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The Simpsons Kooky Carnival - Power Driver/CPU PCB Replacements?

By brettmanahan

6 months ago



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#5 6 months ago
 
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:

Thats fairly common on Kooky Carnival. People bought the machines because the boards that were inside of them were SAM Whitestar boards that could be used to repair SAM system pinball machines before reproduction/replacement boards were widely available.
https://www.pinballlife.com/sam-io-mini-power-driver-board.html
https://www.pinballlife.com/sam-cpu-board-520-5246-stern.html
You could probably get someone to flash a rom chip for you, but you are looking at $1,000 ish for new boards to get that running.

Just to clarify, SAM and Whitestar are two different hardware sets. For Kooky Karnival you will need SAM boards.

Unfortunately the reason your game was so cheap is because as he mentioned above, the board set was worth more than the game so a lot of these got canibalized for the boards. You’ll probably be close to a grand in boards to buy a new set if you can find one.

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