Re: Star Wars Help, I found the Force Yahoo!!

Is the upside down switch something that was maybe early in the run of
Star Wars games? Mine is S#564 and is upside down also..

Mine would play blind when I picked it up, but it did have mathbox
errors.

JB

SVerlander@aol.com wrote:

> Red 5 standing by, Yahoo! , Thanks to all of you who answered my cry
> for help I now have a working Star Wars that plays blind. Now that I
> have got to this point I can now turn my attention on fixing the
> Amplifone monitor. I hope I wont be to much of a pest if I get stumped
> and need to ask for some more help. I do try to search Google and the
> Vectorlist archives before I ask for help but it's sometimes hard to
> search though all that info. I would like to thank Matt McCullar,
> Chris Candreva and special thanks to Douglas for sending me the
> following email that explained all I needed to know. Turns out the
> test switch works backwards from what the manual says. It is wired
> just like the manual.
> Thanks again for all the help.
> Remember, the Force will be with you ,always :-)
> Sam
>
> My switch was ‘upside down’ too. I think it came that way. If you
> want to you can switch the wires so it matches what the manual says.
>
> If it’s in self-test mode when you turn it on, you get the memory
> check (16 beeps). This repeats until you flip the test switch off, at
> which time you should go into the attract mode which may be silent.
> Then when you press the coin button you should hear Obi Wan say ‘May
> the force be with you’ - but note that it may take more than one
> push to get a single credit depending on the DIP/NVRAM switch
> settings. Once you hear Obi Wan you can then press any of the triggers
> and you should hear Luke say ‘Red five standing by.’ Move the
> cursor around while firing to choose a difficulty, or just wait 8 or 9
> seconds and a game should begin.
>
> If you flip the test switch back after the game is on you enter the
> detailed self-test and calibration screens, where you can change the
> difficulty, coin options, etc., plus BIP alignment, mathbox tests,
> etc. Not much good if your screen is not working.
>
> -Douglas
>
>
>

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Received on Sun Dec 30 01:46:09 2001