Hi Folks.

I officially join your hallowed ranks on Saturday afternoon!

However, it's got to come up out of a basement. 8-(

Any recommendations on lightening the load to get it up the stairs? I'm can't use a dolly for various reasons, so it will have to be carried up the stairs.

I don't have any familiarity with this pin from the inside and this will be my first system 80.

After I pull the backbox legs and glass, what else can I do to lighten the cab to get it up the stairs?

Is the main playfield a simple slide out once everything is uncabled from the backbox? Or are there other wiring harnesses to the cab and if so, are they all Molexed? or would I need to jump through some hoops to pull the playfield out?

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

And Black Hole is now all happy in the garage as I shop it out. 8-)

So far everything is good, but no background sound ("muh-muh-muh-muh-muh-mun-muh-muh sound." as Steve Kulpa calls it). DIP 5 on the sound card is on and I have reseated connectors.

Has a Ni-Wumf MPU and driver board and Rottendog power supply and pop bumper boards. everything else is original.

I have reseated connectors and reset sound board DIP switches.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Kg

Regular switch-trigger audio is fine and attract speech is there. Just the background ascending tones are not audible.

Turned out it was the infamous "connector issues"... turns out A6J1-2 had broken off in the connector. it "looked" like it was seated in the terminal pin, but when I pulled the connector and started really going over it, it came right out.

Yay for stupid n00b mistakes. Thanks all that responded!

KevinG

Anyone running a Ni-Wumpf MPU and having problems setting Max Credits to 0 to enable free play? The "zero set" method (hold down credit and push test) works fine in other Option menu items, just not for Max Credits.

I haven't serial-ed into the CPU yet to see if I could get the adjustment to take there, but wanted to check to see if anyone had a similar experience.

Unfortunately, I don't know what version of the firmware the board is on until I serial in (unless there is a menu setting that displays that).

Thanks!

Kevin

Turned out it was a really old software revision, once I upgraded to 1.75, life was good again!

So, this may be a little sacreligious to the theme, but has anyone ever done any mods/design augmentation based on Disney's "The Black Hole".
Yeah, I know the movie was kinda wretched, but there were some really great design elements going on in there.

W/o raising the cabinet like the Cosmic Chaos Black Hole pin (Al Lewis - not Grandpa on the Munsters Al Lewis 8-) ) there is very little, if any dimensional stuff that could be done on the upper play field, but I'm thinking the maybe something a little subtle, like Maximillan, V.I.N.Cent or the Palomino floating over the lower play field and/or a some small flat vinyl of them or a Cygnus silhouette on the disk or something, just for some "flavor"

Anyway, just tossing that out there to see what anyone thinks or if it just sounds stupid.

Thanks!

Kevin