Working through cabinet touch up while I wait on board parts.

Before and after. Not perfect but blends in a lineup now.

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Looks great!

I fixed mine! It works! I did the board work! It was a diode you can get on Amazon overnight for less than a bigmac. Still have a few extra parts coming via Marcos.

Here is a video on how I diagnosed mine and how I fixed mine.

Thanks all!

What kind of paint do you use on the cabinet?

Soon finish with my cabinet Restoration.
The last one i will ever do

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This touchup is a mix of Hobby Store (Micheal's) craft store paint. "Americana" brand. Stuff is .99 to 1.99 for a few ounce bottle. I usually take photos and try to match at the store the best I can but used what I had on hand, so some sort of red, green, blue, yellow, black, grey, and white mixed together. The primary colors are not too far off, but black is "Americana Black Gloss". The blue was the hardest to get, and for me was about 10 parts generic blue, 1 part grey, and 1 part green. Yes there is a tad of green in that blue. The whites in Nintendo are about 10 parts white to 1 part grey mixed on a plate. I generally use wooden toothpicks for "detail" work. If you are new to touching up like this I'd suggest starting with the black as its the easiest to touch up and just use a toothpick to paint and go slow. I probably spent 2 hours touching up the whole cabinet.

Or Lucxor above me did it the right way.

Great video! Thanks for sharing your issue and repair. It must be the time of year because my Mario dmd died yesterday out of the blue. I haven't had time to take a look at it yet.

Check the easy stuff first. Fuse F3 and F4 in the bottom of the cabinet. 3/8 amp fuses. My F3 looked good but was blown when tested with a meter.

Cabinet touched up, LEDs in, dmd fixed, toys on playfield, art blades in, new rubbers, shopped out, kid tested and approved. Seems to be a kid magnet. Another 2 weeks for any last issues to show up then off to the York show for freeplay.

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Looks great!

I know everyone knows it but new movie is coming 2023.

Does someone has a scan of the Orginal cabinet art? (Not the bad reprint)
I have done some scanns but missed some parts.
Working on recreating it and want to do it as orginal as possible. Would be thankfull if anyone could help.

Found the files . BIN file for SMB game ROM and display ROM if anyone knows where to find them. I have an EPROM burner. Anyone know the differences in the versions of the game ROMs. I saw that V2 is harder but there is also a V3?

I have also been searching for this. I’d love a copy to redo my cabinet.

My display ROM is marked DSPROM without the /2 . All the ROM files I see are /2 . Can someone look to see if their ROM chip is marked /2 .

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I think mine is /5. I got the latest rom from PBR. I’m sure it don’t really matter too much, but I’m sure a few small bugs were fixed with the later roms.

Picking up a Mushroom World tomorrow...anybody know of an LED kit I can buy, or does anyone know where I can find a lamp location map so that I can assemble LED replacements for the lamps? Thanks in advance...

The bulbs are #44 and #89 for flashers. Comet 2smd sunlight look nice in this game.
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There are also 3 flashers and 10 bulbs on the back plate I don't see mentioned. This is the one place that colored bulbs look great, or buy bulb covers.
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Thank you VERY much!

Small correction, Gottlieb games use #67 for the flashers. Don't use a #89 since the circuit isn't designed for them.

That is correct for incandescent, as the 67 is for 13.5V and 89 for 12V. For LED, I'm not sure it matters. The 89 LEDs will run on either 12 or 13.5V without lifetime issues to my knowledge. I'm not sure if anyone sells an LED specifically for 67.

With that said...89 LED flashers are usually stupid bright in the Gottlieb 67 sockets....I actually left mine as incandescent.

Agree 100%.

I know it’s completely subjective, but I think LED flashers in any game from any manufacturer is just too much. They just don’t have that “heated pulse” aesthetic that incandescent flashers deliver on.

Gottliebs specifically seem to have a longer duty cycle on their flashers (hence another reason to use the longer lasting #67), and LEDs are straight up just too intense.

I like LED flashers in SMB backbox and I don’t think it’s too bright. But the flashers in the playfield flasher domes is crazy bright. I think if you do flashers in the playfield, the pipe covers is a must. I sell them for $25 or you can find the plans and 3D print them yourself. I think they would fit Mushroom world, but I’ve never looked to see. The covers help direct the flasher light upwards and make the pipes look awesome, like Mario is about to come out of them.

Please let me know if you would like to sell your game, would love to buy it. Have games to trade or purchase outright

Stupid question o' the day: How the hell do you get to the menu to make game adjustments or raise the sound volume on a Mushroom World? Are there buttons on the coin door? Because mine sure as shit doesn't have any.

Just finished a flipper rebuild and can't do something this simple. Super frustrating. Thanks in advance for any help!

Should be inside the door upper right. Volume nob and menu button.
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...aaaaand that's where it was hiding. Thanks so much!

Follow up question: I can only see self tests, lamp tests, etc. How do I set number of balls and other settings. First Gottlieb SS so I'm sorry for the basic questions.

(Previous owner had it set to like 10 balls so it's totally annoying...)

Menu button, left flipper, then menu button should cycle the adjustments. Slam tilt switch or power off to exit after making changes.

If it gets too easy put it on 1 ball, set 46 to hard and 48 to on. If you don't complete the world drops before the time runs out your flippers die. Great way to play adults for a high score.

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Thanks again. And sorry to clutter up this thread with my inanity.

When I first got mine (before I sold it recently) I grabbed a manual and just went through each menu and adjusted everything. The Gottlieb menus are not the most user friendly as you see, but the manual is pretty good. If you don't have one, I suggest grabbing a beat up paper copy to keep inside the coin door. I used mine regularly when fixing my machine up.

I got a manual, but it didn't really show the menu button location or how to navigate the menu. Just what all the menu items were....and a ton of schematics. Steep learning curve for me on these Gottlieb SS games so I appreciate all the help in this thread.

Hey folks. Will someone please confirm the length of the legs on their SMB? Are they 31" or 28" long. I may have painted the wrong lengths.
Thanks

Manual says (4) 4337 legs, which Marco has listed as 27 3/8".

Here is my nearly completed SMB. I can't take much credit for how good it looks as my long time tech literally took if from a box of parts and junk cabinet to looking like this.

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Looks great!!

Where did you find the decals for the cabinet? I've been looking for some for mine!

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I as well. Would love to find these!

I work on some for my self, to get as close as possible to the original to get the errors out.
I have the sides Ready but i miss some scans of The backbox sides and the front.
But i will not be finished soon.

You could check out https://xianek.eu/

The decals do have some mistakes. It would be nice if a better version comes available.

I have eliminatet the errors. Redrawn the howl thing with hig res scans from an orginal. Every line is where it shold be. Every part overlaps as it should. Also i made the dot patern like on the original. I can add some pictures tomorrow.

But still theres a lot of work and the first print will show if i get the colors rigth.

So soonest will be in about 2 to 3 Months. Hardest part is to get the Scanns. Becaus there can be done a lot wrong while scanning.
Hope i soon have the time to do these.

Awesome. Keep us posted!

Can someone please send me the photo with component list for the display board? It will save me 2 hours driving. Please..
Im fixing a game that I sold and already miss. I have the board for hv rebuild and repairing because it blows fuses. the game with its manual is away. Im a fool for didn't get the manual until bringing the board back.
It's on a location (sort of) so I used a replacement board meanwhile.

PM sent

Just some details

Left old / rigth new

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Thank you guys for the help. Really appreciate it.
Going next week to check the repair.

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Hi,
I am really not familiar with the gottlieb system menu, can someone explain me how to set the game in free play? thanks!

What kinda of dmd do you have?

It's PIN2DMD , I bought it from a guy in Canada who builds the kit for you.