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Block Buster

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Spent some time tonight re-plumbing the Tuni/Century cab. The noise filter and isolation transformer came with it, the rest is recycled from Keno and Arkanoid parts piles.

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Dropped in one of the mystery monitors I picked up Wednesday night, a K7000. Works, but has some droop on one side and an occasional shake. Hopefully recapping it will get it looking perfect again.

Next step is wiring up the control panel and coin door, and running some wire up top for the marquee backlight and speakers.

Changing the lineup

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Today I traded my way into an unidentified but very nice cabinet that is set up with Do Run Run sans monitor.

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It’s covered top to bottom in neat but generic space themed art. The only identifying mark on the entire thing is ‘FF’ in the middle of the top marquee hold down bar.

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Control panel is kinda interesting, with another possible clue as to what game originally occupied it. It’s got markings and a cut out on the back for one more button, though the control panel overlay is uncut.

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Oddly, the wiring harness is also provisioned for a second button, even though it seems to have been made for Do Run Run from the start.

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I dropped in my highly specialized test display and played a few rounds. Pretty fun game, but the controls need some attention. The buttons and joystick are some of the cheesiest components I’ve seen in a while and stuck with enough frequency to kill me about once every other round.

The cabinet itself seems designed for multiple possible games, and includes provisions for switching between horizontal and vertical monitor orientation. That means I can put the original Mr. Do in it too, and I took it as an excuse to rid myself of the rotten Megatack cab the Mr. Do hardware I have came in.

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I won’t miss moving that waterlogged heap of MDF.

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Bonus pic of the interface board pinout sticker on one of the monitors I traded for the cab, a Wells Gardner K4600 series. Label on the sticker is 69X0984-100, not sure if that relates to what type of interface card it corresponds to. The card itself was missing its identifying sticker when I got it. Figured I’d post it up regardless, since there seems to be precious little information about the different boards for these monitors available on the net.