Firepower Pinball Cabinet

Looks like the problem with machine is on the CPU board. Top left of this image, RAM5101 at IC19.

40 Pin connector between the CPU and driver board also appears to be bad.

New Ram chip has been ordered and soldering new connectors now, will see if this gets the game out of diagnosis mode and into attract mode.

Pin Repair website is a great resource for those troubleshooting one of these older System 7 machines http://www.pinrepair.com/sys37/index.htm

Side Art for Upright Joust Cabinet

Side Art for the Upright Arcade cabinet, would have been nice to save the original Joust art but it was too far gone. May stencil it back on one day.

Completed this full size arcade a couple months ago. Was originally a Joust machine that had been gutted, I basically stripped all the paint and filled the wood for painting. Went with a Soul Calibur theme.

Machine is running Gameex for the front end, and several arcade and console emulators. Controls are wired up to a I-PAC for the PC interface. Originally was using a keyboard hack, but found that certain joystick/button presses would interfere with each other when playing two player games like Street Fighter 2.

Happy with how the project turned out except will probably revisit the button layout at some point.

Firepower Pinball Restoration

Picked up this 1980s Firepower machine in trade the other day. Currently the machine is stuck in diagnosis mode, using some online guides though I believe I've traced the problem to a defective integrated CMOS Ram Chip.

Chip is on its way so hope to get it installed with a new socket and be playing soon!

Once this is working and in my basement I'm looking into building a Visual Pin.

Video overview of the Cabinet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FqBXXSE8tQ

Additional Side Art

After applying the first round of art it felt like the arcade wasn't quite complete, so printed up a bezzle for around the monitor, and also a ghost for the side with the controls. Really finished everything off and the cabinet is now complete.

Cabinet with Artwork Applied

Big thanks to TPH Direct in Calgary http://www.tphdirect.ca/ for printing the artwork, they have great staff and really great ordering system. Artwork turned out really well. Making a couple more pieces for the bezel and also a smaller image for the other side, but close to complete now.

Also thanks to Trebeck who made his really awesome 8 bit looking retro graphics available on arcadecontrols.com http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=100360.0