Arcade games and bad caps...

[Gabriel]

Re: Arcade games and bad caps...

Got hold of this arcade main unit yesterday, is's a Konami DDR board with the pcmcia card and cdrom.
I did notice only Rubycon and Matsushita caps, all rated for 85 degree.

Anyone know how to check if this thing is working ? 12V or 24V ? how many amps ?

Is this 15KHz or 31KHz vga ?

Made an account at arcade-museum but my account have not been approved yet.

[kc8adu]

Re: Arcade games and bad caps...

iirc 31.5

[Gabriel]

Re: Arcade games and bad caps...

Looks like this unit is 15KHz, can do a scart workaround to see if it works.Also found the blue security cassette so now this is complete.

[Heihachi_73]

Re: Arcade games and bad caps...

I wonder what would happen if the caps went bad inside a one-arm-bandit machine? Would it keep paying out indefinitely? Would you spin a win and it not register? Probably the worst thing that would happen is you'd put your money in, then the game would reboot and reset the credits to 0.

Don't know about traditional (electromechanical) one-arm bandits, but just about all video machines are generally similar to arcade machines. Most games will remember credits, accounting data and the last few games/hands played, while some will also replay right up to the user's last button press if it was in the middle of a game (for example, half way through a poker hand or a set of free games, or even a double up or win that hasn't been taken yet). I had a brand new Konami slot reboot on me last month at Crown Casino, immediately after cashing out a ticket (which was rendered invalid as the machine hadn't verified it due to crashing, and I had to go to the cashier to redeem it since the gaming machines and ticket readers all rejected it).