This post is going to be pretty straightforward. I finished Whirlwind a few weeks ago and it looks awesome! New rubbers, plastics, LEDs, waxed, and various fixes! Now on to playing 😀
Of course this post wouldn’t be complete without my high score…
I’ve really not been able to spend as much time on this project as I’d like. I’ve been traveling a ton for work and just generally really busy. This post is a compilation of a couple of months of sporadic work.
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Over the past year or so I’ve gotten far more into pinball. I’m not really sure what it is about it, but I’ve grown quite fond of it. One of the games that has been on my hit list has been a Whirlwind, which I’ve been looking for since August. As of a couple of weeks ago I finally got one! Though, that being said it is quite rough:Continue reading
Well overnight I got incredibly paranoid about losing the Beatmania harddrive and decided to order a CF card and IDE adapter, today I pre-emptively backed up the image using chdman, it went just fine:
We’ll see how it does when i try to write it. Assuming it works I’ll upload this somewhere.
I also attempted to 3d model one of the beacon domes for F14 tomcat. I’m going to attempt a print shortly, here it is in all its glory:
To be continued!
Well I continued to fuel my addiction and bought a Beatmania arcade cabinet. First off, this thing is MASSIVE. Specific dimensions are:Â 39″x44″x75″. This makes my six slot look tiny. I have a bit of work ahead of myself:
I’m pretty excited to start this project as I haven’t really done much arcade stuff and have left this blog to rot for a while. I’ve also found a cap list an manual online for the monitor, which I’m going to record on here for reference. The display is a Toei TC-L292
Cap list:
Manual: 34_toei_tc_l292k_manual
Cloning the HDD or finding ISOs will probably be an issue. I imagine it’ll be possible to make a few different CF cards if I can just find the content, as a lot of the Beatmania cabinets run off the same hardware.
Much much more to come on this!
Also up….
I bought an F14 Tomcat Pinball last year, and am finally going to get around to refurbishing it. I have an LED kit on the way and am working on tracking down a plastics kit. This should be pretty straightforward as it’s overall in great shape. But just for kicks, here are a couple of pictures.
Finally had a chance to make a cap list for the Toei Tc-a292s. The cap map is still SUPER rough. I need to overlay it onto a picture of a board. Right now it’s just stuff I’ve drawn on a legal pad 😛
Chassis Cap List:
|
Location
|
Voltage
|
UF
|
Bipolar?
|
|---|---|---|---|
| c10 | 50 | 1 | |
| c30 | 50 | 1 | |
| c34 | 50 | 1 | |
| c36 | 50 | 1 | |
| c63 | 50 | 1 | x |
| c76 | 50 | 1 | |
| c77 | 50 | 1 | |
| c12 | 50 | 2.2 | |
| c13 | 50 | 2.2 | |
| c14 | 50 | 2.2 | |
| C88 | 50 | 2.2 | X |
| c89 | 50 | 2.2 | X |
| c28 | 50 | 4.7 | |
| c32 | 50 | 4.7 | |
| c94 | 50 | 4.7 | x |
| c19 | 16 | 10 | |
| c37 | 16 | 10 | |
| c45 | 16 | 10 | x |
| c53 | 50 | 10 | |
| c87 | 50 | 10 | |
| c29 | 16 | 22 | |
| c5 | 16 | 22 | |
| c52 | 250 | 22 | |
| c52 | 250 | 22 | |
| c7 | 16 | 22 | |
| c83 | 16 | 22 | |
| c9 | 16 | 22 | |
| c66 | 16 | 33 | |
| c71 | 15 | 33 | |
| c102 | 160 | 47 | |
| c111 | 100 | 47 | |
| c3 | 16 | 47 | |
| c42 | 35 | 47 | |
| c44 | 35 | 47 | |
| c61 | 35 | 47 | |
| c67 | 35 | 47 | |
| c84 | 35 | 47 | |
| c85 | 35 | 47 | |
| c90 | 35 | 47 | |
| c1 | 16 | 100 | |
| c112 | 16 | 100 | |
| c124 | 16 | 100 | |
| c126 | 16 | 100 | |
| c55 | 16 | 100 | |
| c62 | 250 | 100 | |
| c68 | 50 | 100 | |
| c75 | 16 | 220 | |
| c78 | 16 | 330 | |
| c69 | 35 | 470 | |
| c96 | 16 | 470 | |
| c97 | 200 | 470 | |
| c115 | 180 | 680 | |
| c104 | 25 | 1000 | |
| c105 | 16 | 1000 | |
| c92 | 35 | 1000 | |
| c70 | 25 | 2200 |
Neckboard:
|
Location
|
Voltage
|
UF
|
Bipolar?
|
|---|---|---|---|
| c402 | 16 | 10 | |
| c404 | 250 | 22 | |
| c401 | 16 | 10 | |
| c403 | 16 | 10 |
Small Board:
|
Location
|
Voltage
|
UF
|
Bipolar?
|
|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | 16 | 100 | |
| c2 | 35 | 47 |
Or, if you prefer a sheet: Click Here
As for the super duper rough map, that is available below. I’ll update this when I have a pretty version
A few months ago with my Vewlix cabs I bought an MVS U4 29 Inch. I’ve had practically no time to work on it, given that I moved for a new job and got inundated with Macro stuff. Finally I’m tearing this thing apart and working on it. It was FILTHY. It needs a bit of work. Here’s what I have planned:
Anyways. Here’s a quick pic dump of the cab. Unfortunately I didn’t take a ton of photos of it dirty. But here are the pre wash and post wash pics
Before:
After:
My current issue is trying to track down a cap kit for this monitor ( The tube is a Toshiba A68KJU96X01. Chassis is a Toei Tc-a292s). I can’t find much of anything about it online. So I may have to resort to looking at each cap individually and purchasing the kit, then making a cap map for anyone else who may need a cap kit. This is my plan, but I may not be able to do this until next weekend at the earliest.
I modified a 25 inch CP overlay to (hopefully) fit the 29 inch I have. Since I couldn’t find a 29 incher. You can find it right here, if you need a 29 inch overlay. Though I’ll update this once it’s on and tested. I’m also trying to track down the artwork for the 1p and 2p start buttons, that was above the overlay. Mine broke into pieces when I took the CP apart.
In the back of my head for a while I’ve had plans to build a jamma box so I can use xbox 360 on a cabinet. Well my Vewlix came a few days ago, and I really wanted to use a 360 in it. The vewlix was wired for Chinese Jamma (which allows buttons 1-6 over one harness) so I figured why not build it for that? I can always use a JNX adapter to make it normal jamma! Anyways, I used the padhacks below that I’ve had sitting in a drawer for a year
Anways, I used a project box and a Jammaboard.com (RIP) jamma edge connector. I feel like it came out pretty nicely!
That’s pretty much it. I just wanted to throw a quick post up!
My Chinese Vewlix (Chewlix?) cabinets came today. This is a relatively short post text-wise, but I have a video on some of the fixes I’ve done so far!
Here’s quick video on some of the fixes I’ve done:
You may or may not know that I LOVE SNK and NeoGeo. There’s something strange about SNK games, some incredible charm they have and I just love it. Maybe it’s the broken English, the weird gameplay, the beautiful visuals, or just everything. But something about them I really get into. Anyways, I’ve wanted a NeoGeo AES for a very long time, I just can’t bring myself to buy one. Then it occurred to me, why should I buy an AES when the MVS games are cheaper and more abundant? I should just build a consolized MVS! Well, I’m in luck since I have an extra MV1FZ board! While it isn’t the MV1C, it is still a one slot board and should do what I want it to do! I’m sure eventually I’ll buy an AES and an Omega though. The parts I’ve chosen are as follows: