A local op gave me some arcade games, he robbed the monitors out of them for other games and used the steering wheels for other games. I have a few spare monitors so I figure I'll try and get 'em going again. I'm hoping to find 4 steering wheels, two for Outrunners, two for Virtua Racing. If anyone has some steering wheels lying around, feel free to throw 'em my way, cheaper the better, I'd like to keep the project as low buck as possible. Both machines use the type of wheel with a hole in the center and a nut that holds it on, if I can find a wheel pic I'll put it up later.
Pulled the board, has a tag on it that says 'freezes in same spot', d'oh. Tried it in a random JAMMA cab and it fired up, let it run for a few minutes and it did freeze on a screen. Reset and went into test, the rom/rom (I forget which) test was passed, will take the boards apart and clean them. Anyone familiar with the System 32 boards? Anything in particular I should check out that would be causing the freeze?
Hi, check JAMMA input voltages. If the voltages not are the correct, can freeze the game or cause malfunction to the board. If the JAMMA voltages are OK, it could be a problem of the main board, not rom board.
Some JAMMA boards have heatsinks on them. Ensure that yours still has them if SEGA had them on that board. They CAN fall off when moving around... The voltages should be +5, +12 and -5 on a typical JAMMA board. My Mortal Kombat II did not give audio, or a clean picture when the -5 volt rail was not connected. Issue was a bad power supply. To me, it sounds like a heat issue you're having. These boards should never freeze.
The fact he pulled the board from the original cab which had the freezing issue and then the new cab also has the same issue - would imply that its the board that is at fault.
Did he just take the wheels, or the mech as well? If it's just the wheel, go to Happ Controls - they're under $50 a piece. Out Runners is not very common (at least, not over here) so it's worth throwing $100 at, really.
Yeah, he just pulled the wheels off the games. I've found a few but I'm intitially just trying to be a cheapskate about it, hah. Will spring for wheels at a later date, on the list of arcade projects it's in the middle, currently trying to figure out a gun issue on Johnny Nero Action Hero and I have a Cruis'n World sitting out in the box truck waiting to be brought home and messed with. But yeah, the Outrunners to me seems like such an uncommon machine that I do want to get it going again. For now it's tucked safely away in my storage, saved from the op who was going to bust it up and chunk it in the dumpster, aieeee! "The horror.....the horror...."
I have a few wheels from games that use the spline type wheel, the issue sounds like heat build up, check to see if any heatsinks have come off chips? shoot me a PM if you need parts still
