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i agree he's done Zankor and Mexico 86 and Locomotion.
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Quoted from CaptainNeo:and robot
Did you finally get a Robot repro backglass? That's awesome news!!!!
Quoted from brenna98:I thought I should ask here before I do it.
I noticed that led's flicker in zaccaria's much like early Bally's. So, I'm wondering if the same mod I do for Bally lamp boards will have the same effect.
I solder in 470 ohm SIP resistors on the back side of all the pins going to the lights, then tie all the common legs to a wire that is then attached to one of the feature lights in the backbox.
I've done this to multiple Bally boards with great success.
Can anyone confirm this will be ok to do on a zaccaria lamp board?image_(resized).jpeg
Don't do it. That will hurt the value and the boards are not common. Better to buy non-ghosting LEDs.
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Quoted from CaptainNeo:i'm blind! You running 12 V on the lights? why is it so damn brite?
I think that's more the sh*tty camera on my iphone, it doesn't look that bright when you're stood in front of it 
Quoted from RCA1:Why does a robot need a cape?
He doesn't need it, he wants it 
Go sober shopping out this shooting the Rapids tonight. Outside the one display needing repaired, it is finally fully working
Madrid
This is the time i'm going to hate owning so many zacs. LED displays for all of my games. 51 displays total. All ready for me to build. I have a feeling i'm going to be really sick of this after a short period of time. The first pic shows what it looks like when it's done. It's my sample to go off of. Let the games begin. Oh how I love thou Zaccaria. My labor of love for my babies.
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5 displays done so far. Just the display board, not the driver board. Technically I have 51 driver boards to make and 51 display panels to make. So 102 altogether. 
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Embarrassingly dumb question: How do you pronounce "Zaccaria?" 
I've only ever seen it printed and, using my Italian pronunciation, figured it was zah-CAR-ree-uh (rhymes with an opera "aria").
But I recently heard someone say zack-uh-RYE-uh. 
So what's the correct pronunciation? 
When you start a game on Robot it says "Challenge the robots of zah-car-ree-uh" so I'm assuming that's the correct pronunciation
Lol.... Its about time someone else figured out how cool space team is. I'm guessing you got to try my old one at rons....clay?
I told him it would only go to him if i found a replacement..... I ended up finding the prototype machine. It wasn't far from the factory in Italy. Shipping and translating was a pain...but it got here.
Quoted from ronsplooter:When you start a game on Robot it says "Challenge the robots of zah-car-ree-uh" so I'm assuming that's the correct pronunciation
Quoted from CaptainNeo:the roms on games call it zak ah ree ah.
I say Zak uh rye ahh
Are any of the syllables accented when the game says it?
Quoted from TopMoose:Are any of the syllables accented when the game says it?
It's Italian and pronounced Zac ca Ree ahh.
I have instuction cards made on the zaccaria instruction card thread for hot wheels. and many other zacs.
i'm working on it. I do the games I have, and people have sent me requests to do things like acrobats, and hot wheels. Eventually i'd like us to have all zaccaria cards in that thread.
Quoted from TopMoose:Embarrassingly dumb question: How do you pronounce "Zaccaria?"
I've only ever seen it printed and, using my Italian pronunciation, figured it was zah-CAR-ree-uh (rhymes with an opera "aria").
But I recently heard someone say zack-uh-RYE-uh.
So what's the correct pronunciation?
Zack-Car-Ija, atleast that what i heard it being said as here in Europe.
Btw, why is Grand Lizard linked in this thread? LOL
Very jealous of the mystic star. I would certainly love to own one of these. Surprising that the playfield layout doesn't represent any complexities or even similarities as any other Gen 2 like the upper playfield, or outside lane flippers, or even unique toy. Understandably its a conversion kit, but still surprising nevertheless.
what i'm saying is that IPDB labels it as a conversion. If it was suppose to be a conversion...what is actually converted?
They looked like LED displays, must be the red throwing me off from the looks.
That's just it... it was not converted from anything. I need to investigate the ROM file though and see if it's highjacked Bally code, or custom code. Frankly i'm not sure why Zac even did this. The game is pretty basic given it's time. No ramps, no background sound, pretty 1979 but made in 1986. Why would they do this? The IPDB says the game was sold as a complete game, minus the MPU board (and probably the SDB and LDB and displays, which are Bally style.) The rectifier board/transformer is Zac, as is the sound board, custom boards just for this game. And all the wiring is definitely Zac. What was going through their minds?
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Quoted from cfh:That's just it... it was not converted from anything. I need to investigate the ROM file though and see if it's highjacked Bally code, or custom code. Frankly i'm not sure why Zac even did this. The game is pretty basic given it's time. No ramps, no background sound, pretty 1979 but made in 1986. Why would they do this? The IPDB says the game was sold as a complete game, minus the MPU board (and probably the SDB and LDB and displays, which are Bally style.) The rectifier board/transformer is Zac, as is the sound board, custom boards just for this game. And all the wiring is definitely Zac. What was going through their minds?
Seems like zac was looking for ways to cut costs at this time. I think they were trying to boost sales by offering cheaper games than everyone else, instead of going the innovative approach like years before. Stars phoenix and spooky , they also cut down on the traditional wire pipeline style plunge. I think they were struggling and didn't know what else to do. Offering a game without boards, had to be cheap to make. might have been 1/3 the price to sell. If it only was missing boards and software. I think it's incorrectly labeled as a conversion then. Someone needs to write an indepth book, on the history, and details about the zaccaria company. Plus, insight to what was going in through various years and stages of development. That would be awesome.
Ok Zac tech guys. I'm wondering about the end of stroke switch arching I'm getting with the flippers...
It seems that zacs like to burn up these switches quickly.
I hear that putting a capacitor across the switch leads will fix this. If so, what capacitor do I use.
Is there a better fix?
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