Hey all -
As the title states, looking for a hardcopy original Sample/Preliminary/Prototype manual.

Thanks!
-Mike

Almost weekly bump!

Yup, that's the production version. Two ways to tell -
On some games they put 'Prototype' down where yours is 'Final'. (This seems to be later WPC95 games, at least.) Other times (like my TZ, for example), manual part numbers that ended in "-A" was a preliminary or prototype manual.

If you don't want it, i will take it - I'm going to scan it into PDF anyways for reference.

It's hard to tell if they're original or not - my TZ, CV, and WCS premil manuals are all different (and original) - TZ is stapled, like yours, with color sheets in it. WCS is stapled, without any divider sheets. CV is completely bound, like a 'real' manual. Go figure.

Found, thanks guys!

That's one thing I'm going to be looking for. As well as any parts 'accidently' left in the list for the pop bumper/switches that was up above Spike's house.

Perfect example - back in the mid-late 90's, I was casually browsing my TZ Prelim manual, and found a reference to a 2-lamp board. I couldn't fathom where it went, so I went ahead and ordered it from my distributor. Was quoted a price of $9.34. It arrived and low and behold, it was the door flasher board! WMS actually had them *in stock*.

Since then, I try to get prelim/proto manuals of all the games I own, just for curiosity sake.

Drop me a PM so I remember - it looks like the binding/staples on this are pretty bad, and *if that's the case*, I'll scan it into a PDF and will send you a copy.

I don't know if IPDB will take files that don't appeal to everyone, as there is (admittedly) a limited number of folks that would find it useful.

Anyone that wants a copy, PM me, and I'll either mail it, or try putting it up on IPDB.

By the way - yes, in the future I plan on getting me a Junk Yard, and would like it to be Proroty or Sample with the magnet.

Edit: nevermind, since so many are interested, I'll post the URL here once it's ready. Likely be next week some time!

Update -
Got the manual today, and looked through it quickly. Should be able to scan it tomorrow, then get it cleaned up.

Interestingly, there's not much there for those of you wanting to know about the magnet. In the manual, there's NO 'under playfield parts' image and parts listing. (In fact, the whole 'parts' section of the manual is directly copied from Tales of Arabian Nights.)

The solenoid table lists the magnet as the following:
Sol No: 14
Function: Crane Magnet
Solenoid Type: Low Power
Voltage Connection: J133-3
Drive Xister: Q46
Drive Connection: J113-7
Drive Wire Color: BRN-BLU
Part Number: 20-10197**

** The coil magnet 20-10197, is used in conjunction with a wave spring washer, part number 20-9612.

Interesting, the crane flasher is coil #22.

I notice that there's no PDF of the real manual on IPDB - so I can't do a good comparison until either I get one, or get a game.

Cheers -
Mike

I'll be there.

But gimme a few days, it's a walk for me!

Okay, it didn't take me as long as I thought it would. My scanner's auto-feeder was able to take a lot of the manual's pages, which helps scanning go a lot faster.

The covers were torn up pretty badly - I fixed up the front cover page, but the inside front and read covers weren't touched. Everything else looks good.

Note that in the charts/diagrams in Section 2 are completely and utterly wrong. Most of the info there is for TOTAN, not JY, including the switch, lamp, and solenoid matrices! However, the matrices under Game Scematics and back cover are correct. (For that version of the manual. You'll note some different solenoids, including the magnet, as well as some changed lamp functions.)

Grab a copy here -
http://tsqmadness.com/JunkYard_Prelim.pdf (~15Mb)

It's searchable as well, but does not have bookmarks, sorry. This is a 150dpi version, if anyone plans on printing this out, let me know, I have a 300dpi version that's petter suited for printing. (It's huge filesize, though.)

_{Post edited by Coyote: Fixed URL.}

This is true - I've been playing with the 0.3 prelim ROM on VPM, and it doesn't even recognize that sol #14 (the magnet) exists. Now, assuming you could find the bits in the code, you COULD reroute flasher operation (#22) to the magnet (#14), but all I've ever done is change some sounds, never a sol, so I'm not sure where to start on that.

Would like to get more details..

It's *possible* that the software has a 'switch' in it - if it sees a a switch present, it could (in theory) enable certain features to use it. (Example - TZ's 4.0H, enabling the magnet catch if the upper right opto exists.)

Would need to pfutz with some stuff in a hacked VPM table to see if it can get activated.

Yeah, that would be nice to see.

I dug through v0.3 of the ROMs, and from what I can see, there's no way the magnet is ever used, even with switches restored (i.e. TZ). So likely it's either running something custom (unlikely?), or rewired the flashed driver TO the magnet (possible..), or is running v0.1.

While digging through v0.3, I found some interesting things/strings -
"The angel is cool."
"The Devil is A Hot Dude"
"Midnight Madness" (I didn't know JY had a Midnight Madness mode..!)
"Change rules as needed. -Dammit"
"Strawberries"
"Hi Doho" (flipper code, I believe...)
"Hi Sexy" (again, flipper code, I believe..)
"Put your 3D glasses on now.." (A reference to CFTBL?)
"Payback Time"
"Stop Cows From Landing" (AFM's secret Cows Attack.. apparently it's in JY too..)
"Mother Cow Approaching" .. heh.
"This Is A Test"
Some times.. like "1 MINUTE" and "1 1/2 MINUTE"..
"Hello there lover" (not in v0.2, but in v1.2..)

The earliest version I have (can't remember off-hand.. P-2, I believe? Would need to check my files at home..) doesn't support the magnet. So it'd hav eto be earlier than that, at least.