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Found it! Coin pusher single player...
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Dave, try Mark R. he has a Kash Kong that's Sat there doing nothing, he might let it go if asked.
Try facebook fruit machine groups. pushers cause conflict as everyone wants single player which sell easily whilst multiplayer are unsellable , a lot of squabbling over lowballing as newbies think 200 because they see 6 player for sale for that and underestimate demand for single players.
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Many thanks - let me know if you do want to sell and we can talk offline. Cheers. Missus wants one for Christmas!
A warning about Kash Kong.
The main board contains a battery backed chip, which has a manufacturer life of 10 years. These machines are mostly over this age now.
When i had one, i contacted the machine manufacturer, asking for an image of the chip - the refused to supply it to me - and also in fact refused to supply a replacement.
Basically, when this chip fails, and it will, the machine will be rendered useless until a replacement is found and installed. Havent a clue as to the contents, and wether these would be interchangeable from machine to machine.
Just something to bear in mind...
The main board contains a battery backed chip, which has a manufacturer life of 10 years. These machines are mostly over this age now.
When i had one, i contacted the machine manufacturer, asking for an image of the chip - the refused to supply it to me - and also in fact refused to supply a replacement.
Basically, when this chip fails, and it will, the machine will be rendered useless until a replacement is found and installed. Havent a clue as to the contents, and wether these would be interchangeable from machine to machine.
Just something to bear in mind...
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Paul, thanks for the info - sounds totally bonkers, I hate built in obsolescence.
Not sure how crucial the battery is as the game code is on a card that slots into the ide slot on the pc motherboard. I also have a spare cage complete with all the boards that works just needs a new psu
Ahh yes the "Suicide CPU". A wonderful feat of engineering......... hmm.......
It was to protect against bootleg copies being taken of the ROMs, so they encrypted the code and put the decrypt key "inside" the CPU.
I wrote a bit about this if you're interested.. bottom of the page...
http://www.strobey.co.uk/show.php?page=jamma
Many of these roms were unencrypted and you can then replace the potted suicide CPU/battery with a normal 68000 (or whatever it is) so it may be worth checking the MAME romsets to see if an unencrypted version exists.
Tim
Did one for my boss recently for "Silent Scope". Took a while to find the image code, however could have done it myself - it's just 8 bits of data on the chip that cross-references with the motherboard as to the region of the machine.... In this case a battery backed EEprom.
nice article @strobey
nice article @strobey
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Cheers, I'll keep an eye on it. I'm also looking at building my own.
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That's a much more fun way to do it, make your own
peanut has done it the best way. a working 6 player will cost less than you can home build one. I've sold working ones this year for 125 delivered. make sure it's not a hexagonal one though lol
namco pacman pusher is almost as desirable as pinball. just sold the last of 4 I got in for xmas. all for 1k quite easily. king of pushers!
If you are looking for a Pacman pusher there is one just come on Ebay, here is linkI would have given you 1k for 4 of them
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152331487551?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
thats looking great make sure the motor can move the drawer with a full table of coins it is quite a weight
also my bottom table has 2 dome headed slot screws spaced about 6" apart in the middle this makes the coins either move to the side or makes them ride up
on the ones in front
also my bottom table has 2 dome headed slot screws spaced about 6" apart in the middle this makes the coins either move to the side or makes them ride up
on the ones in front
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I used a car wiper motor - it has loads of torque so is well up for the job. I'll get it running with a full table of coins and see how it performs. I'll see how effective the end lip is at stacking the coins up and maybe add the screws later. Cheers.
Nice work there Dave.
That's going to be excellent when finished, well done! I look forward to seeing the end result (hope you can post a video of it working when done). I have a couple of pushers and I have to tell you they are really popular with friends when they are round having a few beers!
WoW, excellent build, be great to see the final article...