QA Podcast – Episode 45
This episode of the podcast was recorded on Sunday, October 19, 2014. For more information on our podcast, please visit our iTunes page at http://itunes.arcaderepairtips.com or our Stitcher page at http://stitcher.arcaderepairtips.com. All of our past episodes can be found at these locations along with review sections where you can leave us a comment on how we’re doing. On this episode, Tim and Jonathan answered your questions regarding…
- A Ms. Pac Man to 60-in-1 conversion issue
- A Golden Tee Golf with power supply and wiring problems
- A Spy Hunter with steering wheel and monitor issues
- A Cart Fury with a monitor that fades from color to black and white
- A House Of The Dead 2 with intermittent sound
- A Primal Rage board with a 5v low LED constantly lit
- A Toei monitor chassis with vertical width issues
- A Wonder Boy with graphics problems
- A Defender with nothing on the screen
- A Time Crisis with light gun issues
- A Ms. Pac Man cocktail with one side of the screen darker than the other
- A Ms. Pac Man that plays fast without the speed up chip installed
- A Multicade cocktail with one control panel not working
- Adjusting a Duncan parking meter to take different coins
- A Hantarex arcade monitor where the screen jumps randomly
- An Ultimate Arcade 2 with horizontal lines and geometry issues with the monitor
- A Sega Turbo where the cars are too tall on the screen
- An Electrohome G07-CBO monitor that has problems with a 138-in-1 board
- A Ms. Pac Man with a 3 dimensional screen
- A Battlezone with a bright dot in the center of the screen
- A Sports Shooting USA with a coin error message on the screen
- A Space Invaders that is playing blind
- And a Xevious with a dead control and utility panel
We also talk about a recent issue Jonathan had while wiring up a switching power supply, discuss our thoughts on Chuck E Cheese’s parent company acquiring Peter Piper Pizza and talk about Stern Pinball’s decision to sell mods/accessories for their recently released The Walking Dead pinball machine. Please feel free to leave any comments, questions or suggestions below. As always, you can contact us when we are off the air by email at questions@arcaderepairtips.com or by calling our voicemail line at (972) 8AR-TIPS or (972) 827-8477. Enjoy!
Show Links:
- Adding Credits To An Arcade Game (And Setting Up Free Play) – http://www.arcaderepairtips.com/2014/10/08/adding-credits-to-an-arcade-game-and-setting-up-free-play/
- Wells Gardner Electronics – http://www.wellsgardner.com/
- Ken Graham (YellowDog on KLOV Forums) – http://forums.arcade-museum.com/member.php?u=38753
- What’s My Monitor by Bob Roberts – http://www.therealbobroberts.net/monitor.html
- Lawnmowerman’s Pacman Page – http://lawnmowerman.rotheblog.com/
- Arcade Cup (Chad) – http://www.arcadecup.com/
- G07 Sync Upgrade by Bob Roberts – http://www.therealbobroberts.net/g07notes.html
- Flippers.com (John) – http://www.flippers.com/
- Chuck E. Cheese’s parent company acquires Peter Piper Pizza (Dallas Business Journal) – http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2014/10/16/chuck-e-cheeses-parent-company-acquires-peter.html
- Stern Launching Official The Walking Dead Pinball Accessory Kits (Arcade Heroes) – http://arcadeheroes.com/2014/10/15/stern-launching-official-walking-dead-pinball-accessory-kits/
- Free Play Florida – http://www.freeplayflorida.com/
- Houston Area Arcade Group (HAAG) Expo – http://www.arcadecenter.com/
Special thanks goes to David Vaughan for composing all of the great chiptunes music that we use in our content and Nathan Knight for providing our excellent voiceovers. Please check out their websites for information on the services they provide.
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