Cine games, MH and other stuff..

I have been mad at work fixing a bunch of Cine games the past 2 days and I
figured I'd like to try out all my other extra boards in the process..
The cabs I hav that work right now are Armor Attack, Solar
Quest, and Warrior. I also have a Taigunner which sems to have a few
problems, The monitor needs a 7918 (getting it hopefully tomorrow) to work
and the PS in it is bad. I suspect the boards do not work all the way
though. I have a ripoff (monitor broken) and a Speed Freak (monitor and PS
broke, boards unknown) too, but they are in storage
right now, although I do have the boardsets for them here so I might as
well test them while I am in the mood.

I'd like to test the boards from TG, SF, and ripoff in my good cabs so can
I just swap them out into the Armor Attack? I ask because tailgunner for
instance has an extra
connector coming off the monitor going to the sound board.

I also have 2 Boxing Bugs boardsets and I guess I can just drop them into
the solar quest since it has a 64-intensity level monitor and just bypass
the color decoder board? What kind of spinner does
this game use? I have spinners from Tac/Scan, Tempest, TRON, and mad
planets so will any of those work? Is it similar to the steering wheel
sensor in Speed Freak?

Another thing I was wondering about is that whenever I turn on the Armor
Attack, the CRT heater gets REALLY bright, say 10 times brighter than it
should be for just a second, then it works normally. This doesn't seem
normal to me, but the heater is directly driven by the PS 6V right? I
swapped out PSs and it still happened

My Maor Havoc is broke too.. it actually works fine, but the sparkle
vector circuit is always on so everything looks like it has "static" in
it. the strange thing is sometimes it looks almost normal, and other times
it gets so bad you cant see a thing! I was talking to Jess about this, and
he told me what chips to check out but I seem to have lost/deleted the
e-mail. I have time
to fix it now so if anybody has any ideas?... or if you could tell me
again which chips to check Jess?

<off-topic>
I have a couple B/W games I need to get working.
 I also have a Gran Trak 10 I am trying to get working.. I plugged it
in about a year ago and the monitor came up and worked, but the board was
bad. I found a couple more boards and it seems like one works, but now the
monitor broke. The problem is that the black wire going to the yoke fell
off and there is all kinds of hand soldered stuff in this monitor so I
have no idea where it goes. it is a motorola monitor and I cant remember
the model # now. I will post it tomorrow if nobody knows, bbut if someone
out there has docs for this game it is a simple matter to look up..

I also have a deathrace that needs work, the monitor and PS work, but both
boards I have are broken. I have no docs on this game and I am afraid to
repair the boards (not like I could anyway, but if you have ever seen one
you would be afraid too!) There must
be at least 175 chips crammed into that thing.. Does anybody wanna work on
it? I'll pay a reasonable fee and you can keep the extra board....
.. Or I want to buy working board for it.

Thanks in advance!

Jeff

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