Repairs & Service
Everybody can sell Boards - however only few offer a good service for PCBs
and Cabinets. We are addicted to Arcade Video games since 1981, and since that time
we repaired, converted and installed innumerable Game Boards. We have developed
test equipments and manufactured some electronic accessories. If it concerns your
arcade collection, you are in good hands here
We repair your Video Game Boards and charge a fair price. The Boards must be connectable
to 'normal' Testequipment, iE. not use High Resolution Monitors such as Virtual
Fighter etc. In addition we reject repairs, where you can clearly see that some
other
Experts already tried their luck, normally such 'repairs' will cause
more errors than are eliminated, and a following repair is much more difficult and
therefore usually uneconomic.
A frequently asked Question is the demand for a cost estimate. Though this is understandable
it is unfortunately very hard to do, because the most expensive thing is to find
the problem or defective part, so the cost estimate would be nearly as expensive
as the repair itself. For this reason we can charge repairs only on an hourly base.
Here is the list of our costs:
- We charge a 25.00 € handling fee per Board, independently of success or expenditure.
This charge will be credited against the actual repair costs.
We repair on success basis, so if we cannot repair your PCB or no failure shows up then you
only have to pay the handling fees and the freight charges.
- At the moment we charge 42.00 € per hour spent on your work, billed in 10-minute increments.
- In order to keep the costs down please advice a maximum limit, up to which we
should try to fix the Board. Without given limit we break off the repair after 2,5
hours or 105.00 €.
Please do not send us your Boards without contacting us first,
either by
E-Mail or give us a call
Suicide Boards
Since the first Video Game Boards manufacturers had a constant head-to-head race
against Bootlegers that could even copy the complicated Multilayerboards with dozends
of Custom Chips.
By the End of the eighties then some manufacturers had the strange idea to equip
their PCBs with a battery-operated RAM in which parts of the program were stored.
That did not stop the bootleggers for very long, but it presented some big problems
for the honest buyers: if the battery were empty after 4-5 years, then the PCB was
dead. Returning it to the manufacturer was too expensive or too difficult, so most
of the expensive toys went into the dustbin.
Luckily the times have changed, some bright heads could reconstruct the missing
program code and they patched the Game ROM's so that battery and Suicide RAM where
obsolet. Often these patches require substantial hardware modifications beyond the
horizons of unexperienced collectors. We bring your Boards back to life or convert
them so you don't have to worry about the battery dying again. Here is a list of
Systems and Boards:
- Capcom Pre-CPS, like Pang/Super Pang: 69,00 €
- Capcom CPS-1 Boards, e.g. 3Wonders, Knights ot Round: 49,00 €
- Capcom CPS-1/Q-Sound, e.g. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs : 89,00 €
- Capcom CPS-2 Boards, e.g. Alien Vs. Predator: 69,00 €
- Sega System 2/16 Boards, e.g. Shinobi or Altered Beast: 79,00 €
- Seibu Zero-Team: 69,00 €
Please contact us before you send your Boards, and don't forget to enclose a failure descripton and
your return shipping address.
Adapter
Unfortunately the standarized
JAMMA connector was first introduced in 1987,
so that many popular Games like Pac mam, Galaga or Crazy Kong need and Adaptor in
order to attach it to a standard JAMMA cabinet. Such an adapter consists of a
Fingerprint
(see the picture) with 28 pins, that fits into the Jamma connector of the Cabinet,
a PCB-Edge Connector, usually 18 or 22 pin, and the wiring harness, which connects
both. With a little skill and the
necessary
parts you can solder it yourself, or just order it ready-to-go with your Board
at 49.00 € per adapter
PCB Cleaning
After many years of service in smokie clubs, Arcades or Fish & Chip Shops most Game
Boards are covered with a thick layer of dust, fat, Cola and/or other deposits.
Naturally, that is no condition for collectors, therefore we developed and offer
a unique cleaning service, with which the PC-Boards are carefully washed in a special
bath and dried afterwards. After the treatment the Boards are absolute clean and
look like as if they would have come fresh from the factory. Apart from the aesthetic
component the bath also eliminates all harmful substances e.g. Cola remainders,
which will slowly but surely corrode the thin conductive strips of the Board and
the chips connection legs, thereby destroying the PCB.
You can order our Games with the option
Washed, as well as send us your own
PCB for cleaning. The price is 12,00 € per Board, if you have to clean larger
quantities then please request our offer.