I'M FINALLY IN THE CLUB BITCHES!!!
My second system 11 game, goes opposite of the Swords of Fury. Been patiently waiting for a decently priced one now for a WHILE. She is ugly as all hell but has a nice ass, I mean cab, and mostly works. Bought from Pindoctor as a complete project, as is condition unknown. Was missing cab head mounting hardware and cab head locking hardware - picked up some comparable replacements at home depot.
Took a while to get the head back on and plug in all the harnesses - luckily they are key'd mostly. Inspected fuses and searched for shorts. Noticed a few fried connectors - expected and I will have to deal with those eventually. Battery holder was removed and replaced with remote terminal - getting a little nervous now that someone may have given up on fixing their mpu - heh. Inside of cab appears to have been cleaned before and it looks like this machine has been serviced many times based off of loose wire and connectors / terminals left in the cab lol. Betson service tags all on the inside of the backbox.
First power on... dreaded adjustment failure. Replaced batteries (which felt full btw but whatever, tossed them) and loaded factory settings and woot - attract mode! Bottom row of scoring display is out so kinda hard to navigate the test menus. Coin door massively hacked - missing coin switches and mech hardware, had to blind set Free Play. Free Play set, game wont start. Assume its complaining about the balls - ball trough not recognizing the balls are loaded. Need to troubleshoot. Manually kicked balls around to finally forced a game start somehow - sounds music solenoids game in general everything is working. OK. GOOD. BAD ASS!~ Gamble Paid Off! A Working Taxi project for $1,150. This game is *never* leaving my collection!
Prevailing Issues that need to be rectified:
- Investigate / troubleshoot bottom row of scoring displays being out. I quickly read this could be an issue on the power board. The other displays are bright and sharp.
- Investigate / troubleshoot ball trough area...
- Poor poor playfield... 70% alcohol and shop rag didn't even put in a dent. May have to carefully magic eraser. I do not want to use an orange degreaser as even on Ms. Pac cabs I noticed it eats the paint. But if I quickly clean with magic eraser and wipe with water it could be fine