced or repaired and no matter what you will be walking away with a steal my friend!!!!!

this may be the coolest thing i have ever seen!!!!!!!

friggin adorable!!!

agreed, seeing the side panels looks cool, but would be nice to see the other strips as well.

same here; been tempted to do this a few times, but wow where it is on there it is still super on there!!! how easy was it to remove and put the new one on?

very intrigued to see how the mirror blades will end up looking, please post pictures if you ever accomplish.